However, I don't think the latency on AVB will be usable when performing live.Īny thoughts or tips on optimizing AVB on OSX?Ĭolinbart wroteI can't speak on this because I don't own a StudioLive III or a mac, but the reported latency for the Studiolive MkIII is 1.9ms. I thought AVB was supposed to have better latency / performance, and I don't like having to sacrifice 16 ins/outs by switching back to USB. This results in only about 6-7ms roundtrip latency. However, if i connect with USB, I get much better latency by about half, and I can even go down to 64 samples with no distortion or clicks / pops. Any smaller of a buffer and i get audible distortion.
When hooking this up to my daw on my maxed out (2.9 ghz, 16gb ram) 2016 macbook pro using native AVB, the best I can do is 14ms or 15ms roundtrip with 48k and 128 sample buffer.
Question about latency when using Series III 32R. I saw this on facebook, but my ipad won’t let me copy the link Then core audio can create a virtual AVB sound card in the same way Audinate has DVS.
or 10ms (actually less if you actually measure it) with just Via.Īs colinbart said, Macs are not AVB devices, nor are they Dante devices, they just happen to have the correct network chipset to pass AVB which PCs don't. Dante can do latency down to 0.125ms with the right hardware. Whatever method you use, you need a master clock of some sort.
Karyn wroteIf all you're doing is passing audio from one PC to another, why do you need lower latency than Via can provide? It was a nice thought though.ītw, what is the rtl using the slmk3 avb and a mac if you were to run plugins on the mac inserted into a channel/bus? At least until someone develops an avb virtual soundcard, but that will probably cost some money and probably not give me any 1-2ms rtl. This is obviously not possible according to the info given. I also wanted be able to have plugins and vsti’s offloaded from a master daw computer running on a secondary computer so low latency/rtl is a must.
This is for my own pleasure but I also looked into having a licence free way of distributing networked audio without the use of 3’rd party hardware and thought that maybe the native avb on macs was a viable solution. If you want to simply stream audio between two computers, I'd recommend taking a look at Dante Via. As of right now, I'm not aware of any AVB soundcard that isn't outrageously priced. Mac's are NOT AVB devices, they're simply able to recognize AVB devices as Core Audio devices. If what you're asking is if you can simply stream audio between two Macs using AVB, you would need to have an AVB sound card installed on each computer. However, As far as I know, Presonus has not yet engineered the ability to have digital splits with AVB the same way it works for Dante. If you wanted to integrate 2 computers and a mixer, you would then need to use an AVB compliant switch to enable connectivity between the three devices. With how Presonus has engineered AVB for series III mixers, you can simply plug your AVB compliant computer (AKA Mac) into the device and you're rolling. it simply becomes a point to point connection, with each device assigning itself a link local IP address and one of the two devices taking over the role of preferred master (clock). Everything you need for total creative freedom.With Dante, you actually don't need a network switch to set up connectivity between two devices. Now, for KOMPLETE’s 15th anniversary, you can have it all again with the new Collector’s Edition – more than 150 instruments, effects, and Expansions, all at an 85% discount. Back in 2003, we put everything we had in a box, added a huge saving, and called it KOMPLETE: Nine plug-ins, 23 CD-ROMs to hold it all, and the rest is history.