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Hi everyone,

I am planning on purchasing the Roland Gaia next paycheck as I find it extremely fun to use and I love the sound. I had a question though that I can't seem to find the answer to on the web. Hopefully you guys can answer it for me. I was just wondering what latency is like using the USB connection to your DAW to transmit audio. Is there a major latency delay created when sending midi data to the gaia and back to the daw software. IE will the latency be enough that I cannot record the gaia with drums without hearing the delay in playback?


Thanks!

I tried to think of a simple way to do this and in the end came up with this idea.

In my DAW (Reaper) I created a few bars of midi at 120bpm and drew a series of short midi notes, spaced evenly.

Then I output this via the 'usb midi' connection to the GAIA which was set up with a single oscillator square wave patch.

At the same time that this was playing I recorded the GAIA audio via the usb connection back into the DAW.

This is the visual result and there seems to be no latency that can be noticed. It's rather strange that the recorded audio appears to be slightly ahead of the midi. I am led to question that the DAW latency compensation is in fact causing this effect.

In conclusion, I have not yet run up against any latency issues with the GAIA. I run XP on an intel core 2 1.86GHz processor. Maybe other users on the group can add to this.

Hope this helps.

Wow that's pretty impressive, ive tried the same thing with other synths (recording directly in to my sound card with midi out on the software) and have gotten major latency. Your results look really impressive. So either reaper has awesome latency compensation or the gaia has a really low latency audio interface built in. Thanks for the detailed response. Either way i purchased a small mixer so I should be able to avoid latency issues.

Thanks for your help.

http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/2010/02 ... grim-tale/

Long discussion of problems

That was an interesting article. Thanks for posting the link.