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Hi,

> With All the raves I hear about the Hammerfall series sound card, I
> think I want one.

Welcome to the club of happy users! :-)

> But why would I want the Hammerfall series card over
> the Digi96 series card? Does the digi96 series feature the same low
> latency as the Hammerfall for virtual instrument plugins, like my
> EXS24/ES1, and others.

The 96/8 eg allows for a latency of 6ms, whereas the Hammerfall allows for
1.5ms (which actually works in many cases on my Celeron 500!)
Also I _think_ (not sure at all) that the Hammerfall has some better
technology: I'm not sure whether both cards use the same technology. The
Hammerfall has part of the driver burnt inside a chip or so.

> I'm currently using a Gadget Labs Wavepro 824, with my
> PIII450/100mhz bus and 256ram, and I may be getting around 12ms
> playing response.

Which is still nice imo!

> I would love to get that down to the 1.5-3ms that
> the Hammerfall series is supposed to achieve. Can I get that with the
> Digi96/8pst

Digo 96/8 has 6ms minimum afaik.

> I can get by with just a single ADAT interface at a time,
> and the spdif interface, and the stereo analog I/O is fine for me. I
> can always add the analog option if I need more analog I/O's than
> that.

You could get the Hammerfall lite, which doesn't have the wordclock option
and the third ADAT I/O. The Hammerfall allows SPDIF on a cinch connection,
as well as SPDIF through one of its optical I/O (only works with the first
I/O).
I really miss analog I/O and most of all AES/EBU connection on the
Hammerfall (although AES/EBU is possible as well, but via its cinch cable)

Hope this helps,
Joeri

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