# Solve latency in Waves Nx artist rooms

**URL:** <https://forum.waves.com/t/solve-latency-in-waves-nx-artist-rooms/9713>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [August 12, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.waves.com/t/solve-latency-in-waves-nx-artist-rooms/9713 "2024-08-12T18:57:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![JunkyardSam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.waves.com/junkyardsam/32/2178_2.png) [@JunkyardSam](https://forum.waves.com/u/JunkyardSam)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.waves.com/t/solve-latency-in-waves-nx-artist-rooms/9713/1 "2024-08-12T18:57:41Z")

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Waves Nx is awesome, I have all the rooms and I like ARS as well.

However – the newer rooms (Abbey Road Studio\*, CLA Nx, Germano Studios, Ocean Way) were programmed in a way that requires over 500 samples of PDC latency @ 48khz. That’s 11.2ms of delay at 48khz. (This latency isn’t reported in ARS, and there’s about ~5ms of latency in the original Waves Nx which isn’t reported either.)

While that’s no problem for someone who only mixes, 11.2ms is an amount of latency that someone playing a live instrument like a guitar or keyboard – especially percussion – can feel…

That may not sound like a lot, but this is in addition to the round-trip latency already present from an audio interface. This subtle latency results a less precise performance(recording) for live instruments or keyboardists who don’t quantize.

Competitor products offer fully real-time performance:  
Apparently with FIR captures (which I assume is how it’s done?) you choose between phase alteration or pre-ringing from linear phase. And Waves went with the latter.

Since you have the captures, maybe ARS & the Nx line could be updated with a zero-latency option! You could do it in the plugin itself, or release them as separate “Live” versions similar to AR TG Mastering Chain Live.

Please consider this. A zero-latency option for real-time performance, composition, and recording would be a big improvement.
