Latency issue despite ASIO Drivers and Dedicated soundcard

Hi,
I have recently bought a U-phoria UM2 external USB soundcard by Behringher specifially for recording audio with (vocals) but I am having a nightmare with latency.
I'm using Audition CS6 on a desktop (i5, 8GB RAM, SSD Hard drive) and CC2014 on a laptop (also i5 8GB RAM, SSD Hard Drive).
I've checked the ASIO driver settings and tried lowering the buffer (down to 128, i get glitches with 64), the monitoring still comes out delayed...it's impossible to sing over. I've navigated all the options and menus I can think of and tried all the forums to see if I could get any tips from already answered posts but haven't found a specific case similar to mine (most have standard audio cards or no ASIO driver and seem to have solved by simply installing one of the two).
I doubt this is of any interest to the case but I'm using a Shure Beta 58 and a PG 58 to record.
Any idea on how I can proceed to solve this?
Help would be much appreciated.

darkdragonlon wrote:
Any suggestions?
Yes. Follow ryclark's advice and press the "Direct Monitor" button on the front of the UM2. And yes, pressing the "I" button in Audition does mean that you are trying to monitor yourself through Audition, with the delay (latency) that your computer is causing. You need to be able to listen to the already recorded tracks and hear the vocals you are adding without any processing delays. Direct Monitoring sends the audio from the computer to your headphones at the same time as the signal coming into the interface from your mic, which is also routed directly to your headphones, without first going through your computer.

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Also, tweak your system for music - http://www.musicxp.net/
Some information on CT ASIO -
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...essage.id=1726
jutapa
Message Edited by jutapa on 12-17-200606:01 PM

Latency issue despite ASIO Drivers and Dedicated soundcard

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