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Originally Posted by soebx  I´ve been waiting for an AES/EBU PCIe solution from either Lynx or RME.(I´m on a Mac Pro now) cause it seems to be a commen opinion that the lacenty of any firewire solution is "bigger" than the AES/EBU solution. But it seems like some are making firewire solutions that minimize the latency. |
Little bit out of scope of your question, but from my experience.
Firewire is great, (with Apogee), but I found out that for more than 16 ch. ins/outs (and I need in average around 30 ch at 96khz sample rate) Firewire 400 is already on its limits (probably not just bandwidth issue). I use Firewire 800 card via PCIe, but neither Apogee or other gears doesn't support 800 MB transfer.
I found way out only with RME. I used RME before and was absolutely satisfied with stability and reliability of their PCI cards.
Solution is ADI-642 MADI PCI (soon PCIe) card with ADI 6432 MADI to AES/EBU converter.
Speed and lack of latency with this solution are second to none.
If you need 64 ch. you can drop sample rate to 48 khz (what is basically enough for most projects) and you have bi-directional 64 ch of AES/EBU.
I have this rig on testing now and I think I will replace existing Firwire setups due to some inconsistencies and latency/bugs problems with several Firewire devices connected to DAW simultaneously.
At first sight price for this system seems huge, but when you see real functionality and professional level/consistency of such DAW solution (in line with expandibility) than price is fully justified.