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Silas Scarborough · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1635 Location: None

I don't get any latency at all. I run my monitors off the audio interface and I hear the audio as soon as I crack it. This isn't because I'm running the super-killer computer as it remains true when I hang the interface off a MacBook Pro.

Yes, ZERO latency.

I'm pretty sure Nad is running a similar configuration and he has also reported zero latency.

There was a note about effects in relation to Firewire and I didn't really get that. The audio interface won't provide any effects at all. I use a Presonus Firestudio Project but there are many from which to choose.

The Digidesign 003r is ostensibly the Cadillac of audio interfaces but know that ProTools will take over your computer and make it pretty much useless for any tasks other than ProTools. If you have a single machine, give it a lot of thought before I opted for a Digidesign solution.
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Nad · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 542 Location: at my puter.

If I follow you correctly, what you are talking about is hardware that you will plug into your Mac. I'd steer clear of computer connections like USB and Firewire. The audio ports on puters these days are more than capable. Perhaps approach your acquisitions from the perspective they may be plugged into a Mac, PC, or a non-computer PA system.

My mic and mixer will plug into anything. Plugging into my mac gives me access to effects and stuff I like.

The latency issue for me comes down to simply where i feed the headphones.When listening to the mixer, and the mixer feeds the puter exactly what you are hearing - there is no latency.

Its a journey thru the system that is to be considered. Sound out from the puter goes into the mixer. Sound in to the puter comes from the mixer. Then any effects you blend in, say with Garungeband, arrive in your mixer, and you are listening thru headphones thru the mixer. So when you add your voice and/or instrument to the mixer everything is together.

That mixed signal is going back into your computer to be streamed out.

The only Garungeband effect I have encountered that adds a latency issue is the Vocal Transformer. I assume this is because the puter must first sample a sound and then calculate a transform, and then inject it back into the signal.

Running other applications at the same time (SL of course - perhaps Photoshop, Safari (multiple tabs), Mail (checked every 5 minutes), and misc programs I may have forgotten to shut down, does not generate any latency at all for me.

This may very well be because i have an M-Audio card, and that handles everything more or less separately, but that is just a guess. I do not know, I've had the card in there before I started doing streaming.
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hexx · Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 386 Location: Rastafairy Beach

If only I owned a MacIntosh computer, man, I would tell ya about those ropes. Hell yeah. But alas. Ain't got no MacIntosh computer. All I've got is one of dem iPhones.

Do have me a drum pad thingie on it, though. I just feed it all through the same Behringer mixer that brother Djai has. Throw in some particles while I'm at it.

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Vlad · Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Posts: 20

Guys n Gals,

Thanks very much for all your help and advice...its been very useful.

This SLMC forum is great!

Am considering my options now...

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