QUOTE (jstcrsn @ Apr 17 2021, 01:54 AM)
back when I was buying my new computer I7 500ssd 32 ram, surely this would be enough so I did not spend the extra hundred for a thunderbolt , been kicking my self ever since
I find this really weird though and always have, as I'm running a by now quite old i7 6700k, 16 GB Ram recently upgraded to 32 and so on, and I've honestly never really struggled with latency, least of all when recording. I can usually go to 64 or 128 buffer size when using guitar plugins - or maybe lower if mic'ing up my amp, but I never needed that or tried it. I can usually run Superior Drummer 3, Trillian and Omnisphere meanwhile. At 128 the round trip latency is around 13ms (6 in, 7 out) and I don't think many would notice that.
It isn't untill I run A LOT of plugins and tracks that I start to get a bit of trouble, but in the mixing and mastering phase (with a lot more plugins) I just up the buffer size as high as it will go and I'm fine of course. My recent template I work with for the album I was working on has about 100 tracks and while I'm pushing my computer quite a bit, it's still going with it. It's mostly the CPU that's the problem.
Now, I'm not saying thunderbolt isn't better, just that I've never had the problem you mention.
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