From groovecake@yahoo.com Fri Sep 06 07:23:57 2002
Subject:RE: A Better Clone? - In praise of the B4

Deke,

Have you tried the Quattro yet?

Mitch
--- Deke The Geek wrote:
> Actually, usb-audio.com has an ASIO driver for the
> Extigy, and it did get
> down to around 7-10 ms (with the demo driver), but
> their current driver
> doesn't support the MIDI ports on the Extigy, which
> defeats half the purpose
> of having the Extigy in the first place.
>
> Deke The Geek
> -jaded-
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul1000au [mailto:p.alexander@ecu.edu.au]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 1:16 AM
> To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CWSG] A Better Clone? - In praise of
> the B4
>
> Well - looks like you found the problem. The Extigy
> is not yet ASIO
> 2 compatible; and don't think of using any device
> that is not. The
> latency is just not going to be low enough to use
> live.
>
> Try something purpose built for serious audio:
> Egosys, Edirol, M-
> Audio (Midiman) and lots of others all make suitable
> USB units that
> have very low latency, low noise and lots of other
> good features.
>
> P
>
> The issue is not
> --- In CloneWheel@y..., "Deke The Geek"
> wrote:
> > >Let us know what you find out about the Extigy,
> > >OK?
> >
> > The best I could get from my laptop was 40 ms.
> There are two sound
> drivers
> > available in the dropdown list of output devices
> (actually four if
> you count
> > the built-in soundcard)... MM and DirectSound.
> These results were
> achieved
> > using the DirectSound device for the Extigy.
> >
> > The drivers _are not_ ASIO.
> >
> > The Extigy, while a cool toy, will be happily
> finding its way back
> to Fry's
> > tomorrow.
>
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