Serious problems with external gear as inserts

WaveLab
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Hi!
I’m on Wavelab 10.0.60.
I’m having serious latency issues when using external gear as inserts in Wavelab. Windows 10, RME Fireface 802. Haven’t tried this with another audio interface/converter yet. I haven’t tried this with previous versions of Wavelab.
External gear inserts work perfectly without any latency or stability issues in Cubase.

Issues:
→ Playback latency. I press the play button and I have to wait about a second to start.
→ Playback difference between what I see (timeline needle/waveform) and what I listen
→ Big latency between external gear metering and playback through Wavelab. It’s really annoying, not even sure what’s going on there.
→ Wavelab feels unstable in general as soon as I insert external gear no matter if it’s on clip, track (montage) or master section.
→ Short noises occur after I press the play button. These noises also occur in rendered audio.

Tried different buffer size settings and sample rates. No difference.
Sample rate/digital syncing has nothing to do with it since I even disconnected any digital device to be sure it has nothing to do with that.

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Did you try without other plugins? External Gear plugins side to side with other plugins that have latency, increase the overall latency more than linearly

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Yes I did! First thing I inserted was external gear and the plugins after. Didn’t notice if there was bigger difference with or without plugins but latency starts immediately with external gear.

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Forgot to mention that external gear insert also causes short noises after I press the play button. The problem is that these noises also occur in the rendered audio.

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What is your audio device block size? Don’t use less than 128 in 44.1k of 256 in 96k.

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Ok, I’m usually on 512 though. As I wrote in my post tried lowering or increasing buffer size (up to 2048) but it doesn’t make any difference.