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This is the most in-depth, well-explained and thorough video I've seen on audio latency. He explains it so well, that it helped me fix my latency problems on my electronic drumset w/o him having to even use one. This man is legitimately TEACHING the material from rudimentary basics to the types of hardware required. . 15/10, this man saved my recording problems entirely 🙌

We can make 3-D Video games and Virtual Reality compatable PCs, But we still haven't stopped Latency in audio devices? Come on.

most important on Windows system is the OS optimisation : General optimisation Windows 10 PC 1. Set your computer's power for high performance If your computer is set to conserve energy, the CPU may not be running at full speed all of the time. This can have a detrimental effect on your computer's audio performance. To set your computer's power for high performance: - Go to: Control Panel>Power Options - Choose "High Performance" - Then click the "Change plan settings" button. Make sure both power options are set to "Never". 2. Disable system sounds System sounds can interrupt audio applications. Ensure that they are disabled by doing the following: - Go to control panel and select "Sound" - Go to the sounds tab - Under sounds scheme, select "No sounds" - Click "Apply" then, "OK" 3. Set processor scheduling to "Background services" This will improve the performance of your audio drivers on your computer. To do this: - In control panel select "system" - Go to "Advanced system settings" and then the "Advanced" tab - Click on "Settings.." under Performance to bring up the "Performance Options" window. - Go to the "Advanced" tab and set processor scheduling as "Background Services" - Click "Apply" then "OK" 4. Disable 'Windows Background Apps' Windows 10, by default, runs a number of Apps in the background, regardless of whether you are using them. Select 'Settings' from the Windows Start menu, select 'Privacy', then select 'Background Apps'. From here switch 'Off' the apps that you do not believe you are using, or that you do not wish to run in the background when you are not using the program. 5. Disable 'Windows updates from more than one place' Navigate to 'Settings' in the Windows Start Menu. Then select: Update & Security -> Advanced Options -> Choose how updates are delivered -> Turn the slider from 'ON' to 'OFF'. USB optimisation: If you're using a USB interface then we'd also recommend checking the following settings: 1) In the device manager (Right-click the Windows icon > Device Manager), in the Universal Serial Bus controllers section, right click each USB Root Hub, choose Properties > Power Management and untick the Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power option. 2) Next, right-click the Windows Icon > Power Options. Set both "Screen" and "Sleep" options here to 'Never'. Set the Power Scheme to High Performance (if this setting is not available, click on "Additional Power Settings" on the right side of the screen). Then click on Change plan settings. On the next page set both "Turn off the display" and "Put the computer to sleep" to "Never". 3) Then click Change advanced power settings. In the window that opens make sure you have the following settings: Hard disc > Turn off hard disk after > Setting (Minutes) = Never Sleep > Sleep after > Setting (Minutes) = Never USB settings > USB selective suspend setting > Setting = Disabled Display > Turn off display after > Setting (Minutes) = Never Processor power management > Minimum processor state > Setting = 100% Processor power management > Maximum processor state > Setting = 100% Please note, not all options are available on all machines. Advanced optimisation: If you wish to optimise your system further, or you are using a system that is particularly lacking in resources you can follow the tips below for advanced optimisation. Disable Sleep/Hibernate mode Sleep and Hibernate mode can cause problems on some systems. There are various sleep/hibernate states that different computers use and some system/device drivers may not work well when the computer comes out of these modes. If at all possible, it's worth disabling these modes to see if that improves your system's performance Sleep mode can be disabled by following steps 2 and 3 in the 'USB Optimisation' section above. This will prevent your computer automatically going to sleep (you should then avoid deliberately selecting 'Sleep' or 'Hibernate' from the Power Options menu). Disable Windows Firewall, anti-virus and spyware software If you're able to run your system without connecting to the internet then these should all be disabled to ensure that no interferences occur during audio recording or playback and to ensure that maximum resources are available. To remain secure while your firewall and antivirus disabled, it is advisable to disconnect from any internet connections when working with audio. This will also make sure that no network adapters are conflicting with any audio drivers. Disable Visual effects The visual features in Windows 10 can use resources that could otherwise help to improve audio performance. As a start, it is good idea to disable some of the visual features by doing the following: - Bring back up the "Performance Options" window by following step 3 above and clicking on the "Visual Effects" tab and selecting "custom". - Untick: "Animate windows when minimising and maximising" to help prevent glitches when minimising and maximising. You can also experiment with disabling other visual effects in the custom list to see how they improve audio performance. - Once finished, press "OK" If you wish to optimise your Windows 10 graphics for the best performance use the "Adjust for best performance" option. Disable Network cards Sometimes, network card drivers can cause problems with audio. A good troubleshooting step is to try disabling your network adapters in Device Manager, and then test local audio (like an .mp3) and see if you continue to have issues. This is also a good optimisation step in general. Disabled adapters can easily be re-enabled at any point. Disable Windows services One way in which you can make more resources available to improve audio performance, is to disable unnecessary Windows 10 services as these use valuable resources. The following site has a comprehensive guide to the services running on Windows 10 and helps locate the services that are safe to disable: Windows 10 Service Configurations by Black Viper Please note that we would recommend that disabling Windows services should be done only by advanced users. If you are still experiencing audio performance problems after optimising your computer for audio, please Contact Technical Support Disable Fast Boot Some users may experience an issue where audio becomes slowed down after booting the computer. This is fixed by disabling fast boot.

The exact moment you finish saying audio interface latency KZfaq started buffering now that is funny

My friend and i were having problems with sound glitches during our recording today and your video literally drops and solves all our problems; God sent you to help us, dude, thank you so much

Finally a well-explained video on latency and ways to combat it! 5/5

What an amazing video! Great explanation. This video could not have come at a better time for me. You've definitely got a fan here

Thank you for the tremendous amount of info you packed into 5 minutes. Really helpful and well-organized video! Great outline of some options to further explore. : )

The audio in your video is so crisp. Love it.

Wow thank you so much! This was very helpful!!! This video answered all my questions at this moment! 👏👏👏

Using the correct driver has solved my latency problems in the past. It's when I learned about ASIO drivers and such.

Subbed, liked and downloaded! Exactly what I needed to watch!

This was soooo useful, thank you so much!!! It's amazing that a video you uploaded 4 years ago is still helping people. I still have latency issues in my project (and I'm in the mixing phase, not even recording!) but now at least I know why and what I can do to fix them :)

beginner producer here just downloaded my first daw and got a midi controller for my birthday (woo!) this was really helpful in showing me what i can do to reduce the latency between my midi and my daw when recording beats so i really appreciate it. definitely going to come to this channel first with future questions so please keep making content. it was very easy to follow. :)

You apparently left out the part about when all else fails, start beating the crap out of your computer with a base ball bat. Have I been doing it wrong or something?

Brilliant, so clear

This fixed my pops and clicks issue because I was totally overlooking something so obvious. Unused plugins saved in my template! Thanks for making a clear video, now I can back to making music rather than troubleshooting.

BEST Video about HOW TO reduce latency, I have seen so far on KZfaq!

I love the way you explain everything. New subscriber here look forward to going through your informative videos :) thank you.

i love this guys mic! so raw!

Thank you. My ASIO Driver was messing up the latency. So good to here my voice instantly.

Doctor i loved this type of video, very educational. Please make more videos like this ✌🏼

Failure to understand that bigger buffer means slower response was getting me! Subscribed thanks to this video; thanks a lot doctor mix. You're awesome at piano btw!

Thanks a lot!!! Subscribed!

What a great explanation. Thank you so much.

Thank you very much Doctor Mix, very useful information, thumbs up! :D

That is a great piece of knowledge worth anyone serious with music to see!!

Dude, you won a suscriber.. excelent video!

Wow thank you so much! This was very helpful!!

Great clear easy to understand video. Thank you:)

It was interesting to watch, even though I am not into music sutff, but more power user. Thank you!

Thank you so much Doctor !!!!

Best video on the subject of latency. Gracias Doctor.

Very helpful thanks doc!

Thanks for the info!! Liked and subbed!!

great explanation, thank you sir

Love it man!

1. Record to Tape. Done. Seriously, though, great info! A lot of people don't turn off all their other stuff going on while they're recording too.

Best video. Thanks.

My best advice is do a test with your own equipment and compare the latency you experience with a brand new empty song to adding a track to large song with 20 or so tracks. For me there was a huge difference in latency on an empty set compared to a large song with many tracks. There were no settings I could change to fix it, turning off plugins didn't fix it. What I learned to do is if I'm having latency issues while recording a new track in a large song I bounce everything down to a single track, save it out to a new version and then record the additional parts on that file. Then take those new parts into the full version for mixing. A bit of a pain but the latency is sometimes too much to bear especially if trying to play 8th notes.

Very informative, thanks.

Very good explanation of a confusing thing. I shared this with a few people.

Great video

when you use focusrite 2i2 and set the quality high, a low buffer makes the sound crackly . why tho .

Amazing video

thanks 4 ur video ... help me a lot

Helpful as f. Thanks man

Very helpful... thank you

thank you and much love from houston

Thank you sooo much this finally makes sence why i have popping sound was interested what asio actually was, dont really need anything for mixing and making music but sound popping when was, gaming and doing other thing was driving me mad

subscribed months ago. thanks as always

Useful! Thanks

genial tutorial :) mil gracias

Damn. I don’t even need to know this, and it’s still fascinating!

Excellent!

Thank you

God Bless, doctor... Thank you very much!

Oh my gosh how did I not already try messing with my input monitoring 😂😂 thank you so much this video was perfect for troubleshooting and taught me a bit extra in the process

Thanks, I have ran into this problem and it is slowing down my production and my motivation..........i hope this will fix the problem

Thank you for the info. Have you tried to use a mixer interface? Specifically ammon am02.

great video ,,,great lesson,,it helped a lot ,,,

I'm having a problem with a slight delay between my spdif and analogue outputs on my focusrite 8i6 1st gen. It gives it a kind of chorus type effect with them both on. I'm thinking I might just have to live with it. I set the clock to spdif but that turns off the analogue outputs.

What type of mixer do you suggest? I'm looking to pick one up.

Thank you man

very good

Perfect , I am going to test the solution 3

Help! I just purchased my first midi controller (no sound card module). I want to use high quality sounds that I am finding for purchase online. The main purpose will be for practicing/performing live. I currently have a focusrite 6i6 2nd gen interface and I just ordered a midi to usb cord. I also have a decently fast laptop that I can dedicate for only running this controller. I am not invested in any hardware or software at this point and have not chosen a DAW to use. What would you recommend? I understand your explanations for recording purpose but is there a more simple way if the only thing I am doing is providing sound for the midi? I want as little latency as possible. Thank you!

I have a i9 10900k. .ram 32gb sdd 1tb.verything is a solid.its a monster pc .but still i am getting latency while recording through my audiobox vsl22.either its microphone or midi recording i am still getting slight delay.i used my e-drum to usb port in my pc still latency.on asio4all i have set 64 buffer size and its showing only 2ms but i am still getting a little bit of latency. .any solutions?

very useful

Love the intro.

im using at2020USB with no jack plug, can you help me so i can monitor myself with 0 latency?

Just subscribed.

Genio Kun Agüero, además de streamer sos productor, gracias.

Thanks for this DR Mix. It helped me finish my second album. AL

hi there. i have latency issues using umc 18 on reaper. how do i do feedback loop on this umc device? i am trying to sort the offset setting to have no latency when recording.

Lowering the buffersize while recording with Audition fixed the dropouts in my recordings, i also changed the sample-rate from 48Khz to 44.1 and finally everything is going smoothly.

For me it was the sample rate too high. 24 bit 96000 HZ change down to 24 bit 44100 HZ.

Hi, I have been using an iRig Stream audio interface for livestreaming my DJ sets on Facebook but I have noticed after about 10 mins the audio tempo starts to sound funny, slows and just isnt normal, but it's only from my listeners are hearing this and also when I play back the recording fater I have finished. I use Traktor Pro 2 with the NI S4 MK2, Apple Macbook Air (2017), any help with this would be great?

Thank U Sir ...

On my bodyboard piano when i click on a note it stay clicked (stay on), and i can't click more than one key on the same time, also i can't click more than one click on the some note

Great video. I'll have to watch it a few times. I'm back into music production after 6 years away from it...bad mistake ! I'm getting a scratch distorted sound on Rec-playback and I'm now beginning to wonder if I just need to disable the Wi-Fi. SUBSCRIBED...Thanks !

i want to record my guitar using amplitube and vamp effect direct into pc with sonar. my pc is i7 3gr, 8gb ram. no audio card. Ehat i need to buy? Lotusrite scarlet solo usb will be good for that? i plan to record with fx drum, bass, etc. what i need to me free of latency?

Hello, thanks for the video. I have a FOCUSRITE SCARLETT 2i2 2snd gen and I am not using an audio interface, I want to use it for streaming on twitch, with streamlabs. The thing is, when I connect my hearphones, mic and guitar I hear some delay betwen my voice (or guitar) and the sound in my hearphones (I think latency for what you say here). How can I solve this delay? I tried a lot of things, I don't know what else to do. Thanks!

Great explanation Doc. Solutions however missed some plugin mitigation approaches, such as freezing tracks (in Logic) or running a DSP processor like UADs (plugin specific unfortunately.

When direct monitoring from adc, has the sound been around the daw or is it the first signal?

Would you know why I don’t have the option to change my latency? I’m stuck at 512 on Abelton. I’m supposed to be able to scroll up, or down to speed up, or slow down my processing speed, but for some reason, it’s not an option?. As you could probably guess, I’m an absolute newb. I’m using 3rd gen of Focusrite 18i20 for recording an acoustic drum kit. Everything has gone smoothly until i hit this snag. Do you know what would cause this? Thanks

your lil free style was lit

So basically, to record my emulated laggy sound from software in my phone, I should only listen/play along to my dry signal (or maybe en effect send to a pedal)from the mixer but still record the the delayed wet signal?

Hi m8, Thanks for the fix, Doc ;--) But at line 4:08 tip nr3, do I understand this well? Use the mixer(Behringer Xenyxx 1222 USB) between my system-config(pc/Ableton live 10) and audio interface(Focusrite 18i20 2nd Gen)? This also means, that I must connect my monitor speakers on my mixer instead and NOT on my audio-interface 18i20? While recording indeed I still have annoying click/cracks sounds, even when listen music from youtube. I wonder if it solves the problem..

OHH it was because of my Dropbox!!!!! youre a genius

Hi There, Can i ask you? ive started using the M-audio M-track 2x2 fo rmy live streams... sometimes it makes my voice sound very low maybe 2 tones down? why does this happen? any help would be fantastic x thanks

Hi ! I have a big problem. I bought a new Prism Titan and I work with the latest Protools! My problem is that when I record vocals or instruments, I have a lot of latency, no matter how much I set it to 32 buffer sizes in the playback engine... I would like to ask if the same problem happens to you and if so, is there any way to fix this? problem?

I still get lag with i5 3.5ghz processor 24gb ram, whatever driver i use. whatever software i use. whatever interface i use umc22 or KA 6. even with no plugins. even with rate so low it crushes the signal. it does nothing to help i still get a 'slapback' effect on pc. please help?

Maybe you can help me out with this problem. I recently wanted to expand my studio and bought a 25 xlr cable to record in a booth. When recording I instantly noticed a change in real-time. It sounded like I was inside of a can and with a slight delay. I had no effects on and I had all the same set up as before. I was recording fine until I plugged this 25ft cable in. This is driving me nuts. My voice will get recorded on track ok, but in real-time sounds delayed and like a tin can. I’m using garageband and a Scarlett 2i2 audio interface. What could it be? The mic cable?

how do you change the latency of your mac soundcard

Would Reverb on Logic Pro X be a plug in? I know I’m the software it is called one but I didn’t know if it would effect it while recording.

Dear Doctor Mix, sometimes i like to play te guitar and sing so i use my mixer Mixex Mackie micro series 1202-VLZ with my harman kardon HS 2X0 stereo home system , but i ear a latency when i play my guitar! Hoe is possiple ? What i do wrong ? Of course there is no latency when i use my mixer with my two RCF art 310A speakers.What can i do ?

I am on the fence between buying a focusrite clarett or scarlett... Do you think, the clarett will have better latency?

Hi, what mic are you using, please? Thank you in advance.