On Wednesday 01 June 2005 15:57, Robert Jonsson wrote: > Hi Joachim, > > On Wednesday 01 Jun 2005 14:59, Joachim Schiele wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 14:46, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > > On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:32:10 +0200 > > > > > > Mario Lang <mlang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > What about the driver quality? > > > > > > > > And, what are the minimum period sizes for both cards? > > > > 64 for the RME afaik, does the Delta manage 32? > > > > > > 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.. > > > > So one question still remains: what advantage(s) would a RME card have > > compared to M-Audio? > I use a Delta 44 all the time, they are very well functioning with good > sound quality. > I'd expect that you would be able to get even better sound quality using an > RME card... though at a considerably higher price. > > Several years ago we did some work (at my day job) with Hammerfall cards > and I recall that these cards provide their data in an noninterleaved > format. Since this is what you generally want it is possible the CPU load > will go down since decoding/encoding isn't necessary. Hey Robert, nice to meet you here! I think i'll buy something like this: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=46961&item=7326210154&rd=1 Compared to the M-Audio device it has good quality and can later be used with a laptop. But there is one thing that I don't understand yet. Most devices have I/Os but can a Input be also a Output? In that case there has to be a DA and a AD on the same port. So this device has 8 INs and 8 OUTs which can be used full duplex. I think that's what I would need. Greets, Joachim Schiele
