oh, i need the low latency :-( by the way ... does anyone is able to hear a difference between the multiface and the multiface2 when i understand it right an can use both with pcmcia and expresscard right? olaf Dmitry Baikov schrieb:

Am Freitag, 1. August 2008 schrieb Florian Faber: Hypothesis: People saying that they need low latency without stating what for usually don't need low latency. At least not in the time-range they say. Or they are coming from the other os where low latency means something between 20ms 200ms (opposed to 2ms to 10ms in the linux world). @sh0099: If you are coming from win and asio reports a low latency of <10ms, be aware that this is not round-trip latency that asio reports. Add transport-buffers and adc/dac buffers and maybe even some os-specific delays to that. And only trust the real round-trip measurements. Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a "rm -rf /". Or ask your administrator to do so...

Am Freitag, 1. August 2008 schrieb sh0099: I don't know because: Think about what you are talking here: 5ms latency (round-trip) is what the sound needs to travel 1.5 meters. A normal electric guitarist on stage has more distance between his amps and his ears. The main part of a classical piano is that far away. The second violins are further away from the first violins. And don't even talk about organs... But while talking about organs: People can compensate for these kinds of delay. Organists are quite used to hearing the sound a lot after they pressed the key. It is true that anything above 50ms is hard for playing piano. But for anything between 20 and 50ms you can compensate easily. And below 20ms you only hear the delay with good practice and playing percussion sounds... The problem with these discussions is that most people come from the asio-damaged world where 5ms latency actually means something lot more. While on linux 5ms is more or less 5ms latency. And that is good enough for live foh-mixing. (I did so with my firepod). Most probably due to the fact that the firewire transport adds some latency. And if your driver doesn't compensate for that and takes it into account, your latency is higher then what asio tells you... Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a "rm -rf /". Or ask your administrator to do so...

Am Freitag, 1. August 2008 schrieb sh0099: All I can say is that my laptop with a presonus firepod and freebob was good enough to do live foh mixing. ;-) But on firewire I would say get a saffire, there is one with adat-io so you can attach your favorite high(er) quality converters... Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a "rm -rf /". Or ask your administrator to do so...