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<blockquote data-quote="Karl Lies" data-source="post: 105721" data-attributes="member: 5327">Re: X32 Rack as a Soundcard interface....for an ekit....Depends on exactly how you&#039;re looking to run things. If you&#039;re going to just use the drum VST and simply send it out, via usb, to the console then latency of the VST, USB link etc... is really irrelevant (who cares if sound actually comes out of the speakers 37 ms after you pressed the &quot;Play&quot; button on the drum vst). On the other hand, if you&#039;re thinking in terms of playing the drum VST from the attached laptop via USB, and simultaneously trying to play other instruments, along with the drums, into the console AND you want to send those other instruments out of the console, into the PC for multitrack recording, now you&#039;ll have sonme weirdness to deal with since the other/external instruments will sound to be &quot;in time&quot; with the drum playback but the subsequent multitrack recording will sound out of time (the external instruments will slightly delayed behind the drums).Reason being is that when you hit play on the drums VST, system latency will cause you to not actually hear the drums through the speakers immediately (lets say you have a 20ms delay here). So, you hear the drums start, you start playing along with them but now, the external instruments that are playing along with the drums will suffer an additional latency when you send them back to the PC for multitrack recording (let&#039;s say that this &quot;return trip&quot; latency might be another 20ms). The result will be that the external instruments will end up being around 40ms late, relative to the drum&#039;s vst (the combination of the outbound latency of the drum vst plus the inbound latency of the external instrument tracks).Entirely fixable, in post production, by time shifting the external instrument tracks but you&#039;ll probably have to play with the time shift to get everything to drop into a good groove.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Karl Lies, post: 105721, member: 5327"] Re: X32 Rack as a Soundcard interface....for an ekit.... Depends on exactly how you're looking to run things. If you're going to just use the drum VST and simply send it out, via usb, to the console then latency of the VST, USB link etc... is really irrelevant (who cares if sound actually comes out of the speakers 37 ms after you pressed the "Play" button on the drum vst). On the other hand, if you're thinking in terms of playing the drum VST from the attached laptop via USB, and simultaneously trying to play other instruments, along with the drums, into the console AND you want to send those other instruments out of the console, into the PC for multitrack recording, now you'll have sonme weirdness to deal with since the other/external instruments will sound to be "in time" with the drum playback but the subsequent multitrack recording will sound out of time (the external instruments will slightly delayed behind the drums). Reason being is that when you hit play on the drums VST, system latency will cause you to not actually hear the drums through the speakers immediately (lets say you have a 20ms delay here). So, you hear the drums start, you start playing along with them but now, the external instruments that are playing along with the drums will suffer an additional latency when you send them back to the PC for multitrack recording (let's say that this "return trip" latency might be another 20ms). The result will be that the external instruments will end up being around 40ms late, relative to the drum's vst (the combination of the outbound latency of the drum vst plus the inbound latency of the external instrument tracks). Entirely fixable, in post production, by time shifting the external instrument tracks but you'll probably have to play with the time shift to get everything to drop into a good groove. [/QUOTE]

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