> No need to scurry actually. > There seems to be a steady stream of Audiophile 2496's, Delta 44's > 66's, 1010LT's and 1010's flowing through the system. Awesome. > <FYI> > There are a few Audiophile 2496's selling for as low as $129.00 on > the "Buy It Now" button. I haven't followed anything to completion > but the 2496 that ends auction in 13 hours is currently at about > $100.00. [...] > </FYI> Excellent, thanks Jos. > I'd like to save some $$ and het the 1010LT, but I am curious, > has anybody had trouble with having that rats nest of cables behind > the computer? Seems like that would be noisy. Well, if everything's digital (MIDI + S/PDIF), I guess it doesn't matter much, but if you're running analogue stuff back there it might start to get a bit furry. > Also, how many inputs can you *really* record at once without xruns? > I'm running a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 in an Ice Cube small footprint system. I would suspect it's more dependent upon the audio card (and your destination hard disks) than CPU these days. Audio's only about 90KB/channel per second @ 44K/16-bits. Even 32 channels of this is trivial for modern RAM/HDD speeds. I would be really shocked if a modern P4/DDR/ATA-100 based system can't record 32 channels without incident, assuming the audio interface is high quality with sensible bus-mastering DMA driven I/O. Peace Jos! =MB= -- A focus on Quality.
