What Do I Need To Spend to Get My Audio Latency Down?

[TonyD]

Right now I have a Dell 7480 Latitude that's a couple of years old and a Behringer UMC22 interface.  I'm getting 20ms audio latency and it's not cutting it with my band.  What do I need to do to get down around 6ms audio latency?  (I'd really prefer to stick in the Windows world and not go Apple.)  Any budget-minded suggestions or technical advice appreciated.

Thanks,

Tony

[drp1098@hotmail.com]

The UMC202HD costs less than $120 and has an OEM ASIO driver. I saw ~4ms latency in the Audio Gear test. I/O 400, Var 0.12 - 0.42.

The UMC22 uses the Windows USB Audio CODEC native driver. I does not have good latency, 10+ms, and there is no OEM ASIO driver. I have not seen improvement when using ASIO4ALL with this interface. The native driver was actually better.

[henryhank@live.ca]

Found this youtube review of the UMC22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g98J36XmDhQ&t=322s) and it suggests using this driver (BEHRINGER_2902_X64_2.8.40) that can be found here; https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%...NiQQ%3D%3D

This is working great for me now with 6.9ms latency.

Hope this helps.

[StuartR]

Found this youtube review of the UMC22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g98J36XmDhQ&t=322s) and it suggests using this driver (BEHRINGER_2902_X64_2.8.40) that can be found here; https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%...NiQQ%3D%3D

This is working great for me now with 6.9ms latency.

Hope this helps.

If that doesn't cut it, you can switch to a MOTU M series interface and get 3 msecs latency.

[GDJ]

Disclaimer, I am Mac user but agree with Stuart that maybe it's time for an interface. I will say too, I have an old computer; Mac is 2015, and found that even with a good device driver that I was high CPU useage affecting my device latency and frame rate. I know use a dedicated SSD boot drive with a clean OS with nothing but then the OS, JK, and Audio Device Drivers. I already have an older MOTU interface. What was 8 ms and CPU at 30%, is down to 3.5ms and 12-15% on CPU. This is because i no longer have background apps running and calling home, also contributing to internet latency. I believe for Windows you have OS settings for power consumption, etc to make sure resources are dedicated in full, so JK can run better. Hope what I said, applies.

[graham]

Found this youtube review of the UMC22 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g98J36XmDhQ&t=322s) and it suggests using this driver (BEHRINGER_2902_X64_2.8.40) that can be found here; https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%...NiQQ%3D%3D

This is working great for me now with 6.9ms latency.

Hope this helps.

I have tried this with my UMC22 but when I try to create a session a message pops up after a while to say "The audio system has not reported your configured tracks in a timely fa$on. Contact support".
Depending on what I click on, I also get two Behringer Control Panels popping up, one on top of the other. I close the one on top OK but when when I close the other one JanKazam crashes. Did you experience any of this? If so how did you solve it.

Many thanks