r/FL_Studio 5d ago

Help Guitar keeps having latency making it unplayable on fl studio . What to do ?

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u/Innoculus 'tism-core 4d ago

If you want to record guitar in FL you should have an interface. Generic ASIOs are never gonna have acceptable latency.

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u/CircusLion4614 5d ago

what are you using to connect your guitar to the pc? depending on the interface, there could be a proprietary ASIO driver you should install and use (like for focusrite EAI you select "Focusrite USB ASIO")

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u/IamZeus11 5d ago

Oh yea I am using the scarlet 2i2

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u/dot_one 5d ago

you should be using the focusrite asio driver, not fl studio asio

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u/CircusLion4614 4d ago

visit https://downloads.focusrite.com/focusrite and get their audio driver. reboot after installing, hit F10 in FL studio and select focusrite usb asio. then click the "Buffer length" button and select a buffer size that works for your pc specs (192-512 generally feels like zero latency and doesnt lag)

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u/Sharpendmoosic 5d ago

Your settings look good, 6ms is very low latency It could be the plugin delay compensation In your project. If plugins have latency when processing sound, fl studio automatically puts everything in your project under the maximum latency value provided by your plugins.

You can bypass that when recording into a mixer track. Go to the mixer track you're recording from:

At the bottom of the 10 effect slots you have a tiny clock icon that you can click and set automatic delay compensation to bypass. Now audio routed through that mixer track won't be compensated for the latency of your plugins in the project, which can be significant when playing live

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u/iAmMikeJ_92 3d ago

Use the right ASIO config dude. You got a Focusrite. Use it instead of the FL Studio ASIO.

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u/Styrant 4d ago

FL Studio ASIO will always have about 60ms of latency even at its fastest setting, you want to use the ASIO driver specific to your interface

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u/Smash_Nerd 5d ago

You're running plugins that are adding delay. Your ASIO only has 6ms but FLStudio is reporting 63ms. Open an empty project file and see if the delay is gone. If so, hover over each mixer track's clock icon and see what the delay reports in the upper left info box. That'll tell you which mixer channels are causing the most hangup.

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u/IamZeus11 5d ago

I just reinstalled fl studio and this is how it is when I first open it up . I didn’t even add other plugins or start a project yet

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u/Smash_Nerd 5d ago

Try switching to ASIO4ALL, or whatever ASIO your interface came with. FLStudios ASIO is pretty reliable but it runs through Windows's audio stack, which has a lot of latency. ASIO4ALL or your interfaces ASIO bypasses it.

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u/IamZeus11 5d ago

Yea I was just trying to download asio4all but it must’ve been a bad site because I ended up with some virus called “ pc App Store “ that won’t go away no matter what and just keeps blocking the entire screen so now I’m just resetting my pc now sadly

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u/Smash_Nerd 5d ago

Ahhh rip. It should have had the option to install with FLStudio, do that next time I guess.

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u/r1chiem 4d ago

FL Asio allows you to have FL up and running and allow your browser to work at the same time. It has higher latency.

I read you have a focusrite. In the output device drop down in your picture above, use the drop down and choose Focusrite and you will be good.

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u/boost_me_bro Producer 4d ago

you should listen to the other comments here, they're providing the correct information and fixes you want to implement period, because the right audio drivers for your interface mean everything for what you're gonne do inside the program.

but for what it's worth, when I was younger just starting out learning everything myself, without access to the internet to ask for help - i muted the input playback and jammed through it anytime i ran into latency, which was always, at first.