Hi all !
Sorry if it has been already asked but I have a wee issue with latency. My laptop is the following : Lenovo ideapad L340-17IRH Gaming 81LL0091GE gaming notebook. Pretty efficient for most of the things I wanna do.
I've started my recording hobby with a Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD and Waveform 11. It all went very well. My guitars (electric and acoustic) directly plugged to the audio interface and here goes the recording (I use Amplitube 4 for all amps and effects).
But when I press "live input monitoring" I have a tiny latency, when I say tiny, it's very small but still too much for me to hear it and false all the click.
I am taking the output directly on my headphones plugged on the computer. Means I use Windows Audio as a "Audio device type". I do not have any monitoring speakers, means I cannot use the ASIO drivers.
Anyway, I am quite new in this topic, but, do you think, if I had at least one monitoring speaker plugged to the audio interface and using the ASIO driver, it will sort out the latency issue ?
What I mean by this is that for an acoustic recording sesh it's fine, I hear what I play, but for the electric part, I cannot hear as it's not "live input monitoring" and I would love to hear what I play to improve the parts where the faults are, but without having a latency.
If you want any details about how is it setup in Waveform on the settings part I can do that and screenshot, but if it's just a matter of having a speaker plugged to the audio interface and reduce this (probably 3.0ms) latency, I will do so right away !
Hope it's all clear and any help is more than welcome !
Have a nice day y'all!
Latency under Waveform 11
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Peter Widdicombe Peter Widdicombe https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=336849
- KVRian
- 1206 posts since 29 Aug, 2014
You can actually use Asio (Asio4All) on your windows audio device, and it can make a latency timing improvement.
A low latency audio interface is probably better, but meanwhile Asio4all is free ... And the USB audio in some low-end mixers is frequently not a good thing B-)
A low latency audio interface is probably better, but meanwhile Asio4all is free ... And the USB audio in some low-end mixers is frequently not a good thing B-)
Waveform 13; Win10 desktop/8 Gig; Win11 Laptop; MPK261; VFX+disfunctional ESQ-1
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- KVRian
- 872 posts since 25 Aug, 2006
Why aren't you using the headphone output of the Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD? Is the headphone output not available to the "œZero-Latency Monitoring" on the U-Phoria?
You say "I do not have any monitoring speakers, means I cannot use the ASIO drivers." You should be able to use your headphones and the ASIO drivers unless there's something really wrong with that interface.
You should be able to send audio out of Waveform master bus using the ASIO driver enabled output of the U-Phoria, plug guitar into the U-Phoria, headphones into U-Phoria. In the U-Phoria mix control you should be able to monitor the guitar directly but without amp sims or effects alongside whatever is playing in Waveform.
Be sure you have properly calibrated the timing of the U-Phoria within Waveform with the loopback test described in the manual.
How this helps some.
You say "I do not have any monitoring speakers, means I cannot use the ASIO drivers." You should be able to use your headphones and the ASIO drivers unless there's something really wrong with that interface.
You should be able to send audio out of Waveform master bus using the ASIO driver enabled output of the U-Phoria, plug guitar into the U-Phoria, headphones into U-Phoria. In the U-Phoria mix control you should be able to monitor the guitar directly but without amp sims or effects alongside whatever is playing in Waveform.
Be sure you have properly calibrated the timing of the U-Phoria within Waveform with the loopback test described in the manual.
How this helps some.
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- KVRAF
- 1713 posts since 15 Aug, 2003 from Indianapolis
I have the 4 channel version of that interface. It works great.
You HAVE to use the ASIO driver. Plug your headphones into the Behringer interface, and turn the Mix knob all the way to the right. ASIO has nothing to do with speakers. It's the type of driver your audio interface is using. No need to download ASIO4ALL. The behringer driver is very good, and stable. Set the latency to 256 samples or less, and you should be golden. At 256 samples, I can perceive very slight latency. At 128, none.
You HAVE to use the ASIO driver. Plug your headphones into the Behringer interface, and turn the Mix knob all the way to the right. ASIO has nothing to do with speakers. It's the type of driver your audio interface is using. No need to download ASIO4ALL. The behringer driver is very good, and stable. Set the latency to 256 samples or less, and you should be golden. At 256 samples, I can perceive very slight latency. At 128, none.