Re: [linux-audio-user] alsa rme96 jack - 186 msec latency?

From: studio-64 <fsmith@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 12:50:53 EEST

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 20:51 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 01:36 +0200, Michael Rudolf wrote:
>>
>>>I bought an RME Digi96/8 PST because it was said to have good Linux support
>>>and very low latency, therefore perfectly suitable for hd-recording and
>>>the like.
>>
>>where does it say this? the digi96/8 is an entirely different product
>>(different h/w design, different chipset, different interactions with
>>the host CPU) from the digi9652, HDSP and HDSP9652 systems. this latter
>>range is well supported and works exceedingly well on almost all
>>systems. the digi96/8 has support, but it does not work particularly
>>well, especially not for low latency work (this is not because of the
>>driver design (other than the overall way that ALSA works), but because
>>of the h/w design).
>
>
> He probably just got the impression that all non-firewire RME stuff was
> well supported under Linux. That's what I thought...
>

HI
I too thought this of RME, their website is a bit ambiguous to say the
least.

I can say the cheap(!?) Hammerfall lite I have works on all the Linux
system I have used, with very low latencies.

He should contact RME direct and let us know the outcome, they seem to
be a Linux friendly company.

Bob

> How exactly does the hardware design not play nice with ALSA? Does it
> need variable period sizes to do low latency? It seems like the ASIO
> drivers must be able to do < 3-5 ms on Windows or it would not be
> marketable...
>
> Lee
>
>

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