and hearing the sound at the output. Fortunately, with today’s computers and low-latency
sound card drivers, this delay is usually very low (e.g., three milliseconds is about the same
delay caused by fingers snapping one meter away from your ears). Latency must be kept at a
minimum in order to make software instruments and DJ applications playable.
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 ↑5.1.1, Audio Settings Page (Windows) and ↑5.2.1, Input Pane (Mac OS X) for instruc-
tions on how to adjust buffer sizes, sample rates for shorter latency.
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 ↑5.1.2, Diag-
nostics Page for mor 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.
8.3 Different Types of ASIO (Windows)
It is extremely important to use the dedicated ASIO driver written for the KOMPLETE AUDIO 6
and installed during software installation (chapter ↑2, Installing KOMPLETE AUDIO 6). Howev-
er, ff your system also provides generic ASIO drivers, typically called ASIO DirectX Full Duplex
Driver or ASIO Multimedia 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.
Appendix
Different Types of ASIO (Windows)
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