MIDI is definitely affected by the audio drivers, if you want to get sound.

The MS GS WaveTable is a software synth that when used to play real time MIDI input is slow to respond.

The Coyote WS is a DXi wrapper for the MS GS WaveTable. So if you want to reduce your latency, and assuming you have ASIO drivers for your sound card, or if you don't you could try using ASIO4ALL), I would set the audio drivers to ASIO and reroute MIDI to the Coyote synth (or any other general MIDI DXi/VSTi softsynth you may have).

This is really important mainly for live input or playback. If you are just playing already recorded MIDI data, the latency is still there, but you just don't notice it because once the song starts playing, everything is delayed by that same amount, so it sounds fine (who cares if the song didn't actually start until a few milliseconds after hitting "play").

Anyway, that's my suggestion for live MIDI input.

John

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