Duende: PCIe or Firewire

[Blake Minaker]

Originally Posted by jvt

Folks,

I believe I'd like to add a Duende to my set-up. Currently, I have a single UAD-1 PCI card as well as a Powercore Firewire running alongside a Digi002 interface (also firewire but on a separate port). My question is, which version of the Duende seems to be the most stable with this kind of set-up on Windows XP? The UAD has always been rock solid so I'm not really concerned there (I just mentioned it for the bigger picture). My concern is that, because of my Powercore's inherent instability (i.e, blue screens unless I'm really careful), what's the likelihood that chaining another firewire DSP device would make things worse? I'd prefer the firewire Duende primarily for convenience but I don't know how the Powercore is likely to behave. And it's only because of the VSS3, NonLin and CL-1B that I'm somewhat reluctant to part with it (thank goodness Sonnox went native!). Note, I haven't yet installed the version 3.0.2 Powercore drivers, so maybe stability will be improved (though my confidence is not very high)

What are your experiences?

Theoretical Maximum speed for a PCIe 16 card versus Firewire 400:

Firewire 400: 400Mbit/sec
PCIe x16: 4gigs/sec

Get the PCIe

[George Necola]

PCIe, less PITAdfegad

[JPeters86]

Originally Posted by Blake Minaker

Get the PCIe

[jvt]

Thanks! Sound like PCIe wins! Bonus is that PCIe is $270 cheaper!