On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:47:13 -0400, "MSchmidt" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>But regardless of which is becoming more popular or not, at equal quality
>specs, which of PCI, PCIe, Firewire or USB is most likely to provide the
>fastest response? (ie, lowest latency)
>
>"drichard" <DRichard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:76752f4c-f6a2-4c4e-bcf4-d77303fab422@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Hi,
>
>There is a new standard, PCIe, which seems poised to take over for
>most purposes. But for audio interfaces, firewire and USB have become
>prevalent, which I don't consider good news. I hope that there is
>enough demand that PCIe audio interfaces will start to appear.
>
I've used A MOTU 2408 MKI PCI for years... only now do I want to get
into the soft synth realm. Well Updated the mother board... long story
short... I have to update the PCI card to their PCI or PCI (E) variant
firewire card because my motherboard's bus is bascically too fast for
the card and after the buss cache is filled the card rolls over
(glitch spike) and either woulld BSOD the machine or now with new
settings just tells Sonar it's had enough and sonar croaks.
PCI-E (x) is in alot of new PC motherboards and all the macs as well.
I would of went with the new MOTU 833(??) the one with the onboard
la-2a type compression and etc. If I didn't just buy the konnect live
mobile firewire interface which kinda does some of the same things on
my laptop, I would of usedthe motu for both. This update $302... is
the lesser of the two evils I guess.
How this started.. I was using B4... loaded up Atmosphere.. and ran
fine... restarted machine next day worked on same song.. POOF BSOD.
I had read awhile ago about MOTU's old cards needing to be updated
because they weren't 100% compt with newer motherboards.... for just a
couple channels in/out audio... it was... anything else.... well its
the price you pay to stay current I guess.
Bill
Rampage Sound Studios
Lancaster, Pa
http://www.rampagesoundstudios.com
http://www.myspace.com/rampagesoundstudios
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