We need a SIMPLE and reliable low-latency card. We don't need a lot of inputs and outputs. We don't need built-in mic inputs or guitar inputs because we already own all that kind of hardware. Every owner of old trustworthy Audiophile 2496 or who upgrades his old computer will buy your card if it will be as simple and straightforward as his old card. You could make good money if you would fill this empty niche on the audio market. More than that, a lot of conventional audiophiles need such simple cards: they don't like that external box that requires a special place to put it on. That's all! A lot of home musicians experience the same problem: they need a 'simple' low-latency card for modern computers with PCIe interface. We need one stereo in/out and one MIDI in/out. Home musicians like me are not interested to pay extra $500 or more for multiple unnecessary features. Your company still produce low-latency sound cards, buy they have a lot of features that are not necessary in a simple home studio.
I wanted to buy a similar simple low-latency sound card for the new PCIe slot, but low-latency sound cards are not manufactured any more! All companies like ESI and M-Audio stopped manufacturing simple low-latency cards and started manufacturing high-latency USB audio interfaces. Audient, MOTU, Focusrite, Presonus.I am an owner of a simple and cheap home studio and I wish to share my problem with your company: I bought a new PC, but my old trustworthy Audiophile 2496 low-latency sound card doesn't work with it because it needs a PCI slot. my advice to the OP: get a proper USB interface. it's a pain these days, we are talking basically about swapping whole motherboards rather than components. with increasingly only a USB3.1 chip onboard and simulated USB2 ports that's not true anymore either. With USB you have at least two buses onboard and you can find an arrangement in most cases. a plugged-in PCIe to PCI bridge will add to that. So your card may be as fast as it will, it may be the case that a USB interface has lower latency, ironically.
Remember, the graphics are handled over the same interface and may be also built into the CPU. Latency is a system property - so if you don't have a native chipset with a dedicated (PCI controller in the) south bridge everything PCI will be handled by the built in PCH in the CPU - and create a lot of IRQs, which are bad for your realtime performance. So, IF that matters.don't think newer is better. Which is why they're hanging on and no one is like using an original 828.you can buy the BEST $3k RME Thunderbolt (which you likely cant' without a Mac or custom built intel PC) and have higher systemic latency than those Delta cards. But, those old Delta cards had IME, SUPER low systemic latency. Mine is (Gigabyte H370 something or other).so, the bridging adapters are just adding that, and allowing you to move it to different PCIe slots if there's a resource issue.īut, then-if you're using the preamps on those 44/66s.and ADCs.a newer interface will sound enormously better.and latency is irrelevant for audio production. If you find an intel mobo with PCI on it now, it's been bridged for a LOT of years. Honestly-everyone I know is using them RME cards, which 100% have valid drivers for modern Windows. You can buy a PCIe to PCI bridge adapter for not a lot and keep using them.