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Originally Posted by maddnotez
If so please explain how to do this.
Im trying to record without headphones. I want to be able to hear everything from my monitors and record without latency for video purposes.
I can run Direct Sound and do this but the latency is horrible.
Not sure how to use ASIO without the headphones.
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You are asking about 3 different things here:
1. Im trying to record without headphones. I want to be able to hear everything from my monitors.
2. Im trying to record without latency
3. I can run Direct Sound and do this but the latency is horrible. Not sure how to use ASIO
1. You can certainly record "live" in front of your monitor speakers. It will be like working with a live recording in that you will hear bleed from the live monitors recorded with your vocal. Not a show stopper at all. Many fine sounding live albums are produced this way and some major recording artists do this in the studio as well (Bono for one.)
2. Go to Reaper's Preferences/Audio/Device. This is where you select your audio interface (or aggregate of multiple interfaces) and where you set your system latency.
Check the box and set 'Request block size' to 64 or 128 to start. If you get distortion or clicks and pops, increase this value by 32 sample increments.
This is the deal. Smaller buffer size gets you closer to zero latency. (Anything 11ms or less for the total latency is imperceptible 'real-time'.) If your computer/system struggles, you increase to compensate but at the expense of latency.
So do your overdubs at low latency and then increase the buffer if needed when you start loading up on plugins and so on to mix.
3. Sounds like you are using Windows here. I'm Mac only so I can't help with the details but I believe the place to start is by downloading ASIO4ALL to replace the stock version of ASIO. I'll let a Windows user take over here.