Re: RME PCI cardbus vs Firewire

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Per thanx,well there it is i should have done a bit
more research before buying;-(
i ordered a fireface which cost much more thinking it
would upgrade my multiface which i was thinking of
selling,yesterday i plug it in and did some
recording,and it seems to sound better and its limiter
is quite handy but i did notice that is slower on my
system than the multiface,I called RME and they said
that shouldnt happen that i should buy a better
firewire card like the texas instruments chip
ones,unfortunately there arenīt many RME fireface 800
users reviews outhere but i sure hope that can solve
the problem...
Luis




> 
> By technical specifications the PCI (and PCMCIA
> cardbus) protocol is  
> slightly faster than firewire 800. Firewire 400 is a
> little bit  
> faster than USB 2. But how this affects the system
> depends also on  
> how you use it (multi track?)  and how you combine
> it with other  
> gear. For example a lot of audio channels going
> through a firewire  
> interface may work less stable if also a firewire
> drive is used on  
> the same port for file storage or sample streaming
> playback. Also,  
> some audio interfaces don't perform so well if MIDI
> cc data is  
> shuffled through its MIDI in/out port (as is the
> case with my RME  
> Multiface and that's why I use a separate USB MIDI
> port to get the  
> optimal audio performance out of the PCI or Cardbus
> connected  
> Multiface).
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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