what's your latency???

[Smellhound]

I'm just curious what latencies other people are working with...mainly because mine seems too much.
List your specs, soundcard, and "overall latency" from Live's preferences.

XP Pro
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.41 Ghz
3.25 gb ram

soundcared: Focusrite Saffire 10/10
overall latency: 15.1 ms

[Punky921]

Macbook Core Duo 2.0 Gigahertz
2 Gigs of RAM
Audio 8 DJ

156 ms latency.

I think I'd kill for 15.1 ms latency.

[Clearscreen]

toshiba qosmio f10 single core dothan 2GHZ
2Gb RAM
internal realtek soundcard with asio4all driver

7.3 ms

the figures you guys posted sound pretty high to me! are you using USB soundcards? have you optimised your systems? (see http://www.blackviper.com if you're on windows..) are you using the current drivers?i

i generally run at 128 samples (giving 7.3ms on the internal card) but i can run as low as 64 samples if necessary using my the internal card, my firewire or pcmcia cards without glitching. even my usb phase26 can run as low as 128 samples if i push it - i just have less cpu overhead.

[m:o]

@ OP
All depends on your buffer settings....
Change it down to 125 or 64 samples. Should run fine on a quad.


XP Pro
Core 2 Duo Q6600 @2,4Ghz
2GB Ram
RME Multiface

Global Latency : 7,8ms @ 125 samples buffer size

[leedsquietman]

15.1 ms is more than low enough for the vast majority of applications. Many interfaces also offere direct recording, which routes the soundcard to itself and bypasses the DAW processing which is typically just a couple of ms latency.

Change you sample/buffer size !

156 ms is way too high ! Go into your audio interface's control panel and lower the number of buffers, if you can't get reasonable performance from a maximum of 512 samples (about 24ms) then either the drivers are defective, (did you download the most recent drivers from the website of the audio interface manufacturer), or you are having problems with an unoptimized system choking your CPU.TT

You should be able to record in Live at 256 samples or less (13-16 ms depending on your system and drivers). Those with quad cores should be able to run 128 buffers (6-8 ms) no problem at all.

[the ar]

P4 3ghz,
2gb ram,
XP Pro,
EMU 1616m PCI
9ms, more or less (128 samples buffer size)

[Punky921]

toshiba qosmio f10 single core dothan 2GHZ
2Gb RAM
internal realtek soundcard with asio4all driver

7.3 ms

the figures you guys posted sound pretty high to me! are you using USB soundcards? have you optimised your systems? (see http://www.blackviper.com if you're on windows..) are you using the current drivers?i

i generally run at 128 samples (giving 7.3ms on the internal card) but i can run as low as 64 samples if necessary using my the internal card, my firewire or pcmcia cards without glitching. even my usb phase26 can run as low as 128 samples if i push it - i just have less cpu overhead.

I'm updating the driver right now actually. We'll find out I suppose.

[Punky921]

Actally is 156 samples, sorry, not 156 ms.

[leedsquietman]

156 samples should be more than sufficient for most apps, you're looking at less than 10ms latency there.

Unless you're tracking drums or trying to fry your fingers off shredding something at a million notes per second, you don't need anything lower than that. And then you probably have direct monitoring.

I mean, digidesign's MBOX is designed to run at 512 samples, 25ms !

[Punky921]

Actually I just rechecked everything. I'm running at 8.92 milliseconds latency. Thanks for the concern though!

[Atomikat]

MBP 17" 2.16
RME Multiface
6 ms

[Homebelly]

I'm just curious what latencies other people are working with...

45 years..
But i'm catching up