Hi! I have 2 PC computers, one is in my actual studio (i3, 12th gen, 32Gb RAM) and one is in my bedroom (AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32Gb RAM). The bedroom PC is a lot more powerful, but this is the one having this mysterious latency which is about 700-900ms, give or take. This is totally unacceptable. ~100ms and below is somewhat acceptable since I only use VST plugins, I don’t record anything.
For the record, my much weaker studio PC has almost no latency, it works perfectly.
I have been struggling with this for a while now. I have tried everything that I could think of, I even bought another audio interface which made no difference! Then the latency shown in Cubase studio setup window does not reflect the real latency.
The “Audio system” window can show 5ms, 18ms, 35ms, 95ms, etc., with or without ASIO Guard, but I always hear the latency as long as almost one second! I press a key (MIDI keyboard or the piano roll), and the sound comes out almost one second later. I have also checked task manager, anything that could eat the system resources, found nothing. Windows 10 x64 also doesn’t have a latency of its own, because when I test the speaker configuration, the “triple ding” sound comes immediately when I click on either speaker icon, without latency. I also tried different drivers, ASIO and non-ASIO, again no difference.
Currently there’s no difference if I use an internal Sound Blaster or an external audio interface, my Cubase experience is the same, almost unusable. I suspect the problem must be somewhere outside of Cubase, but I don’t really have a clue anymore…
Does anyone have any idea what to do?