Using USB Keyboard with FL Studio

My keyboard connects to the computer on a USB 2.0 platform, yet when recording directly to FL Studio 8, I experience latency of at least half a second between the keypress and the note being recorded (and played).

I used Anvil Studio instead and this rectified the problem, partly. However, it still is very hard to remain in time due to this latency.

Any help? Is it the keyboard?

I'm using a YAMAHA DGX-220.

You need to adjust your latency settings in the options of whichever DAW you're using. It has nothing to do with the keyboard itself; latency is affected by the efficiency of the MIDI driver and the buffer/latency settings of the software. My keyboard is also connected to my computer via USB, for example, and I have completely imperceptible latency.

Alright, I fixed the latency by reducing the directsound buffer to around 16ms, however, now I have horrific crackling during the song preview.

I'm assuming my computer just isn't fast enough at 2.0 GHz and 1 GB RAM to play it back without hitches.

There any way to somehow keep everything intact but stop the crackling?

Edit: Wait, I just enabled ASIO4ALL on my computer (my soundcard has no idea what ASIO is, nor how to use it) and it seems to have corrected the buffer to around 416 (10ms) samples with no crackling. It's so... Beautiful. 8D

Thank you for helping!