6 Sep
2012
6 Sep
'12
7:08 p.m.
On 6 September 2012 at 10:01, "Len Ovens" <len(a)ovenwerks.net> wrote:
MB manufactures have not really built with audio use
in mind
(or perhaps any RT use) except for the internal audio IF which
you will notice has the highest irq (which has the highest
priority on an OS that doesn't have secondary prioritizing like
Linux) And that it does not share it's irq with anything. And
they are not even looking for low latency. New MBs expect any
timing critical to be in the PCIe slots... They figure the old
PCI stuff was used to slow machines ... Still a good bios may
be able to change this. Maybe take one of the slots out of PNP
mode and assign a clear or almost clear irq (may have to be in
the 1-16 range) The MB may then work around that.
Tell me about it. I have need for high channel counts. My drums
alone really want 11 channels. I'm not hearing good things about
trying to chain multiple high channel count firewire interfaces.
I don't see any audio interfaces built for new PCI slots. That
leaves me with legacy PCI, and MB manufacturers are leaving that
by the wayside. Ugh.
Again, thanks for the advise....
--
Kevin