Latency issues with MIDI & ASIO for my drums

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I currently have a Yamaha DD-65 drum kit I put through a USB>MIDI cable to my PC. I simply run REAPER to record the drum kit using different drum profiles.

The problem I have is with ASIO. I tried to use ASIOforALL, but the latency was worse than that of the driver from my X-Fi audio card. I currently have the ASIO set to 4ms, any less than that (1 or 2ms) and I get problems with the sound crackling and hissing.

I currently have a C2D CPU @ 3GHz, 2GB of RAM running Windows 7.

My question is would another soundcard allow me to play with a better latency?

Are there any other ways to get better latency as i'm annoyed 4ms won't allow me to play faster without falling behind the metronome or track.

One other thing, I want to change my Yamaha DD-65 for a Roland kit, I presume the problem lies with the soundcard, so I will get this latency issue with a new Roland kit too?
 
That's a great starting point for me. I joined up to vdrums and will go from there.

Cheers man! - I will probably get a M-Audio Firewire thing too (my mobo supports it) and the TD12KX soon.
 
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