actually I was considering the RME HDSPe RayDAT  which is actually the
same  price as the lightpipe but I would have to use a desktop and I want
to use a fast laptop with a ssd drive  (thus the need for firewire)

On 27 March 2012 17:00, <sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu> wrote:

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> From: Michael McCrea <mccrea.mich...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sursound] 32 (ish) channel soundcard for wavedield
>        synthesis ?
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> In terms of stability of the cards, you really get what you pay for.  RME,
> for example, has been superb for years?though at a price.
> An economical solution, say the Presonus Firestudio Lightpipe, for example,
> has been spotty in connectivity and clocking and was soon sunsetted after
> it's release, and still left the cost of DA conversion down the chain..
>  We've used the MOTU 24 I/O system with great results thus far (2 units at
> 96k, 48 channels), and at a middle ground in terms of price.  As you begin
> to expand the system and bridge multiple devices, you'll want to consider a
> dedicated clock, such as Apogee's Big Ben.
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> Cheers,
> Mike
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> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Miguel Negrao <
> miguel.negrao-li...@friendlyvirus.org> wrote:
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> >
> > A 24/03/2012, ?s 05:58, Eric Benjamin escreveu:
> >
> > >> currently thinking of using PCI or PCI express cards
> > > Any time that there are multiple devices the chances of having them be
> > offset in
> > > time increases dramatically.  I've really had a lot of bad experiences,
> > both
> > > with multiple PCI audio devices and with multiple external ADAT
> devices.
> >  I'm
> > > thinking of one system I saw a few years ago that had three ADAT cards
> > in the
> > > computer to get 24 channels of output.  In that system I occasionally
> saw
> > > offsets of greater than a millisecond!  But more recently I've seen a
> > system
> > > with four MOTU 24I/O devices for 96 channels of output, and that system
> > had
> > > perfect synchronization between devices.
> >
> > If it?s the system that I?m thinking about, not  only that, but also
> > synchronization with another computer with another 4 MOTU sound cards,
> > making a total of 192 channels. :-)
> >
> > best,
> > Miguel Negr?o
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> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:53:31 +1100
> From: Ross Bencina <rossb-li...@audiomulch.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sursound] 32 (ish) channel soundcard for wavedield
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> On 27/03/2012 4:01 AM, Michael McCrea wrote:
> > In terms of stability of the cards, you really get what you pay for.
>  RME,
> > for example, has been superb for years?though at a price.
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> +1 for RME HDSPe MADI
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