Paul Davis wrote:
>>>Currently, I am trying to decide between an RME
>>>Hammerfall and an M-Audio Delta 1010 audio card. Just
>>>as the 3D provides video performance, the RME
>>>Hammerfall does the same for audio, off loading the
>>>audio processing away from the main cpu. The alsa
>>>project also says both cards are supported.
>
>
> this is an unfortunate reading of BS marketing text.
>
> the hammerfall series (digiXXXX and HDSP) do nothing of the sort, they
> never did, they don't on any other OS, etc etc etc.
>
> all that RME is referring to here are 2 things:
>
> a) direct monitoring without CPU involvement
> - well yeah, except that even consumer analog
> cards do that
>
> b) the card is a DMA busmaster, and so the CPU doesn't
> need to be involved in transferring data to the
> card, it just stuffs it into host-side RAM
> - well yeah, except that almost every other
> PCI card on the planet *except* RME's
> earlier designs do this too. this is
> really just an apology for the incredibly
> stupid design of the digi96 series, which
> require active participation by the host
> CPU to move data to the card.
>
> --p
>
>
>
That explains why this was cheaper at the time (over a year ago)
I thought I would get this as:
1 It was supported
2 I could add more cards as the system grew
3 The website seemed to infer Linux Support
I didnt really worry about monitoring and latency as I was using the DDX
and this controlled the monitors as in most analogue studios.
Apart from Word clock the HDSP card didnt seem that diffrerent.
It's a shame RME have allowed the marketing depatment to run the company!
Cheers
Bob
Bearmusic
hearmymusic.co.uk <http:www.hearmymusic.co.uk>
