LatencyMon: Anybody here used it?

 
Just got an RME FireFace UFX Plus. One of my friends over there suggested using Latency Mon to check for system readiness.
Just need to make sure there is a legitimate site out there before installing something on my machine.?

Anyone here used it before?

Thanks

The plus looks super cool. All Madi and stuff. :-)
 
Don't miss out on RME DigiCheck. Very cool and useful tool.
 

True, you do not have to run Sonar while running latency monitor to tell if it will work.

That said, you should be able to have sonar running and be mixing etc and not have latency monitor detect an issue.

Once I had an issue where arbitrary clicks occurred. So I ran latency monitor with Sonar until I heard the click then looked to see the driver with the greatest latency. It was the mouse.

This pointed me in the direction of the fix.

I assume you're talking about the page faults counter. Yes, that does appear to be broken. Most likely, some recent Windows update broke it. The program's been playing catch-up with Windows from day one.

When LatencyMon indicates some problem ("red"), DAWs have hard time to work with reasonable settings. So that is an essential tool to check the system readiness. But note that is not always sufficient tool to understand all audio related problems.
 
btw I use relatively old version on Win10 with all updates, works fine...

Funny, when I try and launch this program it opens and is present in my taskbar but I can't bring up the UI. It just doesn't show.
 
BUT, when I click on the "in depth latency tests" shortcut it also creates that opens up what looks like a limited UI, which doesn't have many of the tabs present that I See in videos. What am I doing wrong?
 

Vas
Is there a good alternative to Latency Mon or other utility to use for audio computers? 

The free DPC Latency Checker used to be a great alternative.  The website gives easy-to-follow instructions that are a good read even if you don't use the utility.  It still works but is best on Windows 7.  For more recent versions of Windows (8, 8.1 and 10) it gives readings that are unnecessarily high.  They are aware of this but haven't updated it.  By reading high, it is misleading but actually more effective as a test,
 
By reading high, it is misleading but actually more effective as a test, because if you are still in the green, with less cushion, you should really be fine for digital audio.
 

abacab
... think the term "page faults" is a bad choice of language for something that occurs in normal operation on a modern computer.  

Yeah, it's one of those terms that's been around since the 50's and has confused computer science students ever since. Kind of like the word "argument" (meaning data pushed onto the stack to be read by called functions), which sounds unnecessarily aggressive. But "fault" is technically correct, as it refers to a process that fails to complete (e.g. trying to load data from cache or the paging device that isn't there), requiring mitigating action. Failures can be expected or unexpected, rare or routine, but they all result in triggering a fault handler. 
 

Failures, not errors.
 
Some things you expect to fail, and prepare for when it happens. It's why you keep extra guitar strings in your case.

Okay here is my LatencyMon Story:
Please do not feel sorry for me. :(

After I made this post asking about LatencyMon, I downloaded the software and ran it.
As you may have guessed, I got the Red Text:

Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks.

I am currently using RME FireFace UFX Plus and so I posted about this in their forum:
See thread here: https://www.forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?id=26073
 
Anyway, I did everything in the world and this problem would not go away:


Disabling C State or individual C State, like C1E, if you can think of it, I did it.
Nothing works, still the same issue. I even perform the changes one at the time as recommended but it did not help.


Feeling frustrated, I open the Tower and disconnected all Peripherals. I removed the Network card and the SATA Card and all extra hard drives, leaving the system almost completely bare. I also disabled all USB except for the Sonnect Allegro 3.0 USB PCI Card.

I also disabled Audio and Network cards, and also Firewire in the BIOS.
Still the same problem. Next I removed the NVidia Driver, same problem, finally, I started Windows in selective startup so that only important services are started but same problem.


Finally, I gave up and left the studio.
Later yesterday I was logged into one of my Servers running Windows Server 2012 64 R2. I decided to install LatencyMon on the server to see what will happen. In fact, I have been contemplating running my DAW on Windows Server instead of Windows 7.


Historically, all of my work is done on Servers, I do not use Windows 7 or any other Windows OS for anything, except for Music.
So when I ran LatencyMon on the Server it was Green and Suitable for Audio.
I went back to the Studio, performed a DISK PART and clean the SSD (Samsung EVO PRO), then I installed Windows Server 2012 R2 64. I tested LantecyMON and it passed.
Then I installed my DAW, the driver for the USB 3 and RME and the results were still green.
I opened up a project containing 208 Audio Tracks at 96k 64bit and 64 Buffer, this project also has hundreds of plugins.
The CPU Measured at 18% and there were no dropouts. 208 Audio Tracks at 64 buffers.
I reverted the C State change in the BIOS but kept all unneeded hardware out or disabled.


With these findings, I am just mad as hell.

It would be great if LatencyMon was a bit informative because I did everything and still had the same problem.

Three days of losing work and changing my BIOS because there is no other information available.

What a painful experience.

What an awesome thread. Thanks very much to all of you (even if that means i'm saying thank you for unpleasant DAW experiences some of you had to go through).
 
Would also like to thank Bitflipper for his good job as a host. Always a pleasure to read his posts (even though most of the times they're making my little brain spin in confused dizziness...)

hey everyone: 
I forgot to include my Specs, just in case someone else have similar issues.

Windows 7 64bit Ultimate
ASUS Sabertooth X79  (Intel Chipset)
Processor:    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3601 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 64.0 GB
NVIDIA GForce GTX 6060TI
Sonnett Allegro: USB 3.0 PCI:
RME FireFace UFX Plus.

As indicated, I am no longer running Windows 7, I have Sonar Running in Windows Server 2012 R2.
It is the best, talk about minimal OS and it does not stand in my way.

It's a Server Software.