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2016/10/11 10:53:09 (permalink)

Anyone using Antelope Audio interfaces?

Well, I'd like to know what you think. Just ordered the Zen Tour.

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Re: Anyone using Antelope Audio interfaces? 2016/10/11 11:24:28 (permalink)

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Re: Anyone using Antelope Audio interfaces? 2016/10/11 12:00:30 (permalink)
Cheers, batsbrew, saw that. Also some other threads over at Gearslutz. And there's a good review in this month's Future Music, granting it 9.5/10 and a Platinum Award. Still, wondering if anyone here is using Antelope.

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Re: Anyone using Antelope Audio interfaces? 2016/11/05 11:48:19 (permalink)
Well, delivery took too long, canceled the order.

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Re: Anyone using Antelope Audio interfaces? 2016/11/08 11:36:19 (permalink)
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Well, delivery took too long, canceled the order.



Though RME may not appear as exciting as the new Antelope audio interfaces (no continuing development of propriatary plugins), they're absolutely rock-solid... with a long/proven track record.

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Re: Anyone using Antelope Audio interfaces? 2016/11/08 11:54:40 (permalink)
I think you're right Jim, and that new UFX+ should be wonderful. Still, it just doesn't do it for me. I'm a sucker for beautifully sounding as well as looking stuff. So I'm going to hang on a bit. Those Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 protocols, often over USB-C, may do away with latency altogether. Here's looking at Apogee and maybe UA for future developments. Who knows, half a year from now. 

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Re: Anyone using Antelope Audio interfaces? 2016/11/08 13:01:38 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Fleer 2016/11/08 15:15:48
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Re: Anyone using Antelope Audio interfaces? 2016/11/08 16:02:07 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Fleer 2016/11/09 14:03:05
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Those Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 protocols, often over USB-C, may do away with latency altogether. Here's looking at Apogee and maybe UA for future developments. Who knows, half a year from now. 



Keep in mind that Thunderbolt (with full "PCIe via Thunderbolt" drivers/support) will offer performance on par with PCIe.  
It will not surpass PCIe performance.
 
Another thing to keep in mind:
The amount of I/O being discussed here is nowhere close to saturating the USB-2 bus.
Simply throwing additional unused bandwidth at the situation isn't going to increase performance.
 
We've got the PCIe bus:
PC hardware and the OS are ultimately going to determine just how low you can take round-trip latency.  
  • USB2:  The Fireface UFX yields 4ms total round-trip latency at a 48-sample ASIO buffer size 48k
  • PCIe/Thunderbolt:  At a 32-sample ASIO buffer size 48k, you're right around the 3ms mark
That's as good as it gets (at least for the next several years) until the PCIe bus and OS are superseded.  
 
RME, MOTU, and Lynx all have PCIe audio interfaces that provide a 32-Sample ASIO buffer size.
 

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Re: Anyone using Antelope Audio interfaces? 2016/11/26 19:27:20 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Fleer 2016/11/27 13:46:36
FWIW: I use Antelope's Isochrone OCX clock, and I love it.

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Re: Anyone using Antelope Audio interfaces? 2016/11/29 11:59:04 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Fleer 2016/12/02 11:46:17

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"Stay"
"The Time is Magic"
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