cinciredsfan11
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Greetings FPs,
Im in the market for a midi keyboard controller. I would like to start learning to play some keys, and get away from having to point and click my way through all my songs. This will be for my home setup, and I will not be playing live. I intend on getting an audio interface at some point, but want to save up and purchase a quality one that I do not really have the money for currently. So with that being said, I am looking to get by just plugging my midi keyboard directly into my computer for the time being. So my biggest obstacle from what ive gathered seems to be latency. I am not looking to get ridiculously low, but something that is acceptable to record my patterns at home. I have a pretty new desktop computer, 3rd gen i5, 8 gigs ram, but im using the MBs onboard audio (Realtek HD). I use FL Studio, and am planning on using ASIO4ALL. I tried to get an idea of the latency I would face by using my computer keyboard as my midi controller with ASIO4ALL, so I ran DPC latency checker with my one of my heavier beats loaded into FL, and recorded additional parts using my computer keyboard and I didnt see any noticeable latency. The max latency was 264 us on DPC. Now granted my computer keyboard is connected via ps/2, and I will be using a midi keyboard connected via USB. So the connection is completely different, but ultimately im wondering if this is a relatively good indicator of the latency I will be facing with my midi keyboard? Thanks
Im in the market for a midi keyboard controller. I would like to start learning to play some keys, and get away from having to point and click my way through all my songs. This will be for my home setup, and I will not be playing live. I intend on getting an audio interface at some point, but want to save up and purchase a quality one that I do not really have the money for currently. So with that being said, I am looking to get by just plugging my midi keyboard directly into my computer for the time being. So my biggest obstacle from what ive gathered seems to be latency. I am not looking to get ridiculously low, but something that is acceptable to record my patterns at home. I have a pretty new desktop computer, 3rd gen i5, 8 gigs ram, but im using the MBs onboard audio (Realtek HD). I use FL Studio, and am planning on using ASIO4ALL. I tried to get an idea of the latency I would face by using my computer keyboard as my midi controller with ASIO4ALL, so I ran DPC latency checker with my one of my heavier beats loaded into FL, and recorded additional parts using my computer keyboard and I didnt see any noticeable latency. The max latency was 264 us on DPC. Now granted my computer keyboard is connected via ps/2, and I will be using a midi keyboard connected via USB. So the connection is completely different, but ultimately im wondering if this is a relatively good indicator of the latency I will be facing with my midi keyboard? Thanks