Hi, > > I agree! Just got the Hammerfall and it's rock solid with Logic! Although EASI > > drivers would be nice.... ;-) > Can you in due time give some latency figures , and maximum track record > / playback figures Joeri ? Well, I just fooled around with lots of audio and enjoyed the stable performance of Logic. I've programmed the faders and knobs of my digital mixing desk so I now have _real_ faders to control the audio features in Logic (Ramsa DA7 desk for those who are interested). Anyway, you wanted a track count. Well, I just tried to make some audio tracks that were playing the same audiofile. I first wanted to check the load of the CPU etc and not the harddisk. So, I made tracks... and tracks... and tracks... until I had used all 64 audio STEREO tracks... all playing the same file. No phasing, just the same sound... much louder of course (had to put the master at -50 dB)... and the system performance meter showed this: Audio: 20%, harddisk 1%... The harddisk was of course just 1% since I simply copied the same file to all tracks... but the audio performance surprised me: 20% with 64 stereo tracks... not bad... especially since the system still felt as fast and fresh as it was playing 1 audiotrack. Is this test correct? I mean: 20% is wonderful, but is it because I was only using 1 stereo audiofile for all the 64 stereotracks? Could anyone with a different system (Mac or PC or whatever...) confirm/compare ? Before going on with the tests, let me give the facts and specs in a short list: Computer: PC, Win98 SE, Celeron 500 Mhz, 128 Ram, Western Digital 13.8 Gb harddisk (ATA66/2048cache/7200tour), Abit BP6 motherboard, ATI XPert@work PCI 8Mb videocard, Unitor8 and dongle on COM1, RME Hammerfall with latest ASIO driver (driver 2.2 just posted yesterday). * First test: 64x 16-bit 44 kHz stereo audio tracks playing the same file: harddisk load: 1%, audio/CPU load: 20% * Second test: adding FAT EQ's as insert on each of the 64 tracks: harddisk load: 1%, audio/CPU load: 50% * Third test... let's add some compressors: the same 64 stereotracks + 64 FAT EQ's + 26 compressors -> this is the maximum: CPU load 93%... if I add one more compressor, the system gives CPU overload when switching between screensets. Once I got over 80% CPU load, the system started feeling slow... So, this was the promised CPU test... A test with separate audiofiles will follow when I find some more time. I guess the test with different audiofiles will give me less performance since it's an ATA66 disk and not a SCSI disk (IDE needs some CPU). I noticed that performance was best when I left the ASIO settings at the factory standard: 2048/46ms. With a buffer of 23ms, the audio meters didn't follow the audio correctly etc... very weird stuff. EASI drivers would be very welcome to eliminate things like this. You asked about latency? Ehm, well... maybe it's just me, but I don't "feel" any latency at all when using the audio stuff. I guess I'll notice it when recording... although this Zero-latency-monitoring trick of RME will fix the problem there. I hope this was informative for some of you... Ciao, Joeri -- Joeri Vankeirsbilck joeri@...