23 Feb
2021
23 Feb
'21
6:02 p.m.
lacuna_(a)gmx.net writes:
In my research on Linux audio laptop with high channel count, I
decided to use a desktop with a RME HDSPe card.
The only ways I can see, how it might be possible to get many hq i/o
channels on a laptop:
- The closed AVB-driver.
- Older firmware version of Motu AVB is running at up to 48k.
- Firewire, but Firewire is dead.
It is? I am using it with my Thinkpad T420 (which has Firewire at its
back, admittedly after I spent about $10 for an assembly having a
Firewire connector rather than a phone modem socket) and the 18 channels
(16 in and Main Mix) of my Mackie Onyx 1620 mixer.
By the way: using an RME Multiface via an Pccard adapter in an
Expressbus-to-Pccard adapter is much lower in latency (about 2.5ms I
think rather than something akin to 10ms), never mind the adapter
stackup.
- RME Madiface with missing Express Card slot on
today's laptops.
- Maybee a tunnel through Thunderbold with a Sonnet Echo Express (this
works with Macbooks, but does Linux and Thunderbold?)
Thunderbolt to Firewire adapters are still around from Mac times.
Please correct me, if I'm wrong.
Probably not all too much. I know that my gear is not exactly the
youngest.
--
David Kastrup