Focusrite scarlett

Greeny
Hi guys, can anyone who is using one of the scarlett interfaces let me know the kind of round trip latency you are getting, preferably at both 44.1k and 96k. I'm just about to get an ableton push and want to be able to take it out with my laptop, my head wants an rme baby face but unfortunately my Mrs doesn't :P
 
I am happily unable to detect any latency on my desktop system @4.5ms round trip but I know thats a big ask of a fairly cheap usb interface, I'm looking at the 2i4 and it seems to have everything I want/need for mobile if it can do low enough latency for me to not feel it on my push.
 
PS, I have a focusrite VRM box (I dunno if they have some kind of unified driver?) and I can get that stable at around 7ms on the laptop I guess if I can match that or better with a scarlett I am pretty much sold.
 
Cheers, Greeny.

I'm extremely pleased with the 2i4 and haven't had any latency issues (any other issues for that matter) with it......I can't remember exactly what the latency was (I think ~ 6ms @ 48k). The good thing about the 2i4 is that it has:
Direct Monitor Function
Turn the direct monitor control on the front panel of your Scarlett 2i4 and you will hear what you are recording through your speakers or headphones, without the signal having to go through your Mac or PC. This avoids the possibility of latency (introduced by your music software), which can be distracting while recording.

Mesh cheers for the info, I could live with 6ms!
 
Cheers Johnny I know RTL isn't great (as pci/pci-e) on the cheaper usb interfaces but as I say, I will be a single man if I buy a babyface which a bit of research tells me is the best for the job. And yeah I'll be wanting to do live monitoring through my daw with FX which is the problem really. Gonna pick up the push at the end of next week and test out with my VRM box, if I can live with that @7ms then the scarlett should be good! (btw my laptop is a fairly new quad core so running at lower buffers is no problem generally). The saffire would be useless to me unfortunately cos I like that 4.something ms latency on the pro 24 but alas my laptop has 3 usb3.0 ports and not much else - no firewire.
 
If not then I guess I'll be secretly saving the pennys for the babyface and hope the mrs doesn't ask what it is/how much it costs when it comes through the door - the GAS bill is already quite high this year and I aint talking hot water and central heating :D
 
EDIT: I should have probably mentioned for recording guitar and vox I can use the direct monitor no problem, most of my guitar parts are clean anyways so hearing the direct signal wouldn't be distracting, when I am on the push however I dont wanna be feeling latency on the pads, if I am I shall be attaching it to my desktop and leaving it there til I am the proud owner of an RME :)

I aint interested in the saffire 6 mate, I did look at the list yeah but even its lowest latency there is too much, the firewire ones are alot better in that regard. Also the saffires converters aren't as good as the scarlett from what I read online.
 
I did a bit of research on the presonus stuff too and (I dunno how new the info is) but apparently that great latency doesn't work the same outside of studio one and I am pretty much stuck with ableton live for the purpose of the push.
 
I am not in a huge rush to get mobile with it anyways so before I get rash I will fire up the vrm box on 48k for ~6ms latency and see how that feels on the pads, I can make a better informed decision from there. The guitar/vox stuff is very secondary to me aswell, I am more likely to be doing that stuff on my desktop where I have solid latency already.
 
Elsewhere I've been lead to believe the steinberg UR22 is about as good as you can expect for the money, might be worth me having a closer look too since it has everything I need and is cheaper than the scarlett.
 
Choice is great, but sometimes it sends me on a wild  goosechase :D
 
Thanks for the info/help mate.

A quick google will reveal that in this case the performance is different with any DAW that isn't studio one.
 
Difference in converters is real, I have 3 interfaces and I can hear the difference between them, it isn't night and day but its definately different. It doesn't matter in the case of the 6 though since the latency is too much anyway - I really wish my laptop had firewire :/