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I’m using the On-board HD audio by Realtek. it’s the same codec used in THOUSANDS of motherboards etc. and it’s 7.1 I’m sure full duplex. what troubles me is with the amount of processing power, and ram and SATA2 HDD access, there shouldn’t be any latency at all. Maybe this onboard sound, as sophisticated as it is. isn’t powerful enough or I’m missing something. here’s a few technical details:

1. I MUST use the ASIO dll driver with it’s offline EXE properties program. If I use just the soundcard (onboard) the latency is massive. at least a 1-2 second delay for each pad hit. even using the ASIO though I still get a small bit of latency. JUST ENOUGH to notice it with each strike of the pad and the sounds lag just a bit, and sometimes don’t play correctly. now I tell you, no antivirus, no internet connection after authorization etc. the machine even using Vista has all drivers and everything clean with no issues, no bloatware as it’s an OEM install, etc. so not only am I having minor latency issues, mixed with miss-hits or miss-fires of the audio files for some reason I think it’s latency related, I have one more problem to go with it.

The problem with onboard audio, they are general purpose audio devices not natively supporting ASIO and not aimed at musical real-time live performance. Sometimes ASIO4ALL will help but there are other issues. For example if I use my laptop onboard sound on a very loud pro sound system and I use the laptop power supply, I will get a loud “hum”.

My opinion is if you want to use pro music/audio softwares for real-time purpose and use your computer as a soundbank in real-time, get a pro/semi-pro sound device that support ASIO natively. There are USB devices that are quite affordable.

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