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They've are still updating software for products no longer being made.
That almost never happens.
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Latency is sub 5ms when the buffer samples is at 64, which is awesome to play guitar through VST amps and effects. but this is only possible for empty or near empty projects. larger projects will start to crackle at this buffer sample size. So it will not do miracles.
I guess the bottleneck is my laptop, and not my interface now. I notice that the crackle happens at low buffer samples and the CPU usage hits around 50% in ableton.
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64 is only really for this people with massively powerful computers and only at the start of the session.
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Onboard reverb is a game changer!
Will have to figure out a problem where chrome doesn't want to play nice with the babyface, seems to be chrome bug that's materialised itself, as many others have encountered it too..
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/2134843?hl=en
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So far my current PC has been able to cope with anything I throw at it, even at 64spls. However, on my previous, less powerful, PC I had to make various adjustments to allow lower spls settings for tracking without the dreaded pops and crackles. You can Google how to optimise your PC for audio. Apologies if you already know this.
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I haven't been able to find any dawbench results that show both those on the same PC.
Essentially, at the moment I have a Scarlett and let's say I have a project where adding an additional reverb plugin causes glitches, pops or clicks (and removing the plugin fixes it), if I swapped the Scarlett for a Babyface Pro would it allow that extra plugin or maybe even several more?
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...If reducing latency is the ultimate goal, upgrading to the babyface did reduce the latency significantly, whilst maintaining the buffer size. the babyface pro can reach sub-10ms at 128 samples, but the scarlett can't...
Just curious but what roundtrip (input/output) latency did you get from the Scarlett at the following spls settings :-
64 spls
96spls (if that's an option)
128 spls
I ask because I'm thinking of the new Solo 3rd Gen model as a possible future option to use with my laptop as a second portable system, after I've double checked what it can cope with to avoid pops and crackles.
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Many thanks. I didn't realise it was a 1st gen. Sorry if you mentioned that earlier. I believe they greatly improved the latency when they introduced the Scarlett 2nd gen and I think the 3rd gen is supposed to be at least as good as the 2nd gen.
I thought my Zoom UAC-2 was good, but your babyface pro is better and about 1ms less on those settings.
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It's very interesting that they perform similarly at the same buffer settings. The buffer setting is arbitrary, what we really want is an acceptable latency. So given that the RME has lower latency at the same buffer settings, it means that if we ignore the buffer number and set both interfaces to target < 6ms latency then the RME will actually allow more plugins to be run on the same system.
The decision would be easy if it wasn't for how big the price difference is, the RME really is very expensive.
It's good to know that it's an option though, if I get this new powerful system and there's still issues getting < 6ms latency (I've found that's what I need to feel real time) with a full project then getting the RME interface would give another step forward.
16: 4.0ms
32: 4.8ms
64: 8.2ms
128: 13.0ms
Do you have the figures for the Zoom? I keep reading it's very good for latency - if there was a reasonably priced interface that had the high performance of the RME without the other features that bump the price up to 600 quid I'd be well in to that.