What about 0 Latency

[vgermani]

I keep reading about latency of audio cards with apps. Most I see are <10ms and the good ones are ~1.5ms. MOTU and others (I think ESI) advertise 0 latency. Is it truely 0? When do I really have to worry about latency?

I'm thinking of upgrading to a point where I will only use computer based mixing and have ~32 channels of analog into the computer without an external mixer.

So far, Sonar will be running the setup.

Thanks

[Boom]

All cards are capable of zero latency when monitoring "directly". No card is capable of zero latency when monitoring through native effects. The whole "zero latency" thing is just a gimmick basically. If you plug a microphone into a Soundblaster, the sound comes out the speakers with zero latency. If you open Cubase and do not have "direct monitoring" enabled then your monitoring through software then there is latency.