Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe :newt:  
if i buy a guitar, i'll also have to buy this..

so many sound cards!
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m0xEE  

@newt
> so many sound cards
Sell everything and get MOTU, something like 828 — it'll have all your needs covered for years to come.
I have no experience with Mk3, but previous iterations were great cards.

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Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe :newt:  
@m0xee ugh... no. Just no.

Also, I really like Arturia design :blobcatcomfyuwu:
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Eric Zhang  
@newt @m0xee does this 1u rack thing support dma? :cirno_heh:
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Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe :newt:  
@eric @m0xee lol no, it's USB 3 only. Firewire-tards must cope!
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Eric Zhang  
@newt @m0xee
>starts several arguments about dma in an audio interface
>recommends an audio interface that doesn't support dma
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m0xEE  

@eric
But I did note that I've never used Mk3 myself, Mk2 was a Firewire card: soundonsound.com/reviews/motu-
I can only guess why they didn't use Thunderbolt for this one: Mk2 was an aging card already and Thunderbolt wasn't widely adopted yet, they decided to play it safe, I'm fairly certain if they revisit this card anytime soon they would go for it. USB did improve, but it always was and will be poor choice for audio 🤷

@newt

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Eric Zhang  
@m0xee @newt my scarlett solo 4 uses usb 2 and it works fine™. opinion discarded
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m0xEE
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@eric @newt
There are lots of things that "work fine", as you probably know, there are USB video adapters even — doesn't make it a great choice for this type of devices.

What are you even getting at? Should I recommend Firewire cards to someone who had never used them before? No, I shouldn't, it was good, but Apple killed it. It would be same as telling someone to overthrow government when being asked a question about wireless networks — I have my opinions, but I'm not 13 to do that.

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