[visionegg] Re: Hardware for Vision Egg

A quick web search turns up this USB audio device which advertises its low latency: http://www.waveidea.com/en/products/uasc1/ It looks very interesting for low-latency, cross-platform in/out. From the FAQ page (included below), it looks like it routinely gets 4 msec or less latencies on Mac OS X. There may be plenty of these types of devices around -- it seems that the audio community is very interested in low-latency IO to do realtime sound effects with powerful CPUs.

I create music with my computer, using soft synth such as Reason, Reaktor, Rebirth, Fruity loops, ... Is UASC-1 compatible with these soft ? Is UASC-1 able to fully exploit these enhanced soft ?
Yes, UASC-1 is fully compatible with Mac & PC software that play and record audio. In addition, an enhanced ASIO driver is delivered with UASC-1, in order to reduce audio latency down to few milliseconds. UASC-1 is compatible with ASIO-2, MME and directX. Using the ASIO driver allows to transform your computer into a low cost studio

I have a Mac OS-X, do I need an ASIO driver to reach low latency ?
No, Mac OS-X doens't require an additional ASIO driver to reach very low audio latencies, we performed complete tests using this OS, and measured latencies lower than 4 ms with a standard Mac laptop

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