Latency is the time taken for the recorded sound to be processed by the computer and returned to your headphones. If you have given your computer a lot to process (many tracks and plugin effects) you will hear a very noticeable delay as you record audio making it very difficult to stay in time with your music. to control latency we can adjust the buffer.block size (how much audio the computer will process before playing back the sound). If we give a low size the audio will pl

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