Antes que nada disculpen que está en inglés, pero lo escribí para enviar al soporte de Tascam y ya le hago copy/paste  (me dió fiaca y seguro todos entienden). Muchas gracias desde ya, es mi primer post en el sitio! Abrazos
 grax
Hello,

I have an e-drum Yamaha DTXplorer and a Toshiba laptop with 2Gb RAM running Cubase LE5 and Superior Drummer.  I always used a MIDI-USB cable from the Yamaha, the internal "Realtek" card with ASIO4ALL and had acceptable results. Anyway I decided to buy a TASCAM US144 MKII to have "zero-latency", improve quality and be able to record better.

Well, yesterday it was my first day with the TASCAM US144 MKII and I am sure that I can have better results because I am not happy with it so far (latency is worse than ever).

This is exactly what I did:
After installing the TASCAM drivers (version 2.03 for Windows XP 32bits), rebooting and checking the TASCAM correct setup in "Sounds and Audio Devices", I conected a MIDI-MIDI cable from the DTXplorer to the MIDI IN of my TASCAM device and set the "MON MIX" in the TASCAM all to "Computer" in order to receive only the audio coming from the computer (as I only want to listen to the sound/samples coming from the VST instrument "Superior Drummer").
In Cubase I set "TASCAM" as the Device and in the TASCAM control panel option I set "low latency".
After all that, I started playing with my phones on coming from the phone output of my TASCAM and there is a really percibable latency that I did not have in the past.
I am sure that there is something wrong. It cannot be worse now than before when I used the internal card.

Doubts:
* Could you please tell me what is the best way to conect (hardware wise) my "Yamaha DTXplorer" to my laptop with "Cubase LE5" and "Superior Drummer 2.0" using my TASCAM US144 MKII to have the lowest possible latency?

* In Cubase, do I have to set the Device to TASCAM US144 MKII or I leave it with the ASIO4ALL?

* Is there an ASIO Driver for the TASCAM or the drivers (version 2.03) that I downloaded from the TASCAM website are the ASIO driver already?

* Should I uninstall ASIO4ALL or do I leave it there?

As you can see I am new into this world. I use to play acustic drums some years ago and now I am back to the hobby with e-drums.
I am learning about Cubase, audio devices, MIDI, etc.  Everything is new to me.

Thank you so much!
Regards,
Mariano

 grax