Recording Latency Compensation Issue

Hello Everybody. 
I recently bought a new interface for my Sonar Platinum DAW. The reason is becaus i thought my old one, a Tascam Us-122 Mk II, had some old drivers and these are not properly supported under WIN 10. I thought this becaus when i recorded stuff on my station i always had issues with my recording delay compensation working not properly. The clips i recorded were alway a bit too late and i had to shift them after the recording. Trying to put a manual value in the field "manual offset" did not change anything. Now i bought a new Saffire USB6 interface and i got nearly the same problem: The clips i record are alway a little to early! I can do anything i like in the settings: Tick the checkbox for using the reported latency, or untick it in combination with any value entered in the field "manual offset": There is no effect. Even if i put ridicolous values in the offset, let's say 5000 samples, nothing is beeing added to the latency. Tried this with the checkbox ticked and unticked.
Anybody any clue how to solve the problem.
 
I am running WIN 10, got the latest Sonar Platinum Update, Saffire USB 6 interface, SSD Disk, 8GB of RAM, Core I7, USB 2.0 suport.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Axel 

Hi Brundlefly,
i followed your tip and downloaded the tool and did measured my latency. Result: 819 samples .
Sonar reports (actually the focusrite reports the value, if i remember right...) 962 samples.
The buffersizes used were/are the same.
 
From your calculation follows: 819 - 962 = -143 samples for the offset in sonar. Put the value there and did a recording. Result: The same. The offset is completly ignored. I can put any value in there, nothing changes. Even if i put a value, lets say 3000 samples, nothing changes when it comes to recording audio - no shifting in any direction. This behavior was the same with my old tascam. And it is the same in our Studio where we Track our Band with a RME Hammerfall internal card. I wonder if the offset value has any effect at all or if it is working for somebody? If i am right, putting a random big value there should result in a recording going "off sync" to the background track, right?
 
Cheers, Axel

Hey! I tried your tip and set up a new Project. When i try it in the new project it works as expected. I searched for diffenrences between the two and found that in the "old" project i had a couple of VSTs on the source track. Then i added some of them in the new one and then i realized that the latency compensations for the plugins is not exact. The offset value is working but the latency compensation for the plugins is masking the value because it is sometimes more "off". Since the latency compensation for the plugins is automatic - i fear i can't to anyting against it. The plugin i tried were Amplitube, and The Fab-C ...
 

No, not directly. Yesterday i did a new test-setup. 2 Audio-Tracks. on the first i recorded the metronome with the new patch-point feature. On the second i recorded the output from the first one (via connecting output and input on my sapphire box). Result: When zooming in there was no delay. Waveforms where in sync. Then i put Amplitube on the first track with a setting that minimal distrotion of the source metronome was done. Recorded on the second track again. Zoomed in and result: approximal 50 samples of delay to the source waveform. So i guess the delay compensation for amplitube is not working correctly. I checked if the delay compensation for amplitube is on in the plugin-manager, but it was. 
No, i don't use direct monitoring. Often i record a guitar with and amp-sim so i need the processed signal. The delay in that is no problem for me..