[PlanetCCRMA] external soundcard future

[Steve Harris]

USB is fine as long as you don’t have to use 44.1 or 88.2 - USB soundcard frames are 1ms long, so if there’s a non-integer number of samples per ms you get variable sized frames, which is… yuk!

> On 6 Mar 2015, at 08:24, Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarenskeen at zonnet.nl> wrote:
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> On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Be wrote:
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>> USB 2.0 is capable of handling 24-bit samples at 96 kHz (and even a 192
>> kHz sample rate, but there is no good reason for such a high sample
>> rate: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ). So, as I
>> understand it, there is no good reason for a sound card to require USB
>> 3.0. Get a USB 2.0 sound card and it will work with any computer you get
>> for years to come.
>> 
>> See also:
>> http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showflat.php?Number=1086636
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> I found this:
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> 	http://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/madiface_xt.php
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> but as Be states a good quality USB 2.0 audiointerface should normally be 
> sufficient. But I'm not an expert in this subject.
> 
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> MT
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