Sound Cards

This may seem like a complete noob of a question but i just never got a good answer. Audio interfaces are quite expensive and i understand all the slots on them but my question is will getting an audio interface for my laptop/desktop help with the latency in my DAW? Like will it help get rid of the crackle and pop sounds?br
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Thanks

Yeah most audio interfaces will give take all the audio routing and processing load off your CPU. br
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CPU still has to do all the actual dsp of the plugins etc but the interface handles bussing the audio around and asio drivers talk to your computer at a lower level so bypasses the OS - CPU - OS - interface round trip that happens with windows audio drivers.br
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Mac OS built in drivers are actually very good so you won’t notice as big a jump if you are mac based but it will still improve.br
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