RME PCIe Soundcard > Creamware A16U ?

sonolive · Post by **sonolive** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:56 pm

yes jimmy,

this one with its 24 ADAT busses seems to be good, price is ok too ...

depends on how many busses you need between the two DAW ! but 24 is good !!!

cheers
olive

sonolive · Post by **sonolive** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:11 pm

well, no problem that a french consultant doesn't suggest a german product ...

??????

as far as i know, CW / SC is german , isn't it ?

I use, sell, suggest pro DAW with exclusively CW boards on them ... for about 10 years !!! see DIGITALAUDIOTOOL.COM ...

sorry i don't understand your humour
...
cheers
olive

Post by **hubird** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:24 pm

it's humor (good or bad), give it a wink

sonolive · Post by **sonolive** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:29 pm

give it a wink

i will ...

cheers
olive

Post by **hubird** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:32 pm

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:44 pm

I am winking also my friends.

This will be an awesome DAW. Made by PlanetZ, and built by GaryB...................
And played by Jimmy V.

The Audio Trinity Of Sorts.

ScofieldKid · Post by **ScofieldKid** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:35 am

It looks like you can cable this a bit differently if you want also, using the Digiface. That's a 3X ADAT I/O 1/2 rack chassis. Then you could go to PCI or ExpressCard with a single firewire cable, (not firewire). Haven't seen if the PCIE version of the card is there yet.

http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_digiface.php

http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hds ... erface.php

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:05 am

sonolive wrote:...I use, sell, suggest pro DAW with exclusively CW boards on them ... for about 10 years !!! see DIGITALAUDIOTOOL.COM ...
sorry i don't understand your humour ...

sorry Olive, that was indeed a joke - I thought it would be clear by mentioning my passion for french cheese - to relativate my 'national' choice of gear

Looks like I'm not as humorous as Goethe when he joked about the historic relations between the two countries a few centuries ago ...

never mind

cheers, Tom

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:12 am

Nice option Scofield, thanks.
Z-Link RME style.

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:19 am

what about
http://www.appenzeller.ch/
my friends?

Post by **garyb** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:20 pm

cheese!

husker · Post by **husker** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:46 pm

I was looking at the m-audio FireBridge myself to link my laptop with scope. It 'could' be really good - but anything FireWire tends to be hit or miss. Some have no problems, some have many problems - most are somewhere in between. Try and buy one where you can return within 30 days if it doesn't fly. Would be really interested to hear from anyone who has actually tried one.

Also be prepared for highish latency (+10ms), as this is as good has you could expect. And RME PCIe solution would have much lower latency.

cheers.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:22 pm

I am going with the RME PCI, and the DigiFace breakout box w/ dual MIDI.

2250 USD for these components:

RME PCI w/ DigiFace
iStarUSA 4U ATX
Kingwin 520w Modular PSU
4GB's OCZ Flex XLC DDR2 @ CL3
WD Caviar RE 250GB x 2
Hitachi 7K1000GB
Plextor DVD / CD 18x
Intel DP35DP
Intel E6850
M$ Vista 64bit

I am staying w/ the P35 / E6850. I believe it will be the power required to get all of the instances of VSTi's, and Gigapulse for live work. Vista and Gigastudio 4 should be happy with the ability to use 4GB's of RAM for content loads.

Routing all of these instruments into Scope is where it's at for me.

This board could also house the Scope DSP cards if Soniccore updates their drivers next year.

That would be a dream DAW. Until then I will go back to using 2 DAW's again.

I have made tons of cash w/ Scope and will continue to do so.

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:41 pm

a sc driver update would be great.

I hate vista,
but it gives a good feeling, if they force us to migrate, we can strike back.

Janni · Post by **Janni** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:54 am

Why digiface?

Wouldn't it be much clearer and cheaper to use ADAT?

What about this one:

http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_9652.php

Just wondering...
Jan

valis · Post by **valis** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:16 am

Actually looked at from a different perspective the Digiface could be a good investment. When Jimmy moves the DIgiface to a system without PCI (PCIe only) he'll only need to purchase the HDSP PCIe card which will cost a lot less than one of the other integrated PCI cards retooled to support PCIe.

Janni · Post by **Janni** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:44 am

I see...

Thanks,
Jan

bool · Post by **bool** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:37 pm

http://www.supermicro.com/products/moth ... /C2SBE.cfm

... just in case. vrm looks much better than intel's.

valis · Post by **valis** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:16 pm

Nice note on the SM board. Every one of my main workstations since 1998 has been based around a SuperMicro board (Xeons though).

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:32 pm

They are super stable.

I still have 3 x Scope DP's and Gigastudio 2.54 running on a PIV 3.2 Northwood, and a P4SCT+II for years w/o a single hiccup !!