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+1. In Ableton on Windows you can get your latency down to ~40ms without a dedicated sound card using ASIO. Mac's drivers are even better with sub ~20 ms on my m2 pro IIRC.

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+1 to the comments here. Part of the issue here is running these applications in Python. It's not really optimized to handle these loads and do DSP-based compute efficiently.

> Mac's drivers are even better with sub ~20 ms on my m2 pro IIRC.

Just to be clear that you're measuring apples to apples with OP:

You are measuring less than 40ms roundtrip latency on your Mac. Is this correct?

You seem surprised, but any sort of live production requires this. Check out SonoBus, it achieves adequately low end-to-end latency even with network delays in the mix.

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