The brochure sure looks good for Symphony with the promise of TDM equalling latency at less money butas I have discovered with my great-sounding but still flakey Ensemble, the dream doesnt neccesarily equal the reality. Any one out there using the system? Is the latency as low as they say? what buffer setting gets you solid reliability and is it affected when you start using lots of virtual instruments? Is there a way of getting more than 8 channels of litepipe to connect to my TDM system without buying more than 1 Rosetta 800? Thanks in advance James Hall musician/composer www.soundtraxnz.com

"James Hall" <jim@soundtrax.co.nz> wrote: > Is the latency as low as they say? The difference between Firewire and Symphony's PCIx/PCIe/Express Card connection is that with very low buffer settings, Firewire taxes the computer a lot. Not nearly as much with the Symphony system. So it's not as if Symphony magically has less latency... You can indeed set a Firewire interface to low latency but it becomes very dodgy. "James Hall" <jim@soundtrax.co.nz> wrote: > Is there a way of getting more than 8 channels > of litepipe to connect to my TDM system without buying > more than 1 Rosetta 800? I guess I'm not completely understanding the question, since a Rosetta 800 is an 8channel A/D/A. m-Audio's LightBridge has 4 x LightPipe i/o for 32 channels, and supports smux (halving the number of channels to give 96KHz operation). check out: <http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/ProFireLightbridge-main.html>; f-erenc szabo, smarty pants Z+E+R+O+B+E+A+T "NOW POWERED BY THE MIRACLE OF THE TRANSISTOR!" <http://home.goodmedia.com/~zerobeat>