* Max <[email protected]> [2012-11-19 09:05]:
> I just got a RME Fireface UCX and will test it on linux soon. it has a USB 
> class compliant mode, so it should run. The documentation says that the 
> latency in the class compliant mode is not as good as with the proprietary 
> driver. It would be interesting to have numbers here how much better exactly 
> the rme driver is over the class compliant.
> I guess i'd simply connect output to input and measure the delay? Someone 
> must have done this before, Is there a standard method? A patch?
Use jdelay by Fons Adriaensen. 
http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/

There is also a patch:
/usr/local/lib/pd/doc/7.stuff/tools/latency.pd

best, P

> 
> I must say that I am a bit disappointed about the drivers for os x. I 
> installed the firewire and USB drivers and updated the firmware, with the 
> result that the settings app now crashes and the firmware update also quits 
> unsuccessfully now. in the regular mode now all the led on the device are on 
> and the sound is chpped up. USB class compliant mode however still works. i 
> mailed the support. Disappointing for a device i just spend >1000 eur on. 
> also the rme fireface driver is the only process which isn't 64bit that is 
> loaded by the os.
> 
> Am 18.10.2012 um 14:24 schrieb Peter Venus <[email protected]>:
> 
> > a quick look on ffado.org brought up, that RMEs fireface 400 and 800
> > have now the "full support" status.
> > i haven“t tested this yet, but if this works, this would be a perfect 
> > solution i think.
> > anyone checked this yet?
> > cheers, peter
> > 
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2012 um 23:33 Uhr
> > Von: "Ed Kelly" <[email protected]>
> > An: "Rob Bothof" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > Betreff: Re: [PD] firewire is dead?
> > Jack + fa101?
> > I have never, ever got this to give me anything other than glitchy, 
> > unusable audio!
> > 
> > > 
> > >actually it was still called smartcard..
> > >either how i use it still with edirol fa101
> > >never failed me, rocksolid performance with jack
> > >
> > >On 10/16/2012 6:11 PM, yvan volochine wrote:
> > >> On 10/16/2012 02:45 PM, patrick wrote:
> > >>> good, i was a little bit worried about using a pci-e firewire adapter
> > >>> for audio in linux / jack.
> > >>> 
> > >>> about latency, yesterday i used jdelay to measure the round-trip of my
> > >>> latency, at 44100 with 128, 3 = 17 ms (jack reports 8 ms). at 96000 i
> > >>> get 7 ms, BUT my cpu seems to be working hard and i get glitches. so the
> > >>> question is:
> > >>> 
> > >>> with a faster cpu, can i lower the latency?
> > >> 
> > >> yes =)
> > >> 
> > >> i.e. I have to use huge buffer sizes (so more latency) because of my old 
> > >> Intel Core Duo 1.6Ghz (great thinkpad x60 with expresscard slot for my 
> > >> FW card though)...
> > >> 
> > >
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