need info about STS latency and other issues!

Talk about the STS series of Creamware samplers.

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lagoausente
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Post by lagoausente »

I use a laptop, and want a low latency sampler. I have bee reading some topics here. It seems that the samples a loaded on the system RAM, but I have read also, that "can be used without ASIO", so, I understand that come directly from the RAM through the pci bus.
Well, what sampler playing latency?, 3ms, 5ms 10ms? Give me a number,
Depend this latency the same way that the sofware sampler based? (cpu use, programs loaded)
Also, anyone knows if would be as fast using a Magma chasis? (pci to pcmcia)
What formats can STS load? akai? giga?
symbiote
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Post by symbiote »

STS loads Akai fore sure, not sure about Giga. Latency will be pretty low, lower than anything having to go thru ASIO/WAV drivers.

The STS samplers are a bit tweaky tho, some versions have phasing problems (fixable with some small custom devices, but annoying) and the interface isn't too hot. Setting up the envelopes + filter settings + volume settings to have a nice proper loud output can be fairly annoying too. But they work once they're setup right.
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