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It is interesting to hear that you have taken special consideration in regards to latency performance of these interfaces , however simply dialing the latency down is of no benefit if the actual setting is inefficient or unusable. Also , before you start quoting "real world" in such a dismissive manner - to achieve 6ms using a guitar amp simulator you will need to be running 1/2 that as its the RTL that is required there, also , any distance from the monitoring source is an additional accumulative latency , so unless you are permanently on headphones , you will need to add that additional latency to the RTL.
I am interested to hear how you qualified and signed off on your latest USB 3.2 release for Windows as the minimal latency safety buffer setting is now unusable , the low latency buffer setting shifts the lowest available setting to 128 - 10.971ms RTL , and the performance is still significantly compromised compared to the earlier drivers I tested.
I've held off reporting the results on my LLP database thread for the interim, you are welcome to contact me privately if you want to discuss my findings offline.
.. and this post just saved me from buying any Audient products. I wish more manufacturers truly understood the whole latency thing. It's mind boggling how there is only ONE COMPANY that does so.. it's ridiculous.
RME took latency and custom driver coding seriously from the get-go and even used it back then as major "feature". Not a single other company did that.. and most users didn't understand it, until they got their first RME and were able to run complex mixes that use up to 80% of their CPU capabilities, at ridiculous low latencies.
How on earth people can call themselves "engineers" and not understand these concepts is just ridiculous. Heck, I have a friggin Prism Orpheus and I have never been able to recommend it to anybody. Quite the opposite actually, I always tell everybody to stay the heck away from them. Why? Drivers.
Something that sounds great is IRRELEVANT if the unit in question can not be used in most applications. It's like getting an amazing car, with an amazing engine, with amazing drivability.. that constantly breaks down in every day use. It's pointless.
I've said it before but it needs to be hammered on various forums over and over again: Don't buy anything but RME until the other companies up their game where it counts. The drivers/latency performance.
EDIT: and the more we do things in-the-box, the more important LOW CPU + LOW LATENCY drivers become. How many of you actually use the built in sound card mixers for "zero latency" instead of monitoring through the DAW where you can add FX and stuff? Right. Nobody in their right mind.. unless you suffer latency problems. Due to the poor performance of the Prism Orpheus, I have to bounce complex mixes before recording additional takes just so I can keep the latency low for monitoring. Extremely annoying and time consuming. When I run the system with the RME HDSP 9632 there are no such compromises. I can have hundreds of plugins running, CPU screaming, and yet I can run 64 sample ASIO buffer and hit record at any time I please.
