Under V 5.0 is the ASIO set for the RME hammerfall likely to give me better performance than the ASIO set for my 2408. I am looking to achieve more plugin peformance during playback and to avoid the dreaded disk too slow problems. My current system is P3 1gig. 512mb SDRAM, Matrox 400, 2 x ATA 100 HD's, TC Powercore, 2408 and AMT8. My line of thought is that even if I upgrade my system if the 2408 driver set is poor it is still going to be poor. It would be cheaper to buy a hammerfall than upgrade the system.

>Under V 5.0 is the ASIO set for the RME hammerfall likely to give me >better performance than the ASIO set for my 2408. I am looking to >achieve more plugin peformance during playback and to avoid the >dreaded disk too slow problems. My current system is P3 1gig. 512mb >SDRAM, Matrox 400, 2 x ATA 100 HD's, TC Powercore, 2408 and AMT8. My >line of thought is that even if I upgrade my system if the 2408 >driver set is poor it is still going to be poor. It would be cheaper >to buy a hammerfall than upgrade the system. It seems I get about 30% more performance than with the 2408

> >Under V 5.0 is the ASIO set for the RME hammerfall likely to give > >better performance than the ASIO set for my 2408. I am looking to > >achieve more plugin peformance during playback and to avoid the > >dreaded disk too slow problems. My current system is P3 1gig. 512mb > >SDRAM, Matrox 400, 2 x ATA 100 HD's, TC Powercore, 2408 and AMT8. > >My line of thought is that even if I upgrade my system if the 2408 > >driver set is poor it is still going to be poor. It would be > >cheaper to buy a hammerfall than upgrade the system. Vincent Kenis <vincent.k@c...> wrote: > It seems I get about 30% more performance than with the 2408 Seems the route to go then. Next question is will they reside happily in the same machine?

>Vincent Kenis <vincent.k@c...> wrote: >> It seems I get about 30% more performance than with the 2408 > >Seems the route to go then. Next question is will they reside happily >in the same machine? no, you can't use 2 different ASIO drivers at the same time

How many stereo platinum reverbs can you use at one time at the moment. That would give some idea of how your system performs. You can download the test from this site: www.digitalnaturalsound.com/logic_dsp/index.shtml Henrik hkc@...

Henrik "HKC" <hkc@e...> wrote: > How many stereo platinum reverbs can you use at one time at the > moment. That would give some idea of how your system performs. > You can download the test from this site: > www.digitalnaturalsound.com/logic_dsp/index.shtml Coincidently I was just looking at that table. It would seem that the Hammerfall performs better on the PC platform than the 2408. I think it will be my next step. I have been advised by my brother to hang fire on PC upgrading as a new development is on the cards in the PC world in around a couple of months. The performance of the P4 1.7 on the ASUS P4T/RDRAM with the hammerfall is very impressive though.

Hi, It is a well known fact that MOTU's hardware are optimised for MOTU software (DP3.0). Therefore their ASIO driver isn't well written. I use Mac and when I compare the performances of the built in Sound Card (Mac A/V) with the PCI 324 ASIO Driver it is very obvious: You can play much more plug-ins and tracks using the Mac AV Driver than using PCI-324 ASIO. RME cards are known to have ASIO drivers "built in". I was talking to a Nuendo specialist at Steinberg's headquarters in Germany, and this guy told me that they chose to market RME cards under their own brand names because RME cards where the most powerful cards on the market when using ASIO drivers --------------- Michel Gallone Sowatt Music rue de la Source 9 CH - 1020 Renens SWITZERLAND mailto:michel@... --------------- G4 400 Mhz MOTU 24i 2408 Logic P 5.0 2x amt 8 ATTO SCSI card Seagate 10K RPM SCSI UW HD ------------------