[linux-audio-user] USB Quattro and Jack questions

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Austin hat gesagt: // Austin wrote:

> On 2003.05.27 07:42, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> >It's highly unlikely that jack and usb will work well with low lat at any 
> >sample rate.
> 
> I was leaning towards the quattro USB.  Are you saying you've NEVER been 
> able to record four channels without dropouts?  Are you guessing the PCI 
> version (whatever it's called) would have fewer dropouts with jack?

I don't think, that this is what Patrick meant. USB is not really
suited for very low latency applications because of how the bus
handles the data transport. But with a bit higher latency settings, it
is no problem to record or play 4 channels without dropouts on the
Quattro. Nevertheless PCI is better, but not an option on a laptop.
For a standalone machine, I'd highly recommend a 'real' card.

ciao
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