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Re: Anybody else getting ridiculous latency with 6.4 in Reaper?

null@example.com (dazric) — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 11:56:05 +0000

Exactly, it depends on the machine (and yes, I have certainly learned a great deal from EvilDragon's posts, as I'm sure many others have ). As I say, I'm not worried. I'm confident that my computer can cope with the small-scale projects that I'm doing at the moment. At some point I may consider getting a more powerful computer if my projects become more ambitious.

Re: Anybody else getting ridiculous latency with 6.4 in Reaper?

null@example.com (Klemperer) — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 19:12:07 +0000

Just checked, Davric. (Evil Dragon is a long time Reaper-user who knows quite everything about it, so any questions you might have with PT and Reaper should be easily cleared up here). It depends on your machine. I have a today ancient 4core PC from 2012 (which is supposed to run another 10 years at least^^). Tested it shortly: this old machine can easily manage 7 instances of Pianoteq playing all at the same time the new Bechstein grand with very low latency settings of my Steinberg UR-22 USB sound card. So I guess you won't run into any problems making songs with Pianoteq in Reaper. Besides importing audio or midi Reaper has a very streamlined engine, and you can easily switch off instances of plugins until you need them again, etc.

Re: Anybody else getting ridiculous latency with 6.4 in Reaper?

null@example.com (dazric) — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:43:08 +0000

Update: as far as I can tell, the latency issue had something to do with CPU usage when setting up multiple tracks. I had been doing this to test and compare a number of different settings. As I would not normally use more than 2 or 3 tracks for recording in Reaper with Pianoteq, this shouldn't be too much of a problem for me. If I do run into difficulties, there are workarounds such as importing audio or midi, so I'm not worried.

Re: Anybody else getting ridiculous latency with 6.4 in Reaper?

null@example.com (dazric) — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:27:37 +0000

Well, this is weird. ASIO settings and Reaper version both fine. The latency I was getting was with some settings that I'd made with Pianoteq 6.3.1 - so I opened a new project, rebuilt the settings from scratch, and (touch wood) no latency! Anyway, thanks for suggestions, I will post again if I get any more problems.
(Edit: of course, when I say 'no latency' I mean 'not enough to be troublesome' )

Re: Anybody else getting ridiculous latency with 6.4 in Reaper?

null@example.com (EvilDragon) — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:25:47 +0000

Go to Reaper's Preferences->Audio->Device, and tell us how things are set up there. What's the audio system selected there? It should be either WASAPI or ASIO, ASIO preferrably.

Re: Anybody else getting ridiculous latency with 6.4 in Reaper?

null@example.com (dazric) — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:06:22 +0000

I'm in Win10. Not sure I have the latest version of Reaper, so will check that before I do anything else.

Re: Anybody else getting ridiculous latency with 6.4 in Reaper?

null@example.com (Key Fumbler) — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:19:39 +0000

Just checked that for you now.
Zero problems in that regard within Reaper VSTi and VST3 with up to date Reaper and Pianoteq and Win10.

Perhaps a Mac issue?

Anybody else getting ridiculous latency with 6.4 in Reaper?

null@example.com (dazric) — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:01:44 +0000

6.4 standalone seems to be working fine for me. But I just gave it a quick try in Reaper, and it was hopeless. Unbelievable latency! It may have been something I forgot to check, so I'll look into it. Just wondering if anyone else has had similar problems.