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I used RTL Utility to fire some pings through my FM9, Kemper and QC this evening out of curiosity.
On the FM9;
With an input, amp, cab and output blocks, I'm getting 221 samples / 4.6ms.
When I add in a Drive block I get 257 samples / 5.35ms.
My main lead sound in my main patch which is a drive, amp, cab, delay, reverb and filter is at 296 samples which is 6.16ms.
Delays and reverbs don't seem to do anything to the latency though I’m not sure why my lead scene has more latency.
Kemper seems to hover around 3.3-3.5ms unless you enable "Constant Latency" whereby it then hovers around 4.9ms.
Quad Cortex totally depends on how many Captures/amps you have in a preset.
If I go in, amp, IR, out, I get 106 samples / 2.20ms.
Replacing the amp with a capture, I get 121 samples / 2.52ms.
In a loaded example, using two rows and having 6 captures in the preset but only using one at a time with an IR, it's between 279 and 281 samples, so lets say 280 which is 5.8ms.
If I stack two captures at once (say a TS9 and an amp) it’s 315 / 6.56ms.
If I replace the OD capture with the OG OD block with a TS9 and stack it into an amp, I get 300 / 6.25ms.
The first patch you see on QC, Brit 2203, comes in at 213 / 4.43ms, roughly identical to the FM9's baseline.
What does all this mean? I presume I'm not measuring it as accurately as it should be as Cliff has stated it's 3.3ms with an amp and a cab, but that said, if I take 1.3ms off of all of the above, that makes the Kemper unrealistically fast at 2ms, so I can't imagine they're that far out? Either way, weirdly enough, despite being the fastest, the Kemper seems to feel the most disconnected in a weird way so I'm not sure what all of this means ultimately..!
On the FM9;
With an input, amp, cab and output blocks, I'm getting 221 samples / 4.6ms.
When I add in a Drive block I get 257 samples / 5.35ms.
My main lead sound in my main patch which is a drive, amp, cab, delay, reverb and filter is at 296 samples which is 6.16ms.
Delays and reverbs don't seem to do anything to the latency though I’m not sure why my lead scene has more latency.
Kemper seems to hover around 3.3-3.5ms unless you enable "Constant Latency" whereby it then hovers around 4.9ms.
Quad Cortex totally depends on how many Captures/amps you have in a preset.
If I go in, amp, IR, out, I get 106 samples / 2.20ms.
Replacing the amp with a capture, I get 121 samples / 2.52ms.
In a loaded example, using two rows and having 6 captures in the preset but only using one at a time with an IR, it's between 279 and 281 samples, so lets say 280 which is 5.8ms.
If I stack two captures at once (say a TS9 and an amp) it’s 315 / 6.56ms.
If I replace the OD capture with the OG OD block with a TS9 and stack it into an amp, I get 300 / 6.25ms.
The first patch you see on QC, Brit 2203, comes in at 213 / 4.43ms, roughly identical to the FM9's baseline.
What does all this mean? I presume I'm not measuring it as accurately as it should be as Cliff has stated it's 3.3ms with an amp and a cab, but that said, if I take 1.3ms off of all of the above, that makes the Kemper unrealistically fast at 2ms, so I can't imagine they're that far out? Either way, weirdly enough, despite being the fastest, the Kemper seems to feel the most disconnected in a weird way so I'm not sure what all of this means ultimately..!
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