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Re: Sooperlooper or Mobius? Going back to software.



I think you have to set the buffer size in both the client applications and the control panel for the interface. Not sure, but it can't hurt!

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
What is this "firefox"? Not the web browser I guess....? (sorry for
not following fully here)

Generally, on Mac the settings for whatever external audio interface
you are using is to be found within the audio application that makes
use of that piece of hardware. To take the FireFAce as an example:
it's not, as you seem to believe, in the RME console you set the
buffer - it is in MainStage, in Mobius, in Bidule, in Cubase etc. So
when using many applications together you should make sure that all of
them is set to the same audio interface buffer.

Per


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:06 PM, L.Angulo <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote:
> well it would be nice to be able to do this with the firefox,like with the RME,there you have the fireface settings you can tweak nicely but there is no way to do it with the firefox on a mac,or perhaps i am missing something,anybody using this two?
> cheers
> Luis
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>> Yes, of course it has! If you change the audio buffer in
>> the driver it
>> will affect latency. When using my RME FireFAce400 I set
>> the buffer to
>> 128 in MainStage. And the same in Mobius. And the same in
>> Bidule. If
>> different software that deals with the audio hardware does
>> that with
>> different buffer settings you get a wobbly system. In
>> Windows, on the
>> same MacBook I used to set all audio applications to 256
>> samples
>> buffer for the audio hardware. That felt the same as 128 on
>> Mac. It
>> seems Windows XP is a little faster, not having the
>> "security zone
>> buffer" of OS X. I'm not technically interested so
>> these are just the
>> way I've heard more tech minded folks explain it.
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>> Greetings from Sweden
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>> Per Boysen
>> www.boysen.se
>> www.perboysen.com
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