OSCulator is so much fun...I bought a license and my daughters and I are having a blast playing music in GarageBand with our GHWT controllers, particularly the drums. We use OSCulator on a 1 year-old Mac Mini to connect the Wiimote on the GHWT drum controller to GarageBand using MIDI. The Wii Drums Example connects just like it should, right out of the gate.
Unfortunately, there is a bad, bad lag between the drum hits and the Mac audio. When we play eighth notes at 120 beats per minute, there is a leftover eighth note that echoes after the last drum hit on the pad. I tried reading the FAQ which says:
Some settings, however, can affect the latency and jitter. In order to get the lowest latency, you will have to trade smoothing for speed. Set the smoothing at zero, and you get the raw response with no delay.
If you are using the Wiimote to trigger sounds on your computer, you should also check the size of the audio buffer, as this is the first cause of latency on computers used as synthesizer modules.
If you are using the Wiimote to trigger sounds on your computer, you should also check the size of the audio buffer, as this is the first cause of latency on computers used as synthesizer modules.
I have no idea how to "set the smoothing to zero"...there isn't anything the leaps out of the OSCulator GUI that I can find. How do I try that?
I changed the setting on GarageBand preferences to use the large audio buffer as the FAQ suggested, but it made no difference.
Could it be that my Bluetooth connection has a lot of latency? I recently worked on a project using Lego Mindstorms controlled via Bluetooth from a Mac mini and we encountered terrible lag with the lousy Bluetooth hardware on newer Macs. The Bluetooth connection on our 3 year-old Macbook was actually must faster.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts you folks have that might help!
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