[LAU] Firewire at last

[Max]

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looks like once a technology is obsolete and depreciated it is mature
enough to run well under linux.
:D


On 2014? 04? 21? 04:48, Jonathan E Brickman wrote:
> Almost a week ago, I finally got around to ordering Firewire, in
> the form of the Behringer FCA202.  And I have to admit that I am
> quite shocked with how well this unit, the least expensive new
> Firewire interface of which I am aware, is working.  I had not
> before heard of any expression "Once you try Firewire, you don't go
> back," but certainly I won't be going back by choice.  It was a
> simple lock-and-load, no adjustments other than telling the modules
> to load at boot and setting the Jack driver to firewire, and the
> result was astonishing, beautiful quality sound, zero hiccups, no
> problems at all, all load levels.  And I don't have to worry about
> its USB A port!  Yahoo!!!!!
> 
> And it is interesting, it is by way of this FCA202 that I learned
> that although the Zitas were working, there was additional latency
> occurring in the jack-to-zita offload.  It was audible but barely,
> which presumably means something like 4-6ms.  My testbed for that
> is playing a MIDI keyboard in piano mode while simultaneously
> sending the MIDI data to drive the synth; I play live like that
> fairly often, and although the tiniest difference in attack is
> acceptable, the Zita method was giving me a bit more, which I
> brought to almost-AOK by giving the Zita process 80-level priority
> in schedtool, but which the FCA202 knocked out of the park.  I
> played through the FCA202 this morning, and it was astonishing, the
> detail of the tone quality, in both highs and lows.  And I haven't 
> even tried 96 kHz yet :-)  I do not know frankly know whether my 
> Yoshimis and Fluidsynths will play ball well with 96 kHz, I do not
> know whether it is a very tested configuration.
> 
> -- Jonathan E. Brickman Ponderworthy Music | jeb at ponderworthy.com |
> (785)233-9977 | http://ponderworthy.com
> 
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