<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I moved from a M-Audio Delta 66 to an RME 9632 and immediately noticed a whole world of treble that I'd been missing.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also, because the card handles (most? all? a part of?) the audio engine, the computer (at that time, a G4) was a touch more stable, and much more responsive with big projects in Cubase. I'm sure the same thing would apply to Ardour, though I don't have the 66 now to do the comparison.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Everything about the card just seems professional. Even to the point of the ugly-but-super-functional-and-stable mixing software.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I had to juggle around my RME and UAD-1 cards in terms of which slot they are in to get them to work optimally on my G5 but now everything pretty much rock solid (knock on wood).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Matthew<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 3-Jan-07, at 10:35 AM, Christopher Boggs wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Yeah the RME stuff is not cheap at all, but it's high quality...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Just a note, I don't own one, but was warned not to expect much quality out</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">of the preamps (XLR mic inputs) on the 1010LT...I think it was someone on</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">this very same list that mentioned that when I was researching which card to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">buy.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm still trying to get my hands on a used 1010....</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-----Original Message-----</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: <A href="mailto:ardour-users-bounces@lists.ardour.org">ardour-users-bounces@lists.ardour.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[<A href="mailto:ardour-users-bounces@lists.ardour.org">mailto:ardour-users-bounces@lists.ardour.org</A>] On Behalf Of John Emmas</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:15 AM</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To: <A href="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com">paul@linuxaudiosystems.com</A>; Steven Chamberlain</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cc: <A href="mailto:ardour-users@lists.ardour.org">ardour-users@lists.ardour.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: Re: [ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">RME HDSP series cards have hdspmixer which offers the same general</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">h/w specific control, except for 18-26 channels. its a slicker tool, too.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm glad you mentioned RME Paul - I'd never even heard of them!<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>They</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">seem to be making excellent cards from what I can see on their web</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">site - but they're not cheap...! ;-)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">John</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; 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