EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> Some confusion here.
> 
> Gareth Jones <g@...>
> 
>>> >  > Latency is going to big a major issue when you move away from PT.
>>> >>
>>> >>  RME interfaces have digital i/o, good sounding Analog i/o and LOW
>>> >  > latency.  I use mine with Apogee Mini-Me
> 
> Andreas Gill:
> 
>> >     Why is latency going to be a bigger issue than on other interfaces, ex.
>> >MOTU or Metric Halo?
> 
> I don't think it is, but if so it will have to do with the driver and
> also how low a buffer the hardware is happy working with. MOTU can
> work with a 64K buffer, I believe, and PT's minimum is 128K (which I
> haven't tried yet - the 128K Stream Manager in OS 9 didn't work).
> Plus ESB has a little more latency than some other sound card drivers.
> 
> Now, that latency is for audio coming out of the computer, i.e. how
> long it takes between hitting your MIDI keyboard and hearing the
> sound.
> 
> The latency Gareth is talking about is when you're recording live
> instruments, which have to go through the computer; Pro Tools *TDM's*
> (not the Pro Tools LE systems') live recording latency is pretty much
> down to the converters themselves, so it's only a couple of
> milliseconds, like on a digital mixer.
> 
> ***HOWEVER*** all three cards mentioned above - RME, MOTU, MH - have
> onboard digital mixing, so you can monitor the live input through the
> card and get the same 2.5ms latency. As a matter of fact, I believe
> those are the only three cards with that feature.
> 
> I don't know much about the Rosetta 800, but if as I suspect it does
> have standard native audio latency, you could use one of the above
> cards instead of its Firewire option - in other words, you'd just use
> the Rosetta as a converter and connect its digital I/O to the sound
> card.
    
    Ok, I think I get it! Thanks guys!
    Andreas



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