[ddots-l] Re: appropriate sound interface
- From: D!J!X! <megamansuperior@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 01:06:03 -0400
In general we recommend Texas Instruments for firewire chipsets on daws. In
the case of the saffire line, focusrite recommends texas instruments or Via.
There are 2 specific chipsets they recommend for texas instruments (doesn't
mean others won't work), and I think 1 from Via. There's a pdf on their site
with these details, just search on www.focusrite.com for firewire
compatibility. This is always a hit or miss type of thing, some people have
had great luck with texas instruments chipsets, either built in to the
motherboard or as an add-on card, and yet others have had to switch to a via
card to get good results.
One thing I might add, depending on how much low latency you are looking to
get, saffires (like most firewire devices) use the dice II chipset system,
which does not work extremely well under heavy load and low latency (64/128
buffers etc). Your milage may vary (also depends on your system and
configuration). The saffire pro40 is my first firewire/dice II device, so
I'm testing to see what it's like. I have a feeling though that nothing will
be better than a PCI/PCIE interface, and RME is king of the hil, (and the
valley for that matter), when it comes to that...
This is not to steer you away from these fine units which are killer deals
considering the preAmps and the price/features, but just want to give you
the full report...
HTH, D!J!X!
-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Chris Smart
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 11:18 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: appropriate sound interface
Hi There. I'm not sure if Dancing Dots sell the Saffire Firewire interfaces.
Anyway, they use a firewire port, not USB. It's a different connector to
USB.
If your computer does not have a Firewire port, you can buy a card with a
couple firewire ports on it pretty cheaply. Most seem to recommend cards
with a Texas Instrument (TI) chip on it. Isn't that right guys? I haven't
had to worry about firewire ports in a few years, so I'm not sure if that is
still the best advice about which card to get.
Chris
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