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Pro audio for recording has been shifting to USB over the past few years. They were heavily on Firewire or PCI card formats before, but USB has finally gotten f
by beat 8y ago
Pro audio for recording has been shifting to USB over the past few years. They were heavily on Firewire or PCI card formats before, but USB has finally gotten fast enough to do the throughput, and of course it's much cheaper and more standard.
- plussed_reader 8y agoUSB has had the throughput to handle multichannel audio for decades; USB still has issues regarding device priority when it comes to the nature of its interaction with the OS.
- beat 8y agoAnd thus throughput is not enough. In pro audio, we can't afford dropouts or lost data, even when the CPU is under heavy load.