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  • SONAR total roundtrip latency 18 ms (p.2)
2015/10/14 16:03:35
AlanSJackson
I was forced into the Win10 thing which caused me endless problems with my Roland V-studio 20 (which I loved btw) to the point where I had to sell. I bought the Audient ID14 and upgraded to Sonar Platinum, but the reported ASIO latencies at all frequencies were initially so bad that a 29ms round trip was the best I could manage. I moved away from it all for fear of throwing something at the wall.
 
However, I recently played around with the settings again after they announced the driver update and the lowest round trip is now less than 7ms. Massive improvement. Trouble is, now I don't know whether that's due to the new driver or changes to SONAR (Ipswich).
2015/10/14 20:39:40
yevster
Ozone adds quite a bit of latency. It's designed for mastering, and thus happily trades off processing speed for DSP quality. Bypass it when tracking, and latency should improve.
2015/10/14 20:50:49
Doktor Avalanche
yevster
Duplicate post. Erase me from existence!



You might want to do that but I will at least need ONE MILLION DOLLARS (or a camel).
2015/10/15 14:13:23
brconflict
One of the requests I and some others have made was a Global "freeze". If you could freeze the entire project to retain all effects, but leave armed tracks unfrozen you could essentially do what I understand PT does with their low-latency recording track (in the user's experience, anyway). 

Being able to eliminate all plug-in latency on all tracks but the armed one by a Global freeze, would end most complaints about recording latency. And I'll be the first to admit, it's not been predictable in Sonar (for me). You can easily stop/start the Audio engine and latency will zero-out. It has been flaky in past Sonar versions, but I haven't "tracked" in Platinum yet. Only mixed. 
2015/10/15 14:59:16
Bristol_Jonesey
RESQ
Tried that. Uninstalled the drivers. They didn´t show up in Sonar, only the VS-100, still the same RTL of 18,5 seconds.
Anyway, it´s ok for me. I can work with it, if the latency get´s too much, I just temporarily switch off all FX to record something and that´s it!
Thanks for all the replies
Very much appreciated!
Got me a better understanding of my system


Standard Operating Practice.
 
Temporarily bypassing all your Fx (just hit 'e') reduces your latency to a minimum.
 
Unless I'm recording someone who needs Fx whilst tracking, I do this all the time.
 
If say, they really want reverb in their phones and you don't have access to an external solution, just uncheck "Bypass FX Rack" on your reverb bus (as an example)
2015/10/15 16:41:18
Adq
There is also PDC override button, it can reduce latency on monitoring tracks, and you don't need to switch effects on other tracks off. You just don't put effects with latency on track you record, and on buses where it goes (including Master).
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