Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 - Different Types Of Asio (Windows)

56–KOMPLETEAUDIO6–Manual
HowLowCanYouGo?
1.5 ms of latencyapproaches the theoreticalminimumbecause it will always take some
timetoprocessinformationinacomputer.Notethatultra-lowbuffersizesettings(aswell
ashighersamplerates)makeyourcomputerworkharder,whichcanaffecttheperformance.
See6.1.1(Windows)and6.2.1(MacOSX)forinstructionsonhowtoadjustbuffersizesand
sampleratesforshorterlatency.
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ForWindowsusers:Ifyoucannotgetridofaudiodropouts,cracklesandnoisesbyad-
justingbuffersizeandsampleratesettings,youmightalsocheckyoursystemforDPC
latencyproblems(seethe“SystemPerformanceTest”sectionofchapter6.1.2formore
infoonDPClatency)usingtheDPCLatencyCheckerprogram,whichisfoundontheweb
athttp://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml.
10.3 DifferentTypesofASIO(Windows)
ItisextremelyimportanttousethededicatedASIOdriverwrittenfortheKOMPLETEAU-
DIO6andinstalledduringsoftwareinstallation(chapter3).However,ifyoursystemalso
providesgenericASIOdrivers,typicallycalledASIODirectXFullDuplexDriverorASIOMul-
timediaDriver,andyoucannotgettheKOMPLETEAUDIO6drivertoworkatlowlatencies,
trythemallandchoosetheonethatprovidesthebestperformance.