Tips for getting low audio latency in UAE?

[spihunter]

TheGoose and I were just talking about this the other night. It seems no matter how fast your PC is, sound emulation on UAE will never be as good as a real Amiga. Something about the paula and custom chips makes switching samples and play back rock solid with Octamed.

Even the signal coming from the audio ports of a real Amiga are much hotter then any PC sound card I've ever used. when I run audio out of an A1200 into my USB tascam board on my Mac I never need any kind of pre-amp or signal booster. It's almost too hot!

Yup I knew that comment would come sooner or later.

[spihunter]

I'm talking about when you use the numeric keypad to switch what current sample is active
that you can play on the keyboard. On a real 030/A1200 it's instant to the point where I can almost play it like a live instrument. Under UAE its seems to lag.

Hmmm....well, so far I haven't had any problem with OctaMED under emulation.  I haven't really stressed it with quickly switching samples or anything though....I generally use one or two samples per channel on a 4-track MED/MOD.  Could you elaborate on what you mean by the switching sample problems you've encountered?

Under UAE OctaMED has seemed pretty good sound wise.  When I'm done composing a song in it I use OctaMED SoundStudio's 16-bit file mixdown function - I did this on my real Amiga and now in UAE to render the final song to a 16-bit hard drive file.  So in the end I was not playing the output through Paula anyway.

But....I am keeping around several real Amigas for the day when/if I have unlimited space to set them up (right now it's just not possible!).  Then I suppose I could set up a dedicated A500 just for OctaMED.

[spihunter]

I agree. I've seen it running on A A1000 with fast ram and it was sad.

An A1200 with an 030 and 16mb+ of ram is perfect.

Not sure which version you plan to use, but OctaMED Sound Studio on an A500/A2000 is not an enjoyable experience.  68000 cant cut it.