I have been using the overhub vst plugins of my digitakt , rytm mkii and analog mkii for a while now , and its been working great!
Only problem i have is with the latency they add , so to be able to use them i have to turn off plugin latency compensation and mute the track with the plugin (audioi goes through my interface) , luckily this way keeps the syncing correct, but theres also the problem of plugin latency compensation being off, and the tiny irritations this can cause !
A delay of 18 ms might seem not very significant , and in many ways it is , but it is enough to sufficiently impact my ability to record with my midi keyboard to feel the need for a zero latency version of the overbridge vst plugins , meaning one that does not produce sound , just keeps sync and makes it possible to edit and store your sounds and patterns etc.
anybody else seeing they could benefit from this ?
I can see the benefits of zero latency ad-da conversion; but the technical impossibility of it at the same time too…
Yeah, the latency is a show stopper for me as I run my guitar through NI Guitar Rig and OB bumps the latency project wide and so affects my guitar signal. Currently running an apogee Ensemble Thunderbolt at a roundtrip latency of 1.8ms… Your report is 10 times that and I think it’s just output latency, where my spec was input and output latencies combined, others have reported 30-60ms. As a live instrument player anything over 10ms starts getting me out of the groove, 10 isn’t really that great even, prefer 3-5 zone…
Before I get some kind of responses telling me this or that, I’ll say OB is freaking awesome and I love it and not downing it one bit, just telling my truth as simple as that, unusable for me… I worked all year in 2013 and barely did anything fun to afford my 1.8 ms box as my previous one was 10ms and even that was too much.
to be more specific , a zero latency version would mean no sound coming from the plugin , only sound through the outputs on the box , into a audio interface and then a audio track in a daw for monitoring and recording
Here I am using overbridge for the sole purpose of DAW project recall (not USB audio stream)
The vst overbridge plugin is great for me as the recall of RYTM&aKEYS settings. For sound i find it is still much better to use hardware output/input.
In your DAW The midi driver you use also has an impact. There will be the standard Overbridge midi driver and the usual device driver. The Overbridge midi driver causes latency, the other is O.K here.
Using Cubase 8.5 and no latency issues using Overbridge this method.