Hi PT...

I too was very nervous switching to this... I've been running Soundscape (SSL now) Mixtreme's for decades now with excellent latency minimums... but they too were PCI and not PCIe so I had to change (not made anymore) or buy a PCI expansion chassis etc.... and deal with a company no longer making drivers for old gear.

Depending on the project I'm working on, I can run easily down at 1.3ms where my old Mixtreme only got to 1.8ms...

I might be wrong, but I think these are all reasonable latencies for current tech, are they not? I believe there must be another issue or two causing this... I'm not sure what to recommend... yet...

Keni

Thanks Keni

I can't think of anything either I have tried everything I know but it is bugging me silly

Is this the first audio adapter you use ? Is your system checked/tuned ?

You can try this http://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml

If your system is not tuned yet, disabling the wireless network adapter makes a big difference. Other tuning may collectively adds to some more improvement.

Oh..I just read you had used RME before..

Thanks the system is tuned via the sweetwater guide

Click the PDC button (it turns blue) and see if that helps. With complex projects, the delay compensation can be enough that if you're monitoring yourself through Sonar, you'll hear an audible and horribly annoying delay. When you bypass PDC, you should hear yourself with no latency issues. The only complication is you have to re-enable it (gray) during playback.

I've only had to do this with projects where I'm doing something like a guitar overdub through an amp sim and there are tons of effects done on an object-oriented basis, as well as lots of other plug-ins.

I reviewed the 1818VSL with Sonar and it worked like a champ. Make sure that you have all the VSL control panel settings and such correct. IIRC when using it with a 16.0.2, it defaulted to something like 2048 samples and I had to set it properly. I'm sorry I can't be more detailed, but the system went back to PreSonus after the review was done.

It's probably a situation where you'll change one parameter, say "doh!", and carry on recording

Thanks Craig I hope it is that simple

Doesn't the 'vsl' models have a built-in mixer? You could try record monitoring off the box directly, and I believe it has some effects you could place on the monitor as well. No?