12-14-2020, 05:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-14-2020, 05:22 PM by Zeuloo.)
Greetings...New to Jamkazam! Play Drums and have a Zoom R24 and Macbook Pro with 4 Thunderbolt 3 Ports Wondering if anyone can recommend a Low Latency Audio Interface and suggestions of how to set this up with my equipment! Not even sure I would need an Interface with the Zoom R 24 but would appreciate any and all help! Thnx in Advance! Z
If you worried about low latency then you should look at a Presonus Quantum. At 600 dollars it might be out of your budget, but when it comes to latency there is nothing better for Thunderbolt 3.
I can vouch for the Quantum 2626 audio interface. I connect it to my Dell XPS 15 laptop with a thunderbolt 3 cable. JamKazam gives me a latency score of 1.5 ms! I've been using the Quantum for 3 months, jamming with 3 Ohio musicians. By contrast, the Focusrite Scarlett (with USB cable) scores no better than 7.5 ms. One quirk you should know - with the Quantum, I need to set the JamKazam frame size down to 1 ms. For some reason, the "safer" settings (2 or 2.5 ms) garble my sound. So I get a lot of jitter. It's a problem, but I can live it.
Faster, it not always faster. I have a couple of old MOTU traveler interfaces running with a MacMini 2011. My interfaces support thunderbolt, usb, and firewire. I use USB because when comparing the difference, there is none. With my USB 2.0 connect, my audio device latency is 3.2.
I'm using a Presonus Studio 24c on a Mac Book Pro M1.
Device Latency is 8.3 ms, not that low but enough to play with two friends.