I wish I could get away with working at 64 samples - I'm always asking too much of my CPU for that to be doable. So yeah, anything that provides less latency at 128 or 256 would be a boon for me.foosnark wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 11:46 pmFor "only around $300 more" you could buy two of the Behringer... in fact I think I paid $250 for mineVectorman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2019 5:58 pm from looking at a chart of RT latency tests on various interfaces, it appears one can get anywhere from 5 to 7ms less latency from a MOTU or RME interface at a given buffer setting. With the MOTU Ultralite AVB being only around $300 more than the Behringer, I think I'm leaning that way for my next interface.
Not sure how those latency tests are set up, but I routed a click through Bitwig FX Grid out through my UMC1820 to an Expert Sleepers ES-3, back into an ES-6, mixed it and timed the latency between the original click and the return. I'm getting 8.0ms (353 samples at 44.1kHz) with an ASIO buffer size of 64 samples. I'm not sure if going through ADAT & the Expert Sleepers stuff adds any appreciable latency.
That's plenty fast enough for me...
Actually, another cost-effective alternative that I'd forgotten about is getting an RME Digiface and then adding analog I/O as needed via Behringer ADA's or anything else that can pipe in via ADAT.
At any rate, it's great that we have so many choices at different price points now. When I started out, I think about the only "affordable" reasonably pro-quality interface was a Digidesign Audiomedia NUBUS card that offered 2-in/2-out at 16-bit for around a thousand dollars. And of course I was constantly having to stop and shovel more coal into the steam engine to keep the gear powered up.