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So after even a bit more messing with settings, I now have my latency at 2.2 ms 😀 This is awesome!

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The MOTU M2 does have a button on it that lets me monitor what is being played (so I guess that is what they mean by direct monitoring), which I know that I can use, but I would prefer to hear the guitar with distortion if the end result is going to have distortion. Just to make sure everything sounds good as I’m playing it.

The image in that post was just of the splitter cable.

I found the ASIO setting and was able to select my audio interface, and by doing that, I’m getting about 4-5 ms of latency, which is awesome! I’ll still probably try getting one of those cables to see which method I like better, but thank you to everyone once again for all of your help! I greatly appreciate it!

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I’m using a Motu M2. I’ve installed the drivers for it, so I don’t know if it just isn’t showing up in the menu for some reason. It is an NVME drive, also.

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Holy cow this is all extremely helpful! Especially the stuff about recording guitar, because that’s something that I’m also doing. I’ve been recording my guitar using ASIO4ALL and getting pretty good results. The latency is usually under 10 ms, but I will absolutely try splitting my guitar cable so that I can hear what I’m playing with zero latency. Would I need something like this to do so?

And then basically have one cable plugged into my amp and one into my audio interface, right?

You have seriously helped out a ton and I can’t thank you enough!! 🙂 And thank you for taking the time to type all of that out!!

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I guess I started using ASIO4ALL when I tried using SD3 standalone, because I was getting a lot of latency using my audio interface’s drivers. I do have an audio interface, by the way! 🙂 Everything is on an SSD, but it’s on the same SSD. I did create a separate partition from my windows partition, however. I do have the “Cached” setting turned on in SD3 within Reaper. And I have 32 gigs of RAM. Is there a way to make sure SD3 is using as much of that as it needs?

I’m on a desktop, not a laptop. My CPU is an Intel i7-8700K, so I would think that would be good enough. But on the note of not using ASIO4ALL, I’m currently messing around with the other options in this window (see attached image). Which one of these systems would be the best one to use? And could you also help me with the settings that I should try once I select the best one?

Thank you again!…and again!!!

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Thank you both for your quick and detailed responses! So my audio interface was disabled in the MIDI Devices menu in Preferences, so you helped me find and fix that. And then after switching the input to MIDI on the track (which I don’t know how I didn’t think to do that) everything is working exactly how I would like it to be working!

One last question. I am using ASIO4ALL and I have the buffer size as low as possible, so the latency is pretty minimal (but that shouldn’t be a concern because I do plan to only hear the sounds coming from my kit, but record the SD3 sounds) but I do slightly hear that crackle sound when I have Record Monitoring On. Will that crackle sound show up in my recording or is that just something that I’ll hear as I’m playing it?

Thank you again! You have already helped a ton and made my life a lot easier!

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