Does the ASIO Buffer Size affect the tone?

[DanLights]

Sorry, english is not my mother's tongue. I want to know your experience in Spanish xTomx super english man.

And to laugh at lack of English knowledge a bit more, it's "mother tongue", or "native tongue", because "mother's tongue" sounds like literally the tongue that your mother uses to kiss your dad in dirty places

 

[LeSedna]

ASIO buffer size is a bit like penis length.

I'll let you meditate on that and choose the correct size.

EDIT : inB4 Skinny Viking's joke

 

[drew_drummer]

Buffer size *can* have an effect on the tone if the plugin is coded badly. IE: If they're not accounting for variable buffer sizes, you can end up with extra aliasing, ring-modulation, frequency modulation, and bit crushing. It really depends on the architecture of the plugin, but I'd say nearly all the time if a plugin does this, it isn't working properly.

 

[deLuther]

Exactly.
Especially there can be potential problem when buffer size is not the power of 2 (i.e. not 64, 128, 256, etc) if FFT is needed, but proper coding can remove this problem.

 

[Scottxx]

So xTomx, to add something else. There are other guys who think like me that there will be a sound difference in some badly coded drivers. I've experienced that once with ASIO4ALL drivers but never again with Focusrite own drivers.

 

[drew_drummer]

Exactly.
Especially there can be potential problem when buffer size is not the power of 2 (i.e. not 64, 128, 256, etc) if FFT is needed, but proper coding can remove this problem.

Yup, another good point.

 

[Mutant]

Would be interesting to do a null test then to see exactly where the differences are.
Can you name 1 plugin that behaves like that ?

 

[UncleBob]

You guys are talking about something faulty, if everything is working properly then there should be no difference at all.

 

[drew_drummer]

Would be interesting to do a null test then to see exactly where the differences are.
Can you name 1 plugin that behaves like that ?

You guys are talking about something faulty, if everything is working properly then there should be no difference at all.

As I said:

Buffer size *can* have an effect on the tone if the plugin is coded badly