The typical problem as e.g. with USB microphones.

The DAW/application can only load one driver and it is of course best practice to use the ASIO driver of the recording interface here for direct access to the HW, best audio quality and stability and lowest latencies.

ASIO4ALL is not a true ASIO driver with direct access to the audio hardware and bypassing the Windows kernel mixer. ASIO4ALL simply puts itself between the application and the Windows driver and speaks ASIO to the application.
It's practically an additional layer between the actual Windows driver and the application.

But the communication with the audio device is still done via the Windows driver and via the Windows kernel mixer, which can affect audio quality and also leads to higher latencies.

This is not a good / stable solution, for which you will not get manufacturer support if you run into problems.
You can use it if it works, but on the long you won't have a satisfactory and supported solution with it.

Better would be to optimize your environment and get devices that fit into "the overall picture" as it "should be", without using non-standard solutions with ASIO4ALL. Better follow a supported / best practise approach.

This is a nice thread.

I am in the same boat. I need edrumming to be insanely low latecy.  I am a NYC jazz drummer who practices in his apartment. I have a ufx+ on a 390 designer's motherboard thru tbolt and its all fine but actually i think even with 32 driver, its too long the latency.

When i hear the internal sounds on my dtx900 they arrive before triggering samples thru say a program like steven slate drums 5 or accent. My asio is set to 32 ms. I dont have pops or clicks and i also have a amd system 5800 system with a 560 vision dp mobo.

Honestly i can feel and hear latency when i practice and the idea is to get away from the very digital sounding drums in yamaha dtx or a Roland modules.

Its almost a honestly plea to ask if rme could make the driver go lower just for practice propose. In, fact i would pay for it if it works or simply go to any sound card that can give me lower latency. im sure there are many edrummers out there that need to keep there chops up and not have to record.

Recently i saw rtl sheets on gearspace sayin the babyface goes to 16 ms buffer and also the zen from antelope goes down to 8ms!!! I have not tried these.  I would build any system that would allow me to practice and feel the lowest latency imaginable, its that important to me.

again this is so i can practice hearing some real good sounding drums. There are alot of killing drum sample libs out already and i usual go back to the internal dtx sounds cause there faster then triggering it thru the cpu

20 years doing this and tbh i haven't seen any improvement in this area.  maybe i am wrong, all good though !

please can u make a beta driver to get the ufx+ down lower???? Almost begging

thanks

I was wondering if there would be any chance to get the buffer even low

The Yamaha drum modules have higher midi latency than the Roland modules but even still the latency of the RME interfaces is really low especially if you are running at 32 samples. I’m using a Roland td30 sending midi over usb to an i9 pc running SD3 and a Babyface pro fs with buffers set to 64 samples. This gives me just under 3ms output latency which is not detectable while playing. What DAW are you using  SSD5.5 with? Have you got any effects in line or on the master bus as these would add latency.