powercore question

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I am thinking of adding the tc powercore card to my computer for the
awesome reverbs it has. I have heard a lot about the powercore's
latency when recording. And tc's website even says that the poco is
optimized for a buffer size of 1024. With my RME hdsp9632 this results
in a latency of 23ms. What I would like to know is does this latency
involve playing in real time with effects? What if you are simply
playing back an already recorded audio track and just want to apply
powercores effects to it? Does the latency and buffer setting still
come into play or does it not matter.