On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:54:50AM +0200, Michael Rudolf wrote: > studio-64 wrote: > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > He probably just got the impression that all non-firewire RME stuff > > > was well supported under Linux. That's what I thought... > > HI > > I too thought this of RME, their website is a bit ambiguous to say the > > least. > Well yes, they are not very clear as to the differentiation of their cards, > i.e. what card is good for what kind of use. I even got a printed ad here > where they're marketing the digi96/8 series as "the all-in-one tool for > professional harddisk recording". > > I can say the cheap(!?) Hammerfall lite I have works on all the Linux > > system I have used, with very low latencies. > Still digital I/O only, right? > > He should contact RME direct and let us know the outcome, they seem to > > be a Linux friendly company. > I'm not quite sure what I should expect from them. They won't trade in my > card since I bought it used, and I'm not too positive they will supply me > with a low latency driver for Linux ;) > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > How exactly does the hardware design not play nice with ALSA? Does it > > > need variable period sizes to do low latency? It seems like the ASIO > > > drivers must be able to do < 3-5 ms on Windows or it would not be > > > marketable... I'm able to run the digi96/8 pad at 2 periods of 256 frames at 48kHz. I think that corresponds to ~10 ms for playback latency and ~5ms for capture latency. That is, if I'm understanding the jackd manpage correctly ...
