Recording latency with seemingly low lag

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I’ve been using Focusrite Scarlet 6i6 2nd gen as my interface for a long time but recently upgraded to a new PC. With my new PC which is quite powerful: i7, 64GB and a good SSD I’ve been experiencing quite a bit of lag while recording and can’t figure out what is going on.

I am experiencing the lag with most of the VST amps I play through (mostly Neural DSP) and also with MIDI input with VST instruments even if I seemingly should have around 3ms of delay which should not be noticeable. I can play through Guitar Rig when I have a project with almost nothing in it and go to very small buffer sizes like 64 and get my delay to around 1,5ms. With the Neural DSP plugins I can have an otherwise empty project with 32 buffer size, have around 2ms of latency but still when playing the delay is there. If I use the ‘Constrain Delay Compensation’ it will deactivate the Neural DSP plugins but I know that people use them live with worse computers with no issues. I’ve tried to otherwise optimize the Windows and other settings to get the best performance possible and I am not using a USB Hub. I am using ASIO drivers

I didn’t have such issues with my old PC which had much worse specs than my current one.

Any ideas where the latency might be coming from?

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Hi,

Make sure, there is no plug-in at the output or monitor bus, please.

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Thanks Martin
I have no plugins on the master bus, I can have barely any plugins on the project and the behavior is still as described

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Windows Ultimate power management or Steinberg audio power scheme enabled?

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Try going to “Studio–>Studio Setup” from the menu and then clicking on “Audio System” on the top left, then drop down the advanced options and then disabling “Activate ASIO Audio-Guard.”

Not sure that this should matter but that setting has caused some issues and it might be affecting the Neural DSP plugin.

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Any news on this topic? Im having the exact same problem here! :frowning:

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If you have plugins that are set to an aggressive linear phase then it could be that

Also what sample rate are you using?

Are you using Asio 4 all or native drivers? Have you updated the audio drivers & made sure cubase is using the correct Audio driver?

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Tried everything I could possibly imagine with no results. Went and bought RME Babyface and everything works like a dream even with a lot of plugins active in the project so most likely this it’s related to the drivers…

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