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<blockquote data-quote="Jere Malila" data-source="post: 76028" data-attributes="member: 3077"><p>Re: X32 Discussion</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">From RME UFX Manual:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">"Core Audio's Safety Offset </span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'ArialMT'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'ArialMT'">Under OS X, every audio interface has to use a so called </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><em>Safety Offset </em></span><span style="font-family: 'ArialMT'">on record and playback, otherwise Core Audio won't operate click-free. The Fireface uses a Safety Offset of 16 samples with USB and 32 samples with FireWire. This offset is signalled to the system, and the software can calculate and display the total latency of buffer size plus AD/DA offset plus 2 x Safety Offset plus Safety Buffer for the current sample rate. "</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'ArialMT'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'ArialMT'"><span style="font-size: 10px">So if you go to lowest latency: <span style="font-size: 10px">go for USB. This of course won't tell <span style="font-size: 10px">nothing about reliablity with big amount of audio data<span style="font-size: 10px">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jere Malila, post: 76028, member: 3077"] Re: X32 Discussion [SIZE=2][FONT=Arial]From RME UFX Manual: "Core Audio's Safety Offset [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=2][FONT=ArialMT] Under OS X, every audio interface has to use a so called [/FONT][FONT=Arial][I]Safety Offset [/I][/FONT][FONT=ArialMT]on record and playback, otherwise Core Audio won't operate click-free. The Fireface uses a Safety Offset of 16 samples with USB and 32 samples with FireWire. This offset is signalled to the system, and the software can calculate and display the total latency of buffer size plus AD/DA offset plus 2 x Safety Offset plus Safety Buffer for the current sample rate. " [SIZE=2]So if you go to lowest latency: [SIZE=2]go for USB. This of course won't tell [SIZE=2]nothing about reliablity with big amount of audio data[SIZE=2].[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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