agreed. Would still personally go Firewire over USB2 if I had the option.
The problem is trying to figure out which ones ship with Texis Instruments
chipsets. Used an old Belkan one here for years with countless Saffire
devices Pro 24, 40 and Liquid 56's with 0 issues. Unfortunatly can't locate
those as easily now. I know that Startech make a lot of firewire cards but
have no idea if those cards are TI or not. I guess the safe bet may be to
go with a firewire card that is approved for say an MBox 3 as Avid aren't
going to put their name behind something like that unless it works well in
Windows. BTW, wonder if the Asus Z97 K 1150 Motherboard plays nice with PCI
firewire devices and Windows 7 Professional 64 bit?
Regards, Phil Muir
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of D!J!X!
Sent: 23 December 2015 19:18
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: External sound card
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:Scarlet range. If your new machine has a firewire port, consider the
Try the Roland Duo Tri or Quad-capture, maybe something from Focusrite's
computer and always had latency issues. Will be using Windows 7
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
anything too complicated, two XLR ins and MIDI.
I was wondering what preferred sound card you guys use? I don't need
if that's at all possible.A sound card that doesn't keep dropping out and has little to no latency
<http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=635671&u=1109457&m=54749&urllink=&afftracThanks in advance.
Steve W
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