Yeah, same reason I baught one in 2004.
What I did was simple; there is a 5 slot pci model P35-S3G gigabyte;
I believe it has multiple controllers for the slots..
There is little reason to do pci-e except that 99% of the mb's are that way.
This is stated I think on the Lynx and RME pages...
Obviously with Lynx there isn't a performance improvement;
and I think digi says the same thing.
My preference was to use solid verified cards and except of the
marketing built on software limitations of the older digicards;
I have found perfection.
Again, I never had a performance problem with the RME either..
You know; if you're going to go over 16 per card ; or 24 on the 9652
you are right, the only other option is MADI; which too is rock solid.
The only other card I know of that did direct type monitoring support
accross cards was the digi.
The newer SSL cards that were baught by SSL may also do it;
but I can't remember what I found there..
The apogee ones may or may not either..
But again; what's the point; if I'm ASIO only.. yeah, the digi only does 16.
But PT does all the channels...
If I want that many on a ASIO daw, then MADI does it verifiablely well.
Given the rules, I still have 32 in/out for my console and 24(up to 32) for inserts.
It runs without crashing; I never have to reboot. For the matter
I felt it was so solid I OC'd it to 3gz.. quad x 3 ghz.
I track in PT; and primarily also because nuendo and cubase have tracking issues
feature wise; no working equivalent to play lists.
I then have a choice of mixing in cubase/nuendo or not; by using the first
16 interfaces which are the insert effects and then I just burn
with wavelab..
If I really felt like I needed delay compensation and rtas on the buss's I could upgrde.
Manual compensation is always perfect; and adding RTAS to the aux's
only increases the delay undesirably.
To do effect based, with external FX, there is no other DAW I know of that
does it properly. I can run a 32+ track session template with the compensation
and insert effect pre-made and use it to track, reliably without reboot.
I finally even conceeded to it being easier then my console for cue's; albiet
There is still a 81 sample delay.. But There is nobody else that has a rock solid
system with less delay including inserts/fx.
I always have the console available for a analog queue for the vocaling
with a analog fx if the sample delay is undesirable.
But any with a small FX on the vocal; is going to have that kind of sample
delay anyway..
Some of that is a little off topic; but I had been searching for those abilities
all in one spot for a long time; and I finally had to seccum to PT.
I *PRAY* one say steinberg will fix their grouping; tighted up the
feature set, not putting precedence to post and I will be done
with my search.
But they are just as bad as Lynx; especially with the original release
of CB4. It was the buggiest thing on the CD.
I mean; there was a major update out day 1.
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Originally Posted by Jason West  No UAD cards here but I have had problems with Lynx cards.
I bought Lynx AES16-SRC in August 2004. In 2004, there were no other cards on the market that had the digital io that it had so i seemed like a no-brainer decision.
I tried it in both Intel P4 and Core2 Duo motherboards. I ran it on dedicated fresh/virgin Windows XP computers in both cases. Updated the latest flash firmware. Updated the latest drivers. But I always had problems and it was not rock-solid.
One simple example of where Lynx drivers crashed was something as simple as playing foobar2000 with ASIO drivers. It would crash every 10 songs or so. However, using RME DIGI9652 or Fireface 400/800 would never crash. Never.
I realize that other big name artists are using the Lynx cards without problems. Perhaps they are stressing it in different ways. (Although my foobar2000 playback test seems like a very lightweight test.) Perhaps they have newer cards with a revised hardware -- a revised hardware that's not reflected in just flashing the firmware. Perhaps they don't even know that they have a problem. Who knows?
This is a Lynx thread so I don't want to give impression that RME is infallible and to bash Lynx. RME has some new PCIe cards in the works and they could release some clunkers of their own. I think the Lynx Aurora converters are good, but their AES16 cards (PCI or PCIe) seems to be big question marks. To be fair, Lynx could release some new flash update or software driver that will fix all the reported problems.
I think we all want the AES16e to work because there's not much of a choice in the marketplace. The equivalent competitor RME AES-32 was announced almost a year ago and it's still not released yet. If you want the 16-ch digital io on PCIe card, Lynx is the only product in this price range that's available right now. |