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Hi guys, I hope this is the right forum for this. I just published an Android app which trains relative pitch recognition. It is inspired by Joe Hubbard's article [url="http://www.joehubbardbass.com/473/ear-training/"]http://www.joehubbar...3/ear-training/[/url] [url="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kybu.keyeartraining.app"]Google Play link to the app.[/url] Any feedback is welcome.

Eugen, looking forward to hear it as well. Glad to see some Slovakians here

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1399314707' post='2443068'] Not sure what is happening with their business model. [/quote] As far as I could read the main reason for not taking orders is that he had some health issues exactly at the time when he released Subterranea. So his order backlog has grown up.

[quote name='Greggo' timestamp='1399371290' post='2443446'] Thanks for the info thats useful, if I can continue using WASAPI and reducing glitches that seems like a better option. I wonder if maybe knocking wireless antenna off whilst recording could help, as I have it on always. [/quote] I used that latency monitoring app on my PC. Bluetooth drivers were the major cause of glitches so I completely uninstalled them as I don't use Bluetooth. Also, bear in mind that you have to disable drivers in the Device Manager. Just disconnecting from a wifi net is not enough. The smaller the buffer and hence the latency, the more often an audio driver has to reach for that buffer and process it. This is kind of serialised activity in the context of all drivers. So if there is a driver like the Bluetooth one which takes too much time doing its own stuff, the audio driver does not get to process its buffer and you get sound cracks, glitches, etc ... . That latency monitoring app reports these kind of situations along with driver names. It is very useful. There is another whole story going on about IRQ (hardware interrupt handlers) sharing. Let's not get into that. Just disable hardware interfaces you don't use at all like a serial port, FireWire, ancient phone modem interface, etc ... . WASAPI is great. It is an audio API which directly talks to audio hardware. There are no middle men in that communication and that is why it is fast. I am not sure whether it works for USB devices at all, but it is not working for me. However, I sold my USB interfaces as soon as I found out I can use it with the integrated audio card line-in. I get about 2ms latency which is amazing given the price. It sounds good enough to my ears as long as I use a line driver pedal (SFX Boost). I use this setup for practicing the bass with headphones plugged in. My upstairs neighbors don't knock on the floor at 11PM anymore

In my experience you won't get USB latency below 5ms unless you are willing to spend money on some RME USB device [url="http://www.rme-audio.de/"]http://www.rme-audio.de/[/url] They do their own USB chips to get a really low latency but they charge for their products a lot. I have been using WASAPI and line-in as well and it works for me. Though, PC notebooks are nightmare for a low latency audio because of all the manufacture's drivers installed on them. Power management, Wifi, Bluetooth, etc. Try running this latency monitor [url="http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml"]http://www.thesycon....ncy_check.shtml[/url] It should tell you which driver causes glitches. You can also give a go to Echo Indigo IOX [url="http://www.amazon.com/Indigo-IOx-Digital-ExpressCard-Interface/dp/B001TNXUFE"]http://www.amazon.co...e/dp/B001TNXUFE[/url] but it is a hit or miss apparently. I have one and the latency is quite low, about 2ms (reported by Reaper) but the input is noisy. Also, don't forget to use a line driver pedal. Don't plug your bass directly to line-in.

[quote]if I end up making a loss I just see it as a rental fee in return for me getting to play with new toys all the time![/quote] I should not have read this, now I have an excuse!

[quote name='TPJ' timestamp='1395139056' post='2399009'] That bass looks very subtle but I bet it roars with those pickups [/quote] I strung it with Chromes for awhile and they sounded nowhere near to what I am used to Attack is really fast on this bass.

I thought I could use a bit of the odd morning sunshine

Brain bought a green bullet microphone off me. Pleasure to deal with.

Phil bought off me the Dean fretless. Top-notch communication and pleasure to deal with.