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  • VEP & Thunder bolt

    J
    J

    Hi all,

    I've recently read that intel will start to support TB on upcoming Motherboards starting this April. Instead of eithernet, I'm wondering if VEP might switch the way it commuicates between computers.

    I've read a bit about the real limit, or "bottleneck" when streaming instruments is in the transfer between systems, and not cpu, ram, etc.

    Is it worth waiting for a TB Motherboard when considering VEP?

    Cheers,
  • S
    S

    I sure hope VE embraces Thunderbolt. Because sending Audio over thunderbolt instead of Ethernet should really be great to kill the latency ;-)

    best,

    SvK
  • B
    B

    Hmm, but I have found that the power of the slave can impose another "ceiling" to low latency. Or "floor" I should say. 

    What I mean is, I have disovered that a fully loaded slave will exhibit much more CPU usage as you take latency down on the DAW, to the point where it can't cope. So the slave needs to be at least as powerful as would be required to catch up with the network demand for processed audio to be fed back. 

    But yes - Thunderbolt has got to be a good thing, although at the moment it's all daisy chaining and no hubs. A far as I know.

    B
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    D
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    @Another User said:

    But yes - Thunderbolt has got to be a good thing, although at the moment it's all daisy chaining and no hubs. A far as I know.

    Obviously when Thunderbolt becomes available to the general PC building population (later this year) it will have a greater chance of becoming important. However, as it has to be built in to the motherboard, it will take a number of years before it becomes universal, even amongst Mac users. it is also an Intel protocol, so it remains to be seen how that will work with motherboards from other manufacturers. personally I suspect that by the time it becomes the norm better things may be available, such as the original specification that was named Light Peak.

    Regarding VSL using TB instead of Ethernet, I doubt that this will happen any time soon, if at all, because TB is not available to the vast majority of users.

    DG