Hi! I'm Lee. Welcome to my blog. Here we talk music: news, reviews, interviews, tips, tutorials and more. I'm also working on the upcoming podcast Influenced as a guest, writer and researcher alongside music aficionado Mark Williams and friends. Watch this space! I have been a lover of music for as long as I can remember, an amateur lyricist for 25 years, a music writer for 15 years and a hobbyist musician and blogger for almost 10 years. My tastes range from jazz to house to hip hop and I love helping artists from all genres develop their sound. My music, videos, reviews and interviews have been featured in a variety of magazines and websites, including: B-Boy Tech Report Gimme That Beat Humanhuman Audio Skills Dream House Beats Where Did the Road Go Beat Tape Co-Op Push Power Promo Drum Magazine You can find my music on Bandcamp: Monkey Mind Sounds AKA LeeTNB And you can find me on Facebook: The New Beatmaker page Lee's personal page
When I first started out, I was so ignorant about PC audio issues that I didn't even know which driver my PC had. This led to at least a day of me hitting play on REAPER's transport bar, wondering why I couldn't hear the metronome tick.
Even after I figured out which driver my PC had, through trial-and-error on REAPER'S preferences page, I didn't realise that using a driver like ASIO4ALL would help bypass the issue of latency. If you have set up REAPER or another Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and have got as far as playing an instrument via your MIDI, but have an annoying delay (or 'lag') between you hitting the keys / pads and the sound coming out - that's latency. The less latency = the smaller the delay. There are other things you can do to reduce latency, but setting up the ASIO4ALL is probably the best way to begin.
This video shows you how to install both REAPER and ASIO4ALL succinctly. Whilst the tutorial is two years old, the download and installation steps are still the same. The only difference is the edition of REAPER being used.
'Audio Stream Input/Output (ASIO) is a computer sound card driver protocol for digital audio specified by Steinberg, providing a low-latency and high fidelity interface between a software application and a computer's sound card. Whereas Microsoft’s DirectSound is commonly used as an intermediary signal path for non-professional users, ASIO allows musicians and sound engineers to access external hardware directly.' (Wikipedia, 2012)
This video shows you how to install both REAPER and ASIO4ALL succinctly. Whilst the tutorial is two years old, the download and installation steps are still the same. The only difference is the edition of REAPER being used.
Download ASIO4ALL here.
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