RE: Small, Hand-Sized Battery Powered Mixers

["Mark Sottilaro" <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

We have this conversation every now and then.  Andy sites this problem and
then I offer my personal experience showing no such latency problem at all.
It's one of our loops.

-----Original Message-----
From: Krispen Hartung [mailto:khartung@cableone.net] 
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:11 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Small, Hand-Sized Battery Powered Mixers

Interesting, I have not heard of this issue. I know that Jeff Kaiser is 
using an older mac with a firewire interface (Fireface 400), and he's 
somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to his sound, with the trumpet 
being his main audio input and all. He's never commented on any latency 
problems. Of course, he's using max, so that could be a factor, but I'm 
not 
sure.

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 
>
> Last time I heard, there was a big problem with FireWire interfaces and 
> Core Audio
> having a lot of latency.
> Hope that's fixed now.
> As I understand it, there are difficulties with syncing audio on 
>Firewire,

> as it has to be the master. Core Audio simply gets round this by using 
> sample rate conversion. The result is that it works without glitching, 
>but

> SRC
> brings it's own problems.
> (On pc, the Firewire audio is treated as master, but then you can't have 
> multiple audio interfaces)
>
> I guess I've been lucky, my M-Audio interface has run perfectly with 3 
> different pc motherboards,
> and an 8-ch firewire interface worked fine straight away.
>
> andy butler
>