| Why is latency...
...such a hard nut to crack?
With native CPU's these days smoking the processing power of older TDM cores, why can't they compete in the area of latency? I've heard stories of 8-core CPU users not being able to set their buffers lower than 128.
This is why I've kept my old MIX-era TDM system. I'm tracking and overdubbing into that, and then mixing on a secondary LE system at my project studio. I wish I could just skip the TDM system entirely, but I'm not confident that I'd get adequate performance during tracking out of my LE rig. (Plus, I don't care for the limitations associated with Low Latency Monitoring Mode in PTLE.) I also like to monitor post-DAW, so I need a system that can keep up (as opposed to pre-converter monitoring).
So why do native CPU's have such a hard time with latency, compared to older, "less-powerful" MIX cores? My guess is that it has something to do with the TDM bus, but that technology has been around for decades (even before Digidesign implemented it).
-Ben B
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