RE: mac titanium G4 looping?

[Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

I use a firewire MOTU 828 with my powerbook and haven't noticed any
excessive latency, using the MOTU ASIO drivers.

Best wishes,
Warren Sirota


> -----Original Message-----
> From: andy butler [mailto:akbutler@tiscali.co.uk] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:39 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: mac titanium G4 looping?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >> 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
>