Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
My interest is the new Fender audio interfaces. With 75 DB gain microphone preamps but I can't find the latency figures of these interfaces.
They look really nice.
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You’re not going to. Fender wants you to use a software app called Universal Control. It’s similar to apps used to compensate for latency but this it’s a whole lot more. Without it, many of the advertised features of the hardware will not work. Per the manual:

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Low-latency monitoring - Using Universal Control eliminates the latency associated with DAW I/O buffering that makes
monitoring problematic for the performer. By removing the DAW’s software input monitoring feature from the monitoring signal flow
altogether, the need to adjust I/O buffer sizes and latency is no longer an issue.
• Send / Cue buses - Universal Control has stereo aux buses, with independent send levels
per input.
• Configuration management - Universal Control configurations can be saved and loaded to / from disk

The generation of chips being used since 2019 have lowered hardware latency to the theoretical limit. This appears to be a new chip series with increased gain and 32 bit resolution (but not 32 bit float) but no one using it is publishing the hardware latency.

I expect that next week at NAMM I’ll be seeing more interfaces like this. Last two years, Fender showed only to their dealers but not to the general show attendees. It will be interesting to see if that changes this year.

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