Re: [LAU] consolidating a firewire sound card with my other existing pci (alsa) soundcards

Athanasios Silis <athanasios.silis(a)gmail.com> writes: How is 0-latency supposed to work with unsynchronised clocks? If you want to consolidate multiple soundcards without adding significant latency for resampling filtering, they must be running on the same clock (which means that it's mainly comparatively expensive soundcards that can be consolidated). Even then you'll not be able to split a stereo channel across two non-identical cards without introducing problems from the differing phase response of their oversampling and filtering circuitry. Synchronisation can happen in some cases via Firewire (for example, if you daisychain multiple Alesis i|O 26 devices) but more usually with a separate word clock sync cable. For juggling numerous sources, there can be a point in getting a mixer with digital multi-channel in- and output. That means you don't need to consolidate multiple soundcards but rather get to work with some flexible multichannel device. That tends to be quite more robust. -- David Kastrup