Superior Drummer 3 to OBS Studio for recording and streaming (lag issue)

[@bawacus]

Hi drummers,

I have a problem I wish to identify regarding lag from Superior Drummer 3 to OBS Studio.

Here is my set up:
My Roland TD17 KVX into a Mac (2012) which runs Superior Drummer perfectly fine, no lag.

I am then connecting the Mac to an audio interfact (Scarlet Focusrite) which extends to another laptop, which I am hoping to stream with; this laptop is connected via a digital audio mixing desk so as audio is supported correctly.

Now, OBS has managed to pick up all the signals, but there is a noticable delay between hitting my drum kit to when the signal reaches OBS studio and I am at a loss with what to do. If anything, I am emulating set-ups posted on Youtube, and I am aware that lag has been fixed for drummers that stream on Twitch etc, yet I cannot locate the issue. There is around half a second lag when playing.

I have checked the buffer size and the output from Superior Drummer is around 3.0, but I can’t get this any higher (2.0 would do the trick)

Has anyone got any working templates from a similar problem? Are there any streamers out there that could share their own set up thats works?

Thank you for reading,
Aiden

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[Shootie]

In OBS. On your audio input>Advanced Audio Properties>Sync Offset. Type ms value here to resync video to audio. It’s standard practice to fix the sync here. 1000ms = 1 second.

*OBS will never receive video from one source and audio from a separate source and be in sync. You must manual line everything up with the sync offset.

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[@bawacus]

Thank you for your reply – very much appreciated.

So, I have already tried to experiment with the sync offset in order to match the audio, but the audio itself isnt actually matching with any visuals or video and is just strictly the audio from SD3; it appears to be lag from the audio setup, from SD3, when it reaches the laptop I wish to work with OBS. There’s half a second delay when hitting the kit, to the time it reaches OBS Studio.

I’m wondering why this is?

Could it be the buffering output of the Mac with SD3 on it? Could it be a wire? Is it one of the audio interfaces?

As a note: the latency from the Mac I’m running SD3 off to the drumkit has perfect sync, it’s just when I wire everything up to another laptop that there’s that huge delay.

[Shootie]

Why do you need it to show up on time? OBS, to my knowledge, is not meant for realtime playback. I have a super rig, I do not get realtime playback from OBS.

If the audio is later than the video, add a video filter “video delay”. I feel like you can add a ‘negative’ ms value in the audio field as well.

You say you have a second Audio Interface feeding OBS, see how to control it’s buffer setting and lower it.

Your goal and use of OBS is not perfectly clear to me, hence the multiple suggestions.

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