EZDrummer latency in DAW (Mixcraft 8 Pro studio)

[JNS WRNHD]

As of only a couple of days the live recording of drums via EZDrummer into my DAW has a latency. It only concerns one project. It is not the most “heavy” project audiofile-wise and, as i said, it just began the other day. I´m thinking that i´m overloooking something, but … Scenario: i´m working with a project that has a EZDrummer drumtrack already set (on single track inside DAW, not with “follow host”-feature), but i feel that i´d like to add a conga on a other single track and i choose to record it live with EZDrummer. This is when the latency kicks in. When having the EZDrummer open and trying to play each conga in tempo with the song i get a pretty large gap between tapping the virtual drum and hearing the drum sound. Help?! / Jonas

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[Henrik Ekblom]

1. Check your buffer size in your DAW, decrease it to get lower latency (but not so much that you get noise crackles due to CPU overload)
2. Check if you have any plugins that adds latency. Mastering plugins, such as iZotope stuff, will often add latency. In many cases it’s not enough to just turn off the plugin, you may have to remove it to get rid of the latency…
Your DAW may have a “low latency” mode that you can enable while recording. I use Logic, and it has this feature.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
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