From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eliot Blennerhassett Subject: Re: laptop multichannel ethernet OR PCMCIA sound cards Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:24:14 +1200 Message-ID: <4A4B394E.7090707@audioscience.com> References: <1246420893.7599.7.camel@flatmax> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C7F5243FE for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:10:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MM682-0007V6-PD for alsa-devel@alsa-project.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:10:03 +0000 Received: from 121-72-250-62.cable.telstraclear.net ([121.72.250.62]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:10:02 +0000 Received: from eblennerhassett by 121-72-250-62.cable.telstraclear.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:10:02 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1246420893.7599.7.camel@flatmax> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Matt Flax wrote: > We are after an ultra low latency connection to a multichannel in/out > sound card for a laptop. We want a portable system and don't want to > network to a different computer to achieve this goal. > > As we are after ultra low latency, we are interested in both PCMCIA and > ethernet (gigabit) solutions. > > Is anyone aware of any such ultra low latency hardware ? Can you define what you require. Do you want analog or digital audio I/O? Do you need low latency in, out or both? What samplerates do you need? What latency would be acceptable (say how many milliseconds or microseconds). regards Eliot