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This way, the Windows will not automatically lower your CPU speed or disconnect USB ports to preserve battery. That said, you'd do good to minimize CPU throttling by going into the Power Options and Advanced Power Options and select all High Performance options on AC you can. Okay, venting mode off.Ĭonsidering the Surface is a portable computer and is equiped with an ultralow voltage Intel CPU, everything is set to consume less power than on a normal computer. I guess that's the downside of depending on some years-old freeware to get the OS to do what it should have been able to do in the first place.)Īnd yes, I'm sure some of the frustrations come from a general lack of familiarity with the Windows environment, despite using it on and off since 3.1. experimenting much with ASIO4ALL settings seems to quickly make things unstable, requiring reboot to get things working right again. I'm also open to tips on lowering latency besides just playing with buffer size (which, confusingly, can be set in both ASIO4ALL *and* GigPerformer, and neither picks up the setting you make in the other). Though as long as I"m getting an interface, I wouldn't mind something with more than 2 channels of audio output, so I'm open to that option as well. I just need something minimal and simple that will let me do what I'm already doing on the Surface itself, except without the latency. After all, functionally, just the single USB port on the Surface worked fine for me. I don't need it to have any audio inputs. but I wanted the tablet form factor for live use, and I wanted to run a couple of less common VSTs that are Windows only.) Which brings me to my question:Īny advice on an interface for this? I'd like it to be as small/portable as possible, taking power via USB from the Surface (which itself will be plugged into AC).
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Yeah, I knew that was probably going to be the case, but I'd hoped it would be "close enough." (Using my Macbook headphone jack is fine. Anyway, in the end, I did get at least most of it working the way I want, but even with ASIO4ALL, I'm getting too much latency out of the headphone output. And I was using a pen to navigate the small controls on the screen, but some buttons didn't like the pen and wouldn't activate until I used my finger instead, so I had to keep switching. pick the option to make apps bigger, and some of the apps end up positioning important controls off-screen. it's a lot of effort and there are so many places you can screw up, I was reminded of a reason so many hardware folk are resistant. and whoops if you double-click something to open it when you were supposed to be sure to extract it first. zip, necessitating downloading an unrar program. even a mix of files that were compressed rar vs. a not-straight-forward ASIO4ALL configuration. things that require a physical iLok, others that are okay with a soft iLok registration. I've got stuff that requires UVI Workstation, XLN stuff which has its own approach, stuff that wants Kontakt player (which I haven't gotten to yet).
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but onward, I'm just scratching the Surface.) Continuing in the list of setup complications. (Boy, the Mac spoils you in file management, between things like spotlight search and the ability to drag a file from the desktop into an app's dialog box, and the ability to sort however you want without some insistence on grouping folders above files in your alphabetical list even when you say you want no grouping, and I can't believe all these years later, you still sometimes have to actually type a path. Okay, I got a little ambitious in trying out so many different VSTs, but there is just so little consistency in installation procedures and interfaces, there are so many file formats, you get asked different questions, you have to manually move files into specified folders (or tell your environment-in my case, Gig Performer-to look in different places), there's a lot of clumsy folder navigation. That said, as much as I admire the hardware, I had forgotten what a nightmare setting things up in Windows is, compared to iOS or Mac.
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I have to say, I love the form factor and the keyboard feel (for what it is), and wish Apple had done something like this. I ended up (as some suggested) not even worrying about my Surface Pro question discussed at because I was able to pick up a Surface Pro 4 with 8 GB RAM at a really tempting price, and have been playing with it this weekend.