[linux-audio-dev] Hammerfall latency confusion in german "Keyboards" articles ?

Hi, I regularly read the german "Keyboards" magazine and in some occasions they tested some Windows softsynths/HDR apps and measured voicecount/number of parallel instances of plugins. They usually talk about "3 msec latency" case but in one occasion I've seen they talked about "1.5msec latency" too. I could be wrong but I assume they are misinterpreting "fragment latency" and total latency, fooling users into believing that the latency numbers they gave refered to the total latency. My question is: since the Hammerfall cards always use two fragments, are the buffer size (latency) figures shown in the diagram below: http://www.rme-audio.de/images/hdsp/mf_set.gif refered to the whole buffer or to a single fragment. for example take the 1.5msec (64 samples) case. Does that mean 64 samples in total (32samples/fragment = 0.75msec per fragment) or 64 samples per fragment (1.5msec per fragment thus a total 3msec). I'm sure Paul D. and other Hammerfall experts will be able to enlighten me. Sorry for the question but I just wanted to be sure that it's not the case where per-fragment latencies as sold as total latencies since lower latency numbers are always cool :-) cheers, Benno http://www.linuxsampler.org