1 Topic by fourdogslong (edited by fourdogslong 2024-05-17 21:42:35)

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Topic: ADI-2 Pro FS R for low latency recording

Hi,
I have an ADI-2 Pro FS-R Black Edition that I've used for mixing and mastering for around 2-3 years now and it's been fine.

I usually have my buffer size set high because most of the time I'm mixing so I don't need low latency, however recently I tried to play some virtual instruments inside Ableton Live 11 (on windows 11), so I set the buffer size to 128 and even though the CPU was barely hitting 5% I got lots of glitches in the audio.
I had to lower my sample rate from 96K to 48K and up my buffer size to 512 samples to avoid crackles but then of course this introduced latency.

This leaves me wondering, are other "dedicated" audio interface from RME, like the UFX serie or the pcie cards for example, more effecient at lower buffer size since the ADI-2 Pro FS-R is technically not an audio interface even though it has USB connectivity?

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Re: ADI-2 Pro FS R for low latency recording

Can you try reaper? Live has been known to struggle with low latencies. And latency monitor to see if there is a problem there? Ifaik it should perform much better.

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Re: ADI-2 Pro FS R for low latency recording

vinark wrote:

Can you try reaper? Live has been known to struggle with low latencies. And latency monitor to see if there is a problem there? Ifaik it should perform much better.

Yes I own Reaper and I could try it, even though I was using Live's instruments, but my question remains, is the ADI-2 Pro FS-R in USB mode as solid as RME's dedicated audio interfaces, or are the interfaces more effecient?

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Re: ADI-2 Pro FS R for low latency recording

The ADI-2 Pro uses the same architecture (and drivers, under Windows) as the other interfaces, so any perfomance issue will be the same.

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Re: ADI-2 Pro FS R for low latency recording

MC wrote:

The ADI-2 Pro uses the same architecture (and drivers, under Windows) as the other interfaces, so any perfomance issue will be the same.

Thank you very much, that's exactly what I wanted to know.