I was thinking of going back to an internal card for my audio interface.

I used to use a M-Audio Delta 66, but moved to a Focusrite Saffire Pro4 because of the perennial sizzles and crackles problems with Delta drivers. But I have a mountuing suspicion that Firewire drivers may be responsible for one or two malfunctions I'm having with a couple of plugins. This may of course be poor/incomplete writing of their VSTs, but nevertheless internal cards still seem a better idea than Firewire and USB if only in terms of data transfer speeds and therefore latency.

I have the budget to go to a RME HDSPe AIO. I know RME have always been highly rated but I wanted to check first if anyone here was using one of these, trouble free.

I use Sonar X1 and there's a chap posting on the RME forums about dropouts with Sonar 8.5 and although RME people are giving lots of help, and he does have UAD and other complexities, he hasn't resolved his problem yet and this gave me pause for concern.

Thanks,
John

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Popup is using the older version of this card....with Sonar
I've used the HDSP 9652 - which was also great
they are great cards - and have great support from rme - there are not a lot here who would argue against using rme cards....and i think Sonar is well supported/supports RME hardware very well!
you sometimes get gremlins in the works - but if this forum poster is getting lots of help from rme people - i think you'll find his issues get ironed out pretty soon....they are renowned for solving conflicts like the one above!

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I'm using the aio card and have no problems at all... Although it took a while to find the 16 bit output mode default in a windows menu!

Hugh

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