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#Focusrite asio driver windows 10 drivers

NOT ALL SOFTWARE ALLOWS THIS but most recent DAWs should. Your DAW/synth permits you to adjust the latency settings in WASAPI mode.The solution here only works if you want to make music and just do that for a while – you can’t, for example, watch YouTube while composing on the same machine. You don’t open any other sound-using programs, like web browsers.

You use exclusive mode in your DAW/synth with your sound device, which requires that….

Your computer is in high performance mode or equivalent and plugged in.

On a lot of newer machines with an up-to-date Windows 10 version, you can get surprisingly good performance out of WASAPI drivers, which every on-board sound device should have. However, the general tricks here are applicable to any Windows 10 machine where the operating system version is up-to-date as of mid-2019. I’m going to using my Surface Pro 4 as a specific example for each step, both because the latency issues of the on-board audio for Surface series in music-making is very well documented (via sites like ) and because I love my Surface Pro 4 as a general-purpose device to take on the road.

No amount of settings fiddling got me the performance I wanted from on-board chips on Windows machines, so I just resigned myself to dragging around an external audio box whenever I needed to make music on the go with a Windows laptop.

#Focusrite asio driver windows 10 drivers

Sometimes you can get away with up to 15ms, but by the time you hit 20ms or higher, you’ll likely hear the lag and it will be hard to play in time.įor many years and prior versions of Windows, even Windows 10, I found that achieving acceptable audio latency with a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) or stand-alone synthesizer required ASIO drivers – which exist for most external audio interfaces but not for most on-board sound chips.

In order to play a MIDI controller through a virtual instrument and have it feel responsive, the total latency (delay) between key press and sound typically needs to be 10ms or less, which is to say below the threshold at which we can detect it with our ears.