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 jeu. 22 août 2002, 20:26
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 Anybody have any preferences or know of any issues or differences between the Motu 896 firewire outputs vs the PCI Card?I'm running a new g4 dual 1.25 |
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ven. 23 août 2002, 00:25
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Technicaly, those are quite different beasts. The PCI will *always* have less latency than firewire. Firewire doens't guarantee the bandwidth available, and there also protocol overhead etc. it's great for bulk IOs, but, like USB, the latency is omnipresent.
On a PCI card with a good driver, you have virtualy no latency (well, the size of your buffers) and also zero CPU impact if the card is bus master and uses DMA properly. -------------------- |
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mar. 27 août 2002, 00:50
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On a fast system you will be ok with firewire. I have to say stay way from USB audio, and if you looking at the 896, go for the 2408mk3 and a small mixer. the same price roughly and like buserror said minimal latency. and not much cpu consuption. This has always been the main thing on why macs are better for much then pcs. If you have a laaptop though, I would go for the 896, its a damn good unit.
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