[Ti] GarageBand delay

[John Mistretta]

On Feb 21, 2004, at 5:01 AM, Erik Gaderlund wrote:

> Ahh, the hated 'latency' the great evil of using computers to play 
> audio.  You should look through your prefs to see if there is a way to 
> set a cache file, or buffer and that should help with latency.  . . 
> .Here's the appropriate knowledge base article: 
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=150637
>

Thanks Erik, I checked back with Griffith's iMic web site and they 
acknowledge they can't do much about the latency, so I suppose I'm 
stuck with it. Browsing Apple's GB discussion  it seems that latency is 
common with USB audio interfaces.

Curiously, the knowledgebase article references a "faster response" 
button that doesn't exist as they describe it, but the "Minimum delay 
when playing instruments live" button seems close enough.

I was able to work around the latency anyway by using the laptop sound 
out instead of the iMic's sound out. Saves the output signal a trip 
thru processing thru USB, I guess.  Lucky for me I have that output, 
should have thought of it sooner. . .

GarageBand is pretty neat, I've played with it for hours. It so much 
easier to make bad music now than it used to be . . . <grin>