- BEHRINGER USER MANUAL

GUITAR LINK UCG102

3.3 Device drivers and latency

A device driver is an interface that ensures

communication between the software (audio

application) and the hardware (your UCG102). In

recent years, the PC platform has witnessed the

establishment of several different driver models

for sound cards. Some of these drivers cannot be

used for simultaneous recording and playback or

for working with software plug-ins, since they do

not support the full performance provided by

professional sound cards and cause a long time

delay (this is called “latency”).

With standard Windows applications, you don’t

need to worry about which driver is currently being

used by the operating system. You only need to

select the correct playback device via the Windows

operating system’s “Control Panel”.

However, as soon as you start to produce or record

computer-based music and work with special

audio software such as Cubase, Live, Logic,

Tracktion, or others, you should make sure that

you selected an ASIO driver. This driver model

supports the full range of functions offered by

your hardware and gives you the best

performance.

With the USB Audio Driver, we have already

included one of the fastest ASIO drivers currently

available.

You will normally find the selection of a driver

model for computer hardware in the standard

default settings of the software you are using. If

necessary, check the documentation for your

software. Use the control panel to set up a lower

latency. The smaller the value, the better. If audio

dropouts occur, try increasing the latency in stages.

With the OS X operating system, there is only

one driver model, the CoreAudio driver. Thus,

there’s no need to worry about selecting a driver.

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