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Old 11th May 2007   #14
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Originally Posted by majortom View Post
There's really two issues though when you're talking about "speed", one is bandwidth, how much info can be transferred at once and the other is latency, or how fast the info gets there. Latency is probably a bigger concern with audio than bandwidth.
Very well put... Latency as in the delay when playing VST instruments etc. is not primarily related to bandwidth, be it Firewire or PCI(e).
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