Behringer UFO202 Latency

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How close to real time processing can the UFO202 come? Is it possible to route input to this device through a software plugin (which one?) on a laptop and use it as a (cheap) compressor/limiter/expander processor? I want to warm up a microphone going to air on a "low powered" FM broadcast. Thx.
 
I don't have one but every thing that I could read about mentions nothing about latency with that unit.



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Im not sure why people keep buying these for recording, they are for connecting RCA outputs to your PC, like record turntables..

from Behringer themsleves

"The Behringer UFO202 is a high-quality USB audio interface with built-in phono preamp and massive software package for digitalizing your tapes and vinyl records"


these are not good for recording vocals or instruments...at most they can be used to monitor
 
Latency is very low and pretty good even for guitar. You can use every high quality software effects with it and the A/D converter sound very clean for that money. Much better than the average laptop soud chip. but the problem is I cant mute the input channel. Is there anybody who can tell me how to mute the bare input signal so i only hear the asio full duplex output? this way its bullshit and the real time processed duplex sound is unusable. If you want to record the mic in advance this is the cheapest way to get good results.


edit: btw. it has no mic in. so you need a mixer or a mic preamp
 
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kcearl said:
"The Behringer UFO202 is a high-quality USB audio interface with built-in phono preamp and massive software package for digitalizing your tapes and vinyl records"


these are not good for recording vocals or instruments...at most they can be used to monitor
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Yes because it is lacking a possibility to mute the input channels loopback. it seems to be ment to record while monitoring the input signal and afterwards apply possible filters and effects. althoug it features asio full duplex drivers with low latency. Not even the behringer support was willing to tell me that. They said i should check my software setting. That was very confusing.
 
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I own a UCA202, I find the latency bad enough that it wrecks the joy of trying to use guitar amp sims. It is pretty low noise though. So if you don't needed to hear back real, real, time it will work. If I remember right the lowest latency I could get was about 25 milliseconds. For real time monitoring I like to have latency less than 10ms.

So I guess the answer as to if it will work for you, I guess it depends. If your just wanting to make some kind of interview/speech broadcast I would probably be fine. If your wanting to use your PC as an effects loop for a guitar while playing 16th notes, probably not so much. As I said it works, It just wrecks the joy.


Racherik
 
Racherik said:
I own a UCA202, I find the latency bad enough that it wrecks the joy of trying to use guitar amp sims. It is pretty low noise though. So if you don't needed to hear back real, real, time it will work. If I remember right the lowest latency I could get was about 25 milliseconds. For real time monitoring I like to have latency less than 10ms.

So I guess the answer as to if it will work for you, I guess it depends. If your just wanting to make some kind of interview/speech broadcast I would probably be fine. If your wanting to use your PC as an effects loop for a guitar while playing 16th notes, probably not so much. As I said it works, It just wrecks the joy.


Racherik
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I have not worked with it alot but you can put it as low as 2ms input and 6ms output latency maybe it starts cracking. The "bug" with the UFO-202 remains the input signal. I now realised the UCA has a harware switch to mute the input signal. The UFO is lacking this essential switch so at least get the UCA-202. The UFO is useless there is no way in monitoring a clean Processed stereo signal.
kcearl was absolutely right. :o


cheers
 
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Well its quite a while after for a reply, but can't you just set the playback device as your laptop and have the UFO just as a recording device?
 
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