[linux-audio-dev] Re: GPL Audio Hardware

[Dmitry Baikov]

On 4/4/06, torbenh at gmx.de <torbenh at gmx.de> wrote:
> how expensive is a firewire port ?
> firewire stuff is THE niche to fill.
> most newer firewire devices are not supported if if i understand
> correctly.

It's is THE niche if it can provide 1-3ms roundtrip latencies.
For now (under linux at least) PCI/PCMCIA is unbeatable.
If I remember correctly, Motu 828 II (fw) under Mac OS X gives ~280
samples in audio loop.
It's good, but on the edge of usability for realtime processing.