In this blog post, I’ll help you uncover some of the best portable piano keyboards and midi controllers to use with your devices (laptops, Chromebooks, and iPads) and teach you to determine which features will be most meaningful for you so that you can purchase the best piano keyboard or midi controller for your teaching situation. But with such a wide range of prices and features, it can take time to know which one is right for you. Under some condition it can produce cracks/pops, but it is technically completely unrelated to the latency.As a music teacher, you know the importance of having a quality keyboard in your classroom. What can not influence the latency is the File System buffer size. The reason is still unknown (that problem is rarely reported, but people hit it from time to time). Interesting that I had no such problem with MPK Mini. Periodically I get huge MIDI (!) latency from different devices (e-drums, DP). So the best mode is particular interface dependent. At the same time a cheap tablet rocks with 'WASAPI', can not work with 'WDM/KS' and hardly usable with ASIO4ALL. My old M-Audio Firewire has approximately the same latency with both, but 'WASAPI Exclusive' is worse.

latest Behringer interfaces do better with WDM/KS. Note that ASIO not always gives lowest latency. I have not measured reported 6ms RTL, but the latency is definitively lower then with VS-20. These chips in ASIO mode beat in latency many low end interfaces. Note that I had to install Realtek original driver first and DELL specific on top of it to make my XPS work correctly while showing Realtek ASIO panel (somehow DELL has forgotten to include required module). For example latest Realtek chips (I do not know if your notebook has such). Many interfaces have best latency in ASIO mode. The only problem is that you can not get Windows audio (Youtube, etc.) when the DAW is running. Some interfaces have good latency in 'WASAPI Exclusive' and/or 'WDM/KS'. That gives worse latency possible, even on lower settings. In your original screenshots, you set the interface to 'WASAPI Shared'.

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