[LAU] Successor/replacement for RME HDSP+Multiface?

[Kazakore]

On 01/09/14 16:50, Joakim Hernberg wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:27:24 +0545
> dale <dj_kaza at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I sometimes think the hunt for super-low latency is a bit absurd! 3ms,
>> to give you a 6ms round trip, should be a workable amount for pretty
>> much anybody and most I expect could cope with quite a lot higher (not
>> many working methods require the full round trip!)
> I think that might be explained by "hidden" hardware latency, e.g my
> multiface has 32 frames of hardware buffering, and then the ada
> conversion takes another 15/16 frames. In effect meaning that apart
> from the latency set in jack, there is another 95 frames of latency
> going from analog input to output.
>
> Other hardware can add a lot more "hidden" latency, and so do the
> usb/fw bus.  This can be checked relatively easily with a loopback test.
>
Yeah there will always be some processing/propagation delay. Too often I 
swear you just hear people hunting after figure and not even realising 
once they get the a point the hardware delays are actually going to be 
larger than the software delays and it's a world of diminishing returns...

Dale.