monitor delay

[The5ifthcolumn]

Is there any way to moniter your input but not have a half second delay?? Or to be more specific can the delay caused by using software playthrough be fixed?

[waxcylinder]

The delay occurs because your computer ha to procees the sound it is recording - normally the more pwerful the computer then the shorter the delay - but there will always be a delay using software playthrough (even if you were using the fastest supercomputer in the world). It's a bit like the tiny delay you get on a two head tape recorder where the record head is slightly forward of the playback head which provides the monitoring.

One way to not have a delay is to monitor the signal prior to its input to the computer - probably by using an external soundcard (my Edirol UA-1EX allows me to do this) -or by say using a mixing board.

WC