Hi Guys,
I’m after an interface I can use with my laptop when I’m away from my home studio.
On paper, the Line 6 Toneports look just the job (I have a POD and so am familiar with the sounds it makes). The only thing was the “near zero latency monitoring” it taks about.
On my system, I am used to true zero latency hardware monitoring so is the Toneport near enough for this?
Also, I understand that the Gear Box software has to be running on the laptop all the time - what is the processor/memory overhead for this?
Thanks,
There is no such thing as “true zero latency monitoring”. The best they can do is "close enough to zero you’ll never notice it."
I don’t know what the Toneport’s latency is, but if it’s below a msec or three, you won’t notice it. That’s equivalent to moving your monitor speaker a foot or three farther from your ears.
Regardless, your question is valid and I’ll be interested in the facts – how near to zero is the Toneport?
The processing and memory overhead should be negligible, unless they’ve goofed.
Hi there,
I have have been using a Toneport GX for about a month now and love it. Latency is not a problem, to my ears anyway.
I am using an old Win XP laptop that has slightly less ram than the minimum recommended and it runs the Gearbox software plus n track and heaps of n effects with no problems. Gearbox gives some extra sound options of plugging a guitar straight in and using Line 6 modelling or using a microphone to record an amp.
An acoustic plugged thru the toneport with no amp modelling sounds very natural sounding.
Quote: (learjeff @ Apr. 28 2008, 9:04 AM)
There is no such thing as "true zero latency monitoring".
The best they can do is "close enough to zero you'll never notice it."
When I said I was using "true zero latency monitoring" I meant that my input is routed directly to my headphones without being processed by anything else so the only latency is the time it takes the electricity to go through the wires (at the speed of light).
It's good news that people seem to be sayiong they have got it down so you wouldn't notice (or so it's no more than the latency of standing a few feet from your monitors). Certainly, when I have tried to monitor from certain sound cards (without the direct link between input and output) the latency has been enough to notice and, more importantly, to put me off. Not sure what this equates to in milliseconds.
I wonder why Line 6 don't quote any figures for latency?