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<blockquote data-quote="Karl Lies" data-source="post: 105901" data-attributes="member: 5327">Re: Routing QuestionA few things to consider.....as I understand it, Firewire tends to&nbsp; be faster than USB (USB 2.0 at at least) because of the way Firewire&nbsp; controls/manages data transfer. Even with this however, in my&nbsp; experience, latencies between digital consoles and PC&#039;s (and all I can&nbsp; reference here are what I use....the x32 and the Presonus SL24.4.2) will&nbsp; be around the 5ms range for inbound signals and slightly&nbsp; higher....7-9ms for outbound signals (from the PC to the console).This&nbsp; is what I see Cubase reporting on my system (I&#039;m running a pretty high&nbsp; end ADK laptop built specifically for Audio...i7, 8 gig ram, clean OS&nbsp; installation tuned for audio use, all audio recorded to an external,&nbsp; SATA attached, solid state drive). This is running the x32 FW driver&nbsp; with buffer&#039;s set to lowest possible setting.Personally I would&nbsp; rate a round trip latency of 11-12 ms about the max that could be&nbsp; usable. Some folks might be more flexible but to my ears anything much&nbsp; beyond this just starts to sound confusing (particularly if you&#039;re&nbsp; trying to overdub a vocal track...phasing, comb filtering etc...).What&nbsp; you may find will work even better than Firewire will be to look for&nbsp; the release of a direct to hard drive recording card. Since the x32&nbsp; specs talk about max latencies (input to any output) of &lt;1ms, using a&nbsp; direct to HD multitrack recorder card would allow you to use the&nbsp; x32/external HD as your recording system (dont even hook up the&nbsp; PC/laptop). Use the consoles built in FX for headphone monitoring during&nbsp; recording/overdub&#039;s. Get your tracks laid down this way then take the&nbsp; external HD, hook it up to your PC/laptop and do final editing/mixing&nbsp; etc.... using your DAW. This could give you the best of all worlds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Karl Lies, post: 105901, member: 5327"] Re: Routing Question A few things to consider.....as I understand it, Firewire tends to be faster than USB (USB 2.0 at at least) because of the way Firewire controls/manages data transfer. Even with this however, in my experience, latencies between digital consoles and PC's (and all I can reference here are what I use....the x32 and the Presonus SL24.4.2) will be around the 5ms range for inbound signals and slightly higher....7-9ms for outbound signals (from the PC to the console). This is what I see Cubase reporting on my system (I'm running a pretty high end ADK laptop built specifically for Audio...i7, 8 gig ram, clean OS installation tuned for audio use, all audio recorded to an external, SATA attached, solid state drive). This is running the x32 FW driver with buffer's set to lowest possible setting. Personally I would rate a round trip latency of 11-12 ms about the max that could be usable. Some folks might be more flexible but to my ears anything much beyond this just starts to sound confusing (particularly if you're trying to overdub a vocal track...phasing, comb filtering etc...). What you may find will work even better than Firewire will be to look for the release of a direct to hard drive recording card. Since the x32 specs talk about max latencies (input to any output) of <1ms, using a direct to HD multitrack recorder card would allow you to use the x32/external HD as your recording system (dont even hook up the PC/laptop). Use the consoles built in FX for headphone monitoring during recording/overdub's. Get your tracks laid down this way then take the external HD, hook it up to your PC/laptop and do final editing/mixing etc.... using your DAW. This could give you the best of all worlds. [/QUOTE]

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