# Samples to ms option

**URL:** <https://forum.waves.com/t/samples-to-ms-option/8951>\
**Category:** Live Sound & Broadcast\
**Created:** [March 8, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.waves.com/t/samples-to-ms-option/8951 "2024-03-08T13:34:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tejadasonido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/76d3ee/32.png) [@tejadasonido](https://forum.waves.com/u/tejadasonido)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.waves.com/t/samples-to-ms-option/8951/1 "2024-03-08T13:34:41Z")

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Could you put an option to change the latency view from samples to milliseconds?

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**Author:** ![simon.a.billington](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.waves.com/simon.a.billington/32/158_2.png) [@simon.a.billington](https://forum.waves.com/u/simon.a.billington)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.waves.com/t/samples-to-ms-option/8951/2 "2024-03-10T08:07:21Z")

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Is this in relation to a specific plugin?? I do think this can be helpful overall though.

Generally speaking though, you’re looking at 44.1 samples for 1 millisecond at a sample rate of 44.1kHz. Likewise it would be 96 samples for 1 ms at 96k. It would be nice to not have to do the math though.

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**Author:** ![tejadasonido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/76d3ee/32.png) [@tejadasonido](https://forum.waves.com/u/tejadasonido)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.waves.com/t/samples-to-ms-option/8951/3 "2024-03-10T11:17:10Z")

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No, I meant that you could change the latency indicator when adding plugins to the audio chain from samples to milliseconds.

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**Author:** ![simon.a.billington](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.waves.com/simon.a.billington/32/158_2.png) [@simon.a.billington](https://forum.waves.com/u/simon.a.billington)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://forum.waves.com/t/samples-to-ms-option/8951/4 "2024-03-15T02:15:19Z")

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Yeah, I got ya. This still would be a good idea. It’s more intuitive for most users to work with milliseconds as opposed to samples.