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> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 14:46, Florian Schmidt wrote:

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>> On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:32:10 +0200

>> > And, what are the minimum period sizes for both cards?

>> > 64 for the RME afaik, does the Delta manage 32?

Joachim Schiele  writes:

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>> my delta 66 handles 32 frames just fine :) I can even go down to 8 [just

>> running jack though. haven't used it for anything serious, as the idle

>> cycle load is already at 20% with this on my 1.2 ghz athlon :). no xruns

>> though]

>>

>> As the delta 1010 is basically the same chip afaik, it should give

>> identical results..

It does.  
However, I find that latency below 64 frames is nice for testing

purposes but makes no noticeable difference when making music.
> So one question still remains: what advantage(s) would a RME card have

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> compared to M-Audio?

You get more channels for more money.  I believe they are both good

products and well-supported under Linux.

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  joq