On 7/3/2019 2:36 PM, Bob Simon wrote:
I had imagined that there might be work flow benefits if the interface and DAW were made by the same company. No? In any case, it sounds like you believe that any such advantage is small compared to the better quality of mic preamps in Focusrite interfaces. Did I interpret that correctly?
You did. There's some useful integration features between the newest
series of PreSonus StudioLive consoles and Studio One, but if there's
not much they can offer other than the fact that the Studio One
recognizes the PreSonus interface that you have and can pre-configure
the channel input and output layout. And on the newer interfaces with
digitally controlled mic preamps, you can adjust the gain from the DAW
program without reaching over for a knob or opening the interface's
control panel application (which you'd have to do to set up a monitor
mix in the interface's mixer anyway).
We're a long way from the days when actual latency (as opposed to the
number that's advertised or read off the numbers in the DAW software)
was ten milliseconds or so. It's not hard to play with a couple of
milliseconds of latency unless you're a really fussy drummer. You won't
hear an echo or doubling with "normal" latency.
Where it gets annoying is when you're singing or speaking, and you hear
your voice through your head, mixed at your eardrum with what's coming
back through the interface. In the range of 1.5 to 3.5 milliseconds
difference, unless your headphone volume is considerably louder than
your natural voice in your ear, you'll hear comb filtering on your
voice, which makes you sound funny. Some people never notice it, some
are really bothered by it.
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