Every millisecond of latency is approximately equivalent to moving 1 foot away from
your speaker. So, if you wear headphones with a system that has 5 ms of latency,
you’ll experience the same amount of delay as if your head was 5 feet away from
your monitor speakers.
Periodically visit the Firebird Visionaries Club website to check for updated drivers
that may improve performance.
If you also use software synthesizers, use your DAW’s “freeze” function (if available)
to disconnect some synths from the CPU. Or, render a soft synth’s output as a hard
disk audio track (then remove the soft synth), which is far less taxing on your
processor.
Hint:
If you retain the MIDI track driving the soft synth, which places
virtually no stress on your CPU, you can always edit the part later by re-inserting the
soft synth. Freezing frees up CPU power for additional processors like Guitar Rig 4.
With Windows machines, use Device Manager to disable wi-fi devices and web cams.
To do this, right-click on My Computer, and select Properties. Then select Device
Manager. Right-click on any device you want to disable, and select “Disable.” This
device can be re-enabled at any time by right-clicking on it and selecting Enable.
With Windows machines, disable system sounds. Go to the Control Panel and open
Sounds. Under Sound Scheme, choose “No Sounds.”
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