Firewire is being abandoned because of thunderbolt, and there are adapters that
make firewire work with thunderbolt, because many manufacturers and studios
still use the technology. Anyone who builds DAWs knows the throughput for
firewire is usually better than USB2, with certain exceptions, and that because
the manufacturers went to great lengths to making a good USB driver and used a
good chipset. In these rare cases, USB2 works as well for those interfaces.
I've built countless daws, and many use firewire, and even some video editing
workstations I've built use firewire, no problems whatsoever. I personally use
a Saffire pro40, and haven't had issues with it and firewire in the last 5
years of using it. It beats a lot of USB2 interfaces in DAWBench. It's as
stable as my delta1010 which is a PCI interface. I can't say the same for my
experience with USB 2 devices, Notably Tascam interfaces, Behringers and even a
mixer from Allen and Heath.
I know of other customers who've had issues with USB2 interfaces when using a
high channel count; I've only heard of MOTU getting a big (8 channels +) unit
to work well with USB.
As long as you have the right firewire chipset for the dvice you are getting,
and have a good maker of the card (not a PCI to PCIE bridged card for example),
you will be fine.
HTH, D!J!X!
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Steve Wickett
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 6:28 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: External sound card
Hi Chris,
The Focusrite Saffire Pro14 is I believe the sound card that Phil Muir also
recommends, however The builder of my computer has concerns about the fire wire
interface.
I know so little about the building of computers, the thought that he has
concerns with FireWire option doesn't fill me with confidence especially when I
read that a lot of computer companies are abandoning FireWire.
The Roland Duo Tri May be a good option as I do like the quality build up
Roland's products.
👍🏻
On 22 Dec 2015, at 22:22, Chris Smart <csmart8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE!
Try the Roland Duo Tri or Quad-capture, maybe something from Focusrite's
Scarlet range. If your new machine has a firewire port, consider the
Focusrite Saffire Pro14.
At 05:06 PM 12/22/2015, you wrote:
Hi all,
I am currently having a music computer built, my old one is an XP computer
and always had latency issues. Will be using Windows 7 Professional, Sonar
8.5 and CT 8.8.
I was wondering what preferred sound card you guys use? I don't need
anything too complicated, two XLR ins and MIDI.
A sound card that doesn't keep dropping out and has little to no latency if
that's at all possible.
Thanks in advance.
Steve W
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