On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Monty Montgomery <xiphmont@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> One thing I noted is that it seems to be a bit more CPU-intensive than >> using my old PCI SBLive soundcard, but I guess this is to be expected. > > IIRC, the Focusrites only accept 32 bit input at the hardware level, > and USB is also a more CPU-intensive bus. It has to be supervised > continuously, unlike PCI[-x/-e]. > > I'd been unaware of the 2i4 before this thread; the 2i2 is a very good > little box, and I had been wishing it had 2 more outputs... Yep. It also has Midi in/out too.. for those legacy keyboards/sound modules.. and the zero latency headphone mix is very useful. I think the 2i2 also had some trouble clipping with hot instruments. The 2i4 has a -10dB pad which helps with this.. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
