Using GarageBand > JK reduced my latency

[bonehead]

My songwriting partner & I have been banging our heads against JK since the start of the pandemic, and only in the past few weeks gotten it to work at all (he lives out in the desert and he had issues with the way his ISP had him set up; he needed to get a new router).

We're still having latency/jitter issues, but have been making incremental improvements.  We both got Focusrite Scarlett 2i2's, and installed their Mac driver to reduce latency.

I followed Eric McQuaid's instructions on how to have GarageBand's output feed into JK (see below - thank you!)
I was expecting an increase in my own latency, and surprisingly it's gone down.

Here's the numbers:
10.3 with 2i2
7.8 after driver installed
5.6 with GarageBand

Any ideas why?

[ivarevan@yahoo.com]

can your reference me to the pointers about how to route through garage band? very interested.

thank you,
evan

[bonehead]

can your reference me to the pointers about how to route through garage band?  very interested.

thank you,
evan

Oops - I meant to post the link.  Scroll down to the bold text for instructions:

https://forum.jamkazam.com/showthread.php?tid=292