Hello All,
             Today I have connected up my guitar effects pedal (Boss GT 10) and I am experiencing at bit of latency. Its not massive but is slightly noticeable. I'm currently using MC7. So basically I'm connected through the USB function on the pedal and I am sure I have the most up to date driver for the pedal and it is installed properly. I have also set the mixing latency to fast rather than safe. For reference I am using the motherboard sound card for playback. Thats about as far as my knowledge extends to I'm afraid. If anyone has any further ideas/thoughts/information that would be a great to help to me?
 
Thank you 

First, PC sound cards are notorious for poor latency.  A dedicated recording interface unit is what is needed.  Even a relatively inexpensive two channel interface unit, such as a Focusrite 2i2 will be very much improved over the PC sound card. 
 
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Scarlett2i2
 

fireberd
First, PC sound cards are notorious for poor latency.  A dedicated recording interface unit is what is needed.  Even a relatively inexpensive two channel interface unit, such as a Focusrite 2i2 will be very much improved over the PC sound card. 
 
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Scarlett2i2
 

Hi thank you for the reply!
 
Do take your point here. Funny thing is I can use my midi keyboard to trigger synths with virtually no latency and I can use my other interface fine. The problems seems to be with guitar pedal. So I take theres no other settings within the MC7 that can be tweaked?
 
Thanks again

I'm not familiar with the guitar pedal but it sounds like there is latency in the pedal combined with the PC sound card latency.   MIDI is an entirely different scenario and you can't compare that.

What driver mode is MC7 using? I cannot tell from the download page what drivers are available for the device.

scook
What driver mode is MC7 using? I cannot tell from the download page what drivers are available for the device.

Hi thank you for the reply.
 
I'm not 100% sure what you are asking here. What I have done though is downloaded the most up to date driver for the pedal from the BOSS website and I have installed it. When I go into MC7 the pedal does show as an input device. In terms of what MC7 is doing I really don't know.
 
Sorry If I'm missing something here
 
Thanks again!

So after all this time I got this one fixed. There was two seperate issues here. 
 
1) There is a mode on the pedal to use the downloaded driver (which supports ASIO, see learning already), so it was set at "standard" when it should be "advanced". Standard is used when using the windows driver hence the latency.
 
2) I hadnt selected ASIO under preferences/playback and recording/driver mode. It was set to WASAPI but this had bad latency.
 
Now my latency figures are  
 
Input: 11.5msec
Output: 13.5msec
Total Roundtrip: 25.1msec
 
I dont know how good that is but it fine for me.
 
cheers