latency for recording.

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trying to record my guitar but im not very good and the timing gets messed up whats the best latency, i have it set at 200 or 500 ms , but it sounds like its coming in early now how is that even possible.

[preqwal]

try 256 or 128. Sample size should go up in multiples, like ram. eg. 16,32,64,128 etc.

[JZTR]

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[tape smoke]

it seems no matter how good i play , i always gotta move the track around a bit and then it sounds normal.

[preqwal]

What audio interface you using? And what software?

[tape smoke]

im using my laptop soundcard with ardour gtk , but i guess i should be recording on my tascam 24 track recorder, but i didnt figure out transferring files usb yet. to drag the files over and mix on ardour.

[preqwal]

Laptop sound cards are notoriously crap. You should buy an audio interface if your looking to record on your computer. You could also try asio4all as the asio driver. I use this on the crap pcs at school and it shorts out midi latency, although I ain't tried it for recording.