I know that certain PCI cards give you latencies as low as 1 - 2 ms, I don't think firewire interfaces can touch those figures yet. Latency also has alot to do with how good the drivers are you are using.Īs an example, there are third party drivers for certain digidesign stuff (usb-mbox), which significantly lowers the latency, compared to the stock drivers. There's no way anybody can "cheat" their way out of that, by zero-latency monitoring. Latency of the audio interface becomes an issue, if you use softsynths. Almost every audio engineer agrees that for audio recording, a Firewire audio interface is better than an USB audio interface. But when it comes to Audio Interfaces, we talk about the latency. Zero-latency is Zero-latency, regardless if you're using firewire or usb. Firewire features a sustained transfer rate of 400 mbps (FW800 is 800 mbs) and it’s always the same. If somebody is only going to record 2 channels at once, I don't think it would make much of a difference if you use usb or firewire, since both camps will have to resort to the zero-latency trick. Recording 8 simultaneous channels at once will obviously be better with a firewire interface, since the throughput is larger. So, if you're monitoring via zero-latency to begin with, it doesnt really matter if you have a usb or firewire interface, in my opinion. Everybody knows that firewire is faster than usb, but it apparantly isn't that fast yet, since most people seem to use their interfaces with zero-latency monitoring.
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