ASIO latency FUBAR

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I searched through the forums here and can’t find a single instance of somebody getting low latency out of ASIO. I have a build of Audaciiy 2.4.1 compiled with ASIO support and ASIO4ALL reports that it is commanded to have 2048 sample buffers by Audacity and there seems to be no way to override this. That corresponds to an overall latency of 85 ms which is about what my ears tell me, No better than WASAPI :frowning: .

Anyways please no “guesses” as to how to fix it wanted - My question is if ANYONE has ever had latency under 20 ms? and if so how did you accomplish that?

In another DAW program on my same laptop with the same interface I’m getting a reported latency of just over 5 ms with ASIO and it sounds instantaneous to my ears :slight_smile: .

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The best solution is “direct monitoring” (zero latency monitoring), but that depends on it being supported by the hardware.

OK, I won’t.

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The three examples I used for the overdubbing tutorial all had local hardware monitoring and didn’t depend on the computer.

Works a treat. No latency.

Koz

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Yeah, I’m trying to use a cheap $10 USB Guitar interface that doesn’t support zero latency monitoring. I suppose this is why they never “fixed” this bug? For now(?) I can do my overdub in Wave Tracks Live (stripped down Ardour) and export the WAV file from that into Audacity :slight_smile: .

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I can do my overdub in Wave Tracks Live (stripped down Ardour) and export the WAV file from that into Audacity

Sounds good.

Koz

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The absence of ASIO support is not a “bug”, it’s a licensing issue: ASIO Audio Interface - Audacity Manual

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Oy vey - love folks that post without actually reading through the question LOL.

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Further info: It’s only ASIO4ALL that is having the problem - I hooked up my Presonus Audiobox USB 96 and installed its driver and I’m getting low latency. Other DAWs I’ve tried work fine with ASIO4ALL. Unfortunately the $10 I/F I wanted to use only comes with ASIO4ALL.