Sound card to enhance USB mic

[Kphu]

I have the special edition Toshiba Satellite

Processor 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5750
Memory 4GB at 667MHz DDR2
Hard drive 300GB at 5,400rpm Chipset Intel 965GM Express
Graphics Intel GMA X3100 (integrated)

and i use a M-Audio USB Producer microphone and Adobe Audition to record my music.

so heres the problem, whenever i record vocals, theres a slight lag. Im thinking its my comp's audio card causing it and was thinking about getting a notebook sound card that goes into the EX54 slot to fix the problem but then i realized, the mic connects via USB and the card only has a speaker and mic jack, not a usb. so if i got the card, would it still fix my problem even though the mic is still connected to usb?

[Kphu]

anyone?

[bigBonehead]

Ah.... you do realize that a USB Mic bypasses yer Sound Card.... right?

What yer experiencing is called Latency. Google is my friend.

[Kphu]

and google hasnt come up with any answers. thats why i came here for an answer. I know it's latency, im trying to find a solution to have ZERO latency

[paul9]

Try a cheap mic to be certain, but if it is a "normal" type soundcard, I think it would cut out the lag you are getting on the USB mic.
Otherwise, good mixing software should have timing functions to re-synchronise your audio.

[Kphu]

i use adobe audition but i cant figure out the exact time delay and i dont know how to to adjust the timing stuff. ill look it up. my usb mic has a setting thing where i can adjust latency, ranges from 128-4096. it says to set it low to lower latency. i have it on 128 and still have lag.

[bigBonehead]

First of all... it's technically impossible to get zero latency.
Here's a tool that will tell you what your latency is: DPC Latency Checker (from Google)

Next, from Google: ASIO4ALL - Universal ASIO Driver A universal latency reducer for WDM based computers and Sound apps.

Google is my friend...