setup - reason with sound card

[jm245]

Hello,
I am totally new and I apologise for my amateurish question..

I would like someone to help me on the following issue:

I own a soundcard Focusrite 6i6 2nd gen and is connected via usb to my laptop.
Which of the following options should I choose about the soundcard (see pic below)




Also, which values in ''ms'' and ''buffer'', should I choose in order to have no latency and nice quality sound at the same sound?




thank you in advance

[SA Studio]

I'd go with the USB option since you're connected via USB.

May also wanna make sure your Focusrite is set to 48000 for the sample rate is one thing I notice. You may have changed that in Prefs or it auto-changed that for you when it ID'd the interface.

[jm245]

thank you for your kind reply.

As you can see I have the options ''ASIO focusrite USB'' , ''DX Focusrite USB'' , ''MME Focusrite USB''
which one should I choose?

As for the latency, in order to achieve very low latency, what should I do?

[aeox]

that's the right driver. as far as buffer size, it really depends on what you are using Reason for. if you are making heavily synth based music, you will probably want to drop the sample rate down to 44.1 and set the buffer size to 512 samples. the higher the sample rate, the more cpu it's going to use.

edit: and the lower the buffer size = more cpu being used

[aeox]

edit: never listen to me, ever! i'm an idiot.

[Oquasec]

Humans can feel more than below 20ms

[Sorped]

I'd say go with the ASIO-one

[SA Studio]

thank you for your kind reply.

As you can see I have the options ''ASIO focusrite USB'' , ''DX Focusrite USB'' , ''MME Focusrite USB''
which one should I choose?

As for the latency, in order to achieve very low latency, what should I do?

Definitely the "'ASIO focusrite USB" ~ Sorry I didn't clarify that - the one you have highlighted in the pic is the one you want.

[Socram]

humans can barely notice 100ms of latency anyway.

This is very wrong, a tenth of a second (100 ms) is definitely noticeable in a live recording setup. Sub 20 is what you want, ideal sub 10

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[aeox]

i said barely

[aeox]

humans can barely notice 100ms of latency anyway.

This is very wrong, a tenth of a second (100 ms) is definitely noticeable in a live recording setup. Sub 20 is what you want, ideal sub 10

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i had to recheck my settings, which i thought i had settings which made me have around 100ms, i actually start projects with 17ms and work my way up to 100ms when the cpu starts to choke. so i am indeed very wrong, thanks for pointing that out, i wrote that right before dozing off

[ejanuska]

Go with the setting that gives you the Reason sound.

[Socram]

Go with the setting that gives you the Reason sound.

Nice post man, real quality help here.

[aeox]

Go with the setting that gives you the Reason sound.

Nice post man, real quality help here.

still better than anything i've posted on this website xD

[ejanuska]

Go with the setting that gives you the Reason sound.

Nice post man, real quality help here.

Yeah, I couldn't resist.
But it seemed like the issue was sorted out anyhow and I didn't have anything useful to add, but I did have something funny (IMO) to say.

[Oquasec]

Oh guys here's a quote from a funny fellow I know

"The popularity of Macs for music production is actually based upon the fact that they were used to control external DSP hardware which did all the heavy lifting for the computer, consequently many uninformed people opted for under powered Macs to run software that relied upon native processing because they didn't understand that in big studios the processing was being done by powerful Pro Tools DSP hardware and not the wimpy Mac used to control it.....that's where the whole "Macs are better for music" halo effect comes from......the other cognitive error people make is assuming that when they replace an old PC with a new Mac that it's the brand that makes it better rather than the fact that they are merely replacing older technology with newer technology.....same goes for replacing outdated tower systems with laptops and inside-out all-in-one computers which are actually crappy in comparison to a new tower system, in other words they only see the improvement in comparison to the old shit they are replacing."

So a universal misunderstanding of the whole mac vs pc debate in effect was summed up in a long paragraph by hollandturbine.