Warren in Canada Posted August 17, 2023 Share Posted August 17, 2023 Hey folks, Anyone using thunderbolt 3 audio interfaces with cakewalk? How is it and which one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Roseberry Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 Been using an Antelope Orion Studio Synergy Core for a couple years. Love it. Great fidelity Ultra low round-trip latency (sub 1ms) Good sounding onboard Preamps/DIs Onboard DSP for processing/routing/monitoring Proper re-amp outputs Rock solid performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOOK Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 (edited) I am as well with a Lynx Aurora 8 and an Asus add-on thunderbolt 4 card. The add-on card was a little tricky to get running, but it has proven solid. Edited August 21, 2023 by HOOK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Nicholls Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 Presonus Quantum 2626 checking in. Only problem I've had so far is remembering to turn on its power before running Cakewalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSteven Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 On 8/20/2023 at 7:03 PM, Jim Roseberry said: Been using an Antelope Orion Studio Synergy Core for a couple years. Love it. Great fidelity Ultra low round-trip latency (sub 1ms) Good sounding onboard Preamps/DIs Onboard DSP for processing/routing/monitoring Proper re-amp outputs Rock solid performance Expand Hi Jim, What sample rate do you have to use to get that latency? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Roseberry Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 (edited) On 8/22/2023 at 8:34 AM, TheSteven said: Hi Jim, What sample rate do you have to use to get that latency? Expand Hi Steven, Orion Studio Synergy Core's round-trip latency at 96k using a 32-sample ASIO buffer size is 1ms. Takes a monster of a machine, but you can run some things (ToneX) with ASIO buffer size of 24-samples or even 16-samples. Both of those settings yield sub 1ms round-trip-latency. I prefer an audio interface that doesn't (itself) put a hard cap on lowest possible round-trip-latency. Only (effective) limiting factor is the speed of the machine. Edited August 22, 2023 by Jim Roseberry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Roseberry Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 On 8/22/2023 at 5:06 AM, Colin Nicholls said: Presonus Quantum 2626 checking in. Only problem I've had so far is remembering to turn on its power before running Cakewalk. Expand Presonus Quantum was their first (IMO) great audio interface. Rock-solid... and super low round-trip-latency Later Quantum interfaces maintain that same level of performance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSteven Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 On 8/22/2023 at 1:55 PM, Jim Roseberry said: Presonus Quantum was their first (IMO) great audio interface. Rock-solid... and super low round-trip-latency Later Quantum interfaces maintain that same level of performance. Expand I'm using a Quantum 2 with an Apple thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapter and as Jim states I can get a great low latency latency @ 96k using a 32-sample ASIO buffer size. I can get close to 1ms latency if I turn off all the various processes running on my mixed use computer (OneDrive, etc.) and if I'm going light on plugin use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavv Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 I am using Universal audio into computer with Thunderbolt 3 no issues...have used it for a couple of years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOOK Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 On 8/25/2023 at 7:16 PM, Stavv said: I am using Universal audio into computer with Thunderbolt 3 no issues...have used it for a couple of years. Expand Interesting. When I built this PC (late 2022) I also purchased an Apollo X6 to go with it. I had non-stop computer crashes with the Apollo on Thunderbolt. Change sampling rate...blue screen. Change buffer size...blue screen. I sent the Apollo back and picked up the Lynx Aurora - and I've been stable since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Roseberry Posted August 29, 2023 Share Posted August 29, 2023 I used an Apollo 8 and Satellite for a few months (connected via Thunderbolt-3). It was rock-solid. Round-trip latency is about the same as the best USB-2 audio interfaces (not UA's forte'). Also, I didn't care for the onboard DI's. To my ears, they impart an exaggerated "tubby" type tone to DI guitar. IMO, not flattering to the guitar (especially when using amp-sim plugins). That's why I moved to an Antelope Orion Studio Synergy Core. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dahjah Posted January 1, 2024 Share Posted January 1, 2024 (edited) On 8/20/2023 at 7:03 PM, Jim Roseberry said: Been using an Antelope Orion Studio Synergy Core for a couple years. Love it. Great fidelity Ultra low round-trip latency (sub 1ms) Good sounding onboard Preamps/DIs Onboard DSP for processing/routing/monitoring Proper re-amp outputs Rock solid performance Expand I just got this interface a few months ago, one of the best audio decisions I made this year, I mean last year lol Edited January 2, 2024 by dahjah 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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