You're missing the point entirely. At 32 samples Live is unusable. Nothing but glitchy distorted jumbled slow playback. Have you even TRIED to use 32 sample buffer? Clearly you haven't. Doesn't even matter what the latency is at that point if you can't even hear what you're working on properly.Tarekith wrote:I'm not trying to argue, I'm not trying to troll, and I'm not being an Apple faboi, I'm seriously trying to help. I'm portable all the time, I work with just my laptop and the onboard soundcard out and about while travelling or just to get away from the studio very often. I use my MBP to DJ, to process my guitar, to play live, and to run a professional mastering studio day in and day out. The exact same MBP you guys have.
I just don't understand how this is such an issue for you, if you can still lower the latency enough to be workable. In what kind of situation do you NEED less than 7ms latency like you can get by dialing down the soundcard all the way? That's the part I don't understand. I can't think of a single instance where you NEED to go lower than that.
I understand why people are curious that the latency is higher in the newer laptops, I GET that. It's a little weird, I completely agree. But at the end of the day, if you can still reliably turn down the latency in Live to well below what the vast majority of professionals consider workable levels, so what? It's like saying you can no longer make music because the noise floor of the new soundcard is now -89dBFS, when the the old one was -90dBFS. I mean, yeah it's a little odd, but it's not something that's really going to get anywhere close to being an issue.
What are you guys doing that this is such a showstopper? How does something like this become an issue when making music on an airplane?
So if you try to use Live with an acceptable (higher than 32 samples) buffer size now the latency is too high with this machine. So sure you can turn the buffer lower and get a lower latency like you said, but now everything sounds like shit and is unusable. I really don't see why this is so hard to understand. Why don't you set your buffer to 32 samples and then try to play ANYTHING.
The point isn't that last year's model had lower latency than this one, blah blah blah. The fact is last year's model actually worked right without these issues. I'm tired of repeating myself just try it and get back to us. Everyone else is experiencing this problem except you apparently.
Who trust the technology company says "new machine's audio driver/chipset are twice as worse than previous model. Who cares!" "Because it just works!"