I did a careful review of the whole thread, and here's my conclusion:
darkinprg didn't actually perform any test data that really gave us isolated performance figures. What he did do was complain about synchronisation issues when MIDI or outboard audio signals were involved. The video he linked shows a 14ms delay configuration, but nothing about the setup behind it.
However, the latency that I actually measured appeared to be consistent, and more-or-less reasonable in the general field of MIDI and DA/AD conversion activities. So much so that he could basically fix it according to his original post with an included delay - an 8ms delay that wouldn't even really show up as flamming, so much as some comb filtering on a duplicated signal, and substantially inaudible when comparing unrelated signals (such as a kick/hat).
He makes a point about being an IT guy and working for a music shop (a juxtaposition which raises some questions of its own) but doesn't address questions that would be logical in any serious problem analysis, nor address how a larger studio deals with this sort of problem. He just, in his own words, wants to "AS A CUSTOMER I AM INTERESTED IN PLACING THE DEVICE ON MY DESK AND HAVE FUN" without tackling the problems of studio arrangement, and without actually reporting comparable performance numbers on anything else.
Delving into my own murky past, if he were my customer I'd probably reach for the bottle of aspirin and the wineglass before prefacing my next sally with: "Please work with me here ..."
For what it's worth, there are plenty of search results, for those so inclined, on octatrack MIDI latency, and darkinprg doesn't address the detailed setups for the sake of comparison, let alone measured latencies at different stages, so who really knows what his problem is. He hasn't told us enough to know.
And we may never know, because he returned the Force and is now apparently sulking about not being able to get it to work. Oh, well.
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