Does any one have any insight if this will (positively) affect the possibility of support for TB3 in Linux?gimmeapill wrote: In the news today, Intel is still putting some weight behind TB it seems. For the better or worse they're gonna put the TB3 controller on die:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05 ... -adoption/
On an older post:
I probably just don't understand how things work, but if USB 2.0 is good enough, why can't I record with "low" latency (4ms) when I have plugins in Ardour (when I only realize I need to rerecord something in the mixing process) without a milling xruns. Even with no plugin, (jack with 3 periods, 48K/256) has more xruns that I would like. (Most of the time, when I go back and listen to it I see no problem, though.) And when I tried to use Carla to load amp simulations, I had constant xruns...GuntherT wrote:USB 2.0 is capable of delivering the speed necessary to move audio in and out of a computer. USB 3.0 would increase the bandwidth, but being USB 2.0 can handle 32 channels in and 32 out, that satisfies the requirements of most people using USB audio interfaces. If you need more than 32 channels in either direction or work with high sample rates, I think there are professional audio equipment options (Thunderbolt, AVB, etc.) that are preferred over USB for latency and stability. Unfortunately, Linux compatibility on those devices is rare, if it exists at all.
Since the machine is not weak (i7-4771, 16GB of RAM, SSD) and "optimized" for audio (as in http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/system_configuration), I was blaming the interface (Focusrite 2i2 2nd generation). Am I wrong? USB 3.0 or TB3 would not help with that? (In that case, where is my system failing? CPU? Memory?)