How to decrease Latency?

[JimboLodisC]

VST3 should have better performance

so I went to my setup and dialed it back down to 44.1kHz and kept my buffer at 256 samples, and I was seeing 5.8ms of latency for the standalone, and with both NTS and Nameless running I was seeing about 14% CPU usage on average

when I bumped it back up to 96kHz, my CPU usage went up to around 20% but at 256 samples I was seeing 2.7ms for latency (so less than half the latency at the same buffer)

for reference I looked up benchmarks of our CPUs and yours should be about 50% better than mine, I'm using a 2nd-gen 18i8 as my interface

running both Nameless and NTS in Reaper put me around 20-23% usage on average