SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors
There’s all sorts at that price range. When you said the best then that covers into thousands. So if you are going to use live then surely it would be better to have multiple outs to the desk. You don’t mention your computer either as if a Mac you can get thunderbolt interfaces. You will need midi as well. Always useful depending on what module you have?
what you really need to be checking out is which have the lowest latency. The reason I spent a bit more and bought an RME Babyface pro fs is because of the great low latency drivers. Gearspace has a lot of info on interface latency.
SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors
I suggest going to the gearspace forum as I can’t comment on the interfaces you mention without researching them myself. If you dig deep you will see people who have problems with all interfaces so there are no guarantees. Does your pc currently run SD3 ok except for the latency? I ask as it is quite memory intensive.
I don’t know the ssl or how good it’s latency is. A lot of people have focusrite interfaces which seem ok. Unless someone comes on here and says they have one of the interfaces and it’s great it’s hard to say. Also they may have a much more powerful pc. This is why I think you should look at gearspace and search on other forums to see if anyone is using similar to you. I can verify that the Babyface pro fs works great but probably too expensive for what you are looking for.
SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors
I’ve been using a focusrite scarlet 2i2 for the past year, first on a PC and then on a Mac. Latency was improved incredibly when I first started using an interface on windows after using the regular onboard audio stuff. Not sure if the Alesis has usb midi out as this interface doesn’t have regular midi inputs but anything around this price point will be an improvement over what you have. You don’t have to break the bank to see a performance improvement.
Thanks for that input. The alesis does haveidi out. I was looking at the focusrite 4i4. It has midi in and out. If I can get it do to a millisecond or two that would be better than a second.
I’m not sure you will get it as low as 1/2ms. Anything under 10ms should be ok though. My Babyface pro fs which is renowned for low latency used on a i9 9900 pc with 32gig of ram runs big projects in Cubase at 64 sample buffers with about 2.5ms latency. If I was just running SD3 then I could go to 48 samples for the buffers which gives my about 2ms.
SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors
I’m not sure you will get it as low as 1/2ms. Anything under 10ms should be ok though.
It won’t be at 1/2ms. I would say total VSTi drumming latency should be under 10ms (at least module/trigger device latency has to be added to the audio stream out latency). 10ms ASIO out will be around 13 – 15 ms using Roland modules and much more with an Alesis Strike. So it’s no-go. I would definitely use a super fast ASIO device when using a quite slow module like the Alesis.
Im Mac only I’m afraid, defiantly a better option with its Core Audio built in. Im using a my Roland TD-17KVX drum kit and connect it to my iMac via USB cable. I have a Universal Audio Twin x Quad (4 internal DSP processors for DAW plugins) audio interface. Expensive, but its the best I’ve ever used and the sound quality is superb. can record with SD3 in real time with zero lag and can throw anything at it. The UAD Arrow Solo would bet another great slightly cheaper option to use with Superior drummer 3 if you don’t require lots of inputs. All Thunderbolt 3 connected. I do think there are USB versions for Windows also though.
Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7 Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)
