omtayslick said:
marshall409 said:how has no one helped you yet man?
i am able to record tracks on time with no noticeable latency on a built in consumer sound card. just download asio4all and be done with it. explore all your settings and you should be able to get down to a very workable latency no problem.
Adam
marshall409 said:firewire definitely does own, but when i make the jump to pro gear, unless a major change happens, ill probably go pci. the price:number of tracks ratio is really no comparison. i know thats not the most important thing, but in the price range im talking about, i dont think quality is gonna vary much.
for example, on the cheap:
200 dollars get you 8 in/8 out on a m-audio delta1010lt pci card. minor inconvenience of a pci card and rca breakout cable, but...
200 dollars pretty much gets you jack shit in the world of firewire. maybe a nice 2x2 interface, maybe 4x2 im not really up to date on the newest stuff.
for some reason, firewire interfaces seem to lack alot in terms of OUTS. dont forget about outs, they are important too. alot of people may just see a firewire interface with a ton of inputs, but i dream of a rig that includes a mixer/console and hardware effects sends. i want more outs than ins.
the omega should do you just fine imho. im still struggling by with a crap soundcard, only record one track at a time.
but ya ive heard alot of problems with omega drivers in reviews.
Adam
amra said:People can call bullshit about the USB to firewire latency comparisons all they want. The bottom line is, throughput does not equal latency. Firewire uses a dedicated chip to process the signal, and USB ports depend on the CPU. Because of that USB will always have higher latency when compared to firewire regardless of the potential bandwidth.
sonnylarsen said:Your latency is also going to be affected by buffer sizes. The lower your recording buffer sizes are, the lower your latency will be. You will have to hunt around your preferences to find the setting, but you usually can set it from 128 samples up to 2048 samples (usually 128, 256, 512, 1024, and 2048). Also, the lower these settings are, the harder recording and playback will hit your CPU. If your settings are too low for your CPU to handle, you will get dropouts, pops, clicks, etc. so experiment.
Ultimately in Pro Tools M-Powered I use 256 samples for recording and 1024 samples during mixing (so I can use lots more plug-ins). That gives me a latency during recording of 4ms, which is pretty good. 10ms isn't bad either though. With my old sound card and SONAR I was running and 12ms and never had a problem.
Newbie-Doo said:I reinstalled my old Echo Gina 20-bit PCI card and played around with the sample rate. Recording one dry track with the sample rate set to 64 I am able to get the latency down to 1.5ms with no pops or clicks. Guess that settles it. I wanted to move "up" to 24-bit, but the Lexicon is going back and my Gina20-bit is staying in service.
64 would be a buffer size, not a sample rate, Newbie.Newbie-Doo said:Recording one dry track with the sample rate set to 64 I am able to get the latency down to 1.5ms with no pops or clicks.