> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 14:46, Florian Schmidt wrote: >> On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:32:10 +0200 >> > And, what are the minimum period sizes for both cards? >> > 64 for the RME afaik, does the Delta manage 32? Joachim Schiele <joachim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> my delta 66 handles 32 frames just fine :) I can even go down to 8 [just >> running jack though. haven't used it for anything serious, as the idle >> cycle load is already at 20% with this on my 1.2 ghz athlon :). no xruns >> though] >> >> As the delta 1010 is basically the same chip afaik, it should give >> identical results.. It does. However, I find that latency below 64 frames is nice for testing purposes but makes no noticeable difference when making music. > So one question still remains: what advantage(s) would a RME card have > compared to M-Audio? You get more channels for more money. I believe they are both good products and well-supported under Linux. -- joq
