Re: mac titanium G4 looping?

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

>> Os wrote:
>>> I used a G4 667MHz Powerbook for years. Just max it out with RAM (at
>>> least 1GB) and get a decent (probably firewire) audio interface. (I
>>> have a Metric Halo Mobile I/O 2882 which is superb.)
> 
> On 27 feb 2007, at 14.54, andy butler wrote:
>> I thought there were issues with high latency for any hardware relying 
>> on the Core Audio firewire drivers. At least, this was the case a 
>> month or 2 ago, maybe it's fixed now.
>> Of course, if latency isn't an issue.
> 

Per Boysen wrote:
> Maybe you are referring to the plug-in "safety" buffer? It's a bit big 
> in OS X compared to the buffer of some Windows VST plug-ins.
> 

Sound on Sound Dec 2006, in a review of the Focusrite Saffire Pro says 
that latency was "noticeably high, even with small buffer sizes", due to 
"Apple's own Firewire driver". They were hoping that a fix from Apple 
would be forthcoming, and made it clear that it wasn't a shortcoming 
specific to that unit.

andybutler