thanks for the helpful advice, all!
i had the impression (similarly obsolete, it would seem) that firewire offered superior performance to usb and was the industry-preferred solution...
for instance:
also, i use a dedicated and stripped-down-to-essentials micro-atx box to run pianoteq which, as with most mobos, has no onboard firewire port, but the addition of one with a pcie card is a trivial matter and one which i would have thought (again, apparently erroneously) should offer better bandwidth to that of usb...? and, while the performance/stability gains (as the quoted section goes on to mention) seem to be mostly apparent only when talking about large numbers of simulatneous i/o, i'd like to think that even a modicum of improvement over usb would be worth it (and a 4x4 firewire setup is less expensive than going with RME Babyface Pro! )...
however, as the consensus here seems to be that the RME is the superior option available, i'll bow to collective experiental wisdom and make it a part of the plan!
cheers,
dj
Last edited by _DJ_ (17-03-2018 23:00)
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