Amplitube, am I using it wrong????

[johnny5]

I love the whole idea of Amplitube but I have never been able to use it effectively. I think it sounds pretty good, looks great, and lots of fun details but in practice, it's a PITA. My biggest issue is that I can't PLAY guitar and HEAR the tones at the SAME TIME because of the latency issues.

I recently got a new PC with I5 chip, tons of ram, Win7 pro 64 bit. and it's still super slow. I run it as a plug-in in Cubase.

I figured that's just how it was but yesterday I got the Amplitube app on my iPhone and I have been riffing along all day. What the....?

I am confused now. How is it that my tiny hand-held phone runs this program faster than powerful computer? I figure it's most likely user error.

Can anyone help me here? There's got to be something I am doing wrong.

Thanks

[retro]

How are you connecting your guitar to your PC?

An interface with good drivers would be good.....and optimizing your PC for audio also.

I don't know or use PC's but there is a thread here that may be helpful.....

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=865345

[johnny5]

thanks for the link. I am using a Focurite Saphire something or another. fire wire connection.

[retro]

Assuming you have the current drivers and set your buffers for minimal latency...I would assume it is down to optimizing your PC for audio then....

Since I don't know PC's I have no idea if Win7 64bit is of any special consequence or consideration with your set-up or not. Or if their is a FW chip issue....

I'm sure the PC guys will chime in.....

[B Money]

my Cubase was super slow until I installed the correct ASIO driver. Don't use the default Win7 ASIO driver, it introduced a lot of latency into my system. I use a Presonus Inspire interface and once I installed the Presonus ASIO driver, all was well.