Increased Latency Upon Joining a Session
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Hello,
I am using a 6 month old Windows computer in Northern Illinois and my partner is using a 3 yr old Mac and is located in Nashville. I do not have a fiber connection however, my provider did just upgrade the area and I have 500gb service. I had a technician come out and I am getting the speed I am paying for. I am using a focusrite 2i2 interface and he is using a focusrite 18i8 both have the most updated drivers installed. We are both using CAT6 wire and an adapter. We are also using our studio headphones plugged directly into our interface. We both have extremely low latency before we join a session me 3-5ms and him 1-3ms, once we join it immediately jumps to 20+ms. I opened the asio buffer and changed my buffer to 32 as shown in the video and he changed his Mac also to the recommendation. I feel like we have tried about everything to get the latency under 20ms to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Dear Rodney,
Good news: your latency estimates are already low enough to play lots of styles of music together.
The 20+ ms of remote latency you get when connected to each other means it takes about 20+ ms for sound to get from one person’s mic to the other person’s headphones — about the same as the time sound takes to travel from one musician to another musician a little over 20 feet away in the same room. Musicians can comfortably play many styles together when this kind of person-to-person remote latency is roughly 25 ms or less. Some styles remain comfortably playable with remote latencies of up to 45 ms, like in this video featured on our blog.
The 1-5 ms of local latency you get before connecting to anyone means it takes several ms for sound to get from your mic to your headphones. Your local latency is low enough for you to comfortably listen to your own voice through your headphones by dragging the Monitor slider in the You (…) subpanel to the right, if you’d like.
Musicians can comfortably listen to their own voice in their headphones when self-to-self local latencies are below about 5-10 ms (tastes vary).To decrease the remote latency when you’re connected with someone, drag the latency slider to the left as far as you can while keeping audio quality acceptable. Then, click the Auto button
to turn Auto off (). Check out our short video showing these steps.
Also, try looking away from your screens and basing your timing on what you hear rather than what you see (video has more latency than audio).
Thank you,
David Liao
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