USB 2.0 has a latency of 0.125ms which is neglible in the grand scheme of things. For example with a buffer of 256 samples at 44.1 KHz you're getting 5.8ms of latency and twice that for round-trip latency, so another 0.125ms one way or the other won't really be noticeable. USB3 could in theory get lower than that, but as you can see, the latency of the USB interface itself isn't really a contributing factor.
The most important thing for latency is to disable any throttling/power saving features and make sure your DPC latency is as low as possible, so you can use lower buffer sizes without dropouts. Use Latencymon to find problematic drivers and make sure your video card, LAN/Wi-Fi adapters etc. support Message Signaled Interrupts (usually MSI can be forced via regedit even if it isn't enabled by default).
Does USB 3 improve latency for audio device?
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Does USB 3 improve latency for audio device?
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I was perusing the Steinberg/Yamaha audio units, and seems (as usual) there are as many opinions as there are arseholes about this. I have a UR22 mk11 - which I'm pretty happy with. Would be nice to have more ins but not essential for me - I get by very well with patchbays. But mulled over upgrading to a UR22C, which uses proper USB 3 (seems like a few units such as M-Audio advertise as USB C but are actually USB 2). Aside from the improved specs on the UR22C it maybe improves latency also specifically because of the USB 3.
I'm no computer tech by a long shot, so it's gobbledygook to me. But I read a few things that say USB 3 is 10x faster, which some dispute makes any difference to things like latency - but also read about polling which apparently can improve latency, as the audio device doesn't have to wait for the computer to request to do its thing. No idea if this is true or not.
Anyone here have an opinion on whether getting a USB 3 device would improve my latency over USB 2? It's not mega important to me, as I can get latency low enough not to bother me even with a midrange spec laptop nowadays but any improvement should help, if only to free up some juice on the laptop? Maybe?
TBH I've no idea WTF they're talking about. :hihi:
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