The question isn't zero-latency. I don't see that being achievable given modern digital technology & laws of physics. Perhaps string theory or some unthought of GUT will get us past relativity but for now...
The question is phase-coherence. There are ways to lock specific processing blocks on the same dsp now, but I think that the newer AD stuff does it at a lower level. I didn't plumb through the entire devkit (which u can download a demo of) but I did read through some of the technotes for the newer Kits & Sharc releases and confirmed some form of support for phase compensation when Red mentioned it to me a while back. I'm sure Frank (and hopefully SC) know a lot more about it than I. I just don't know where the STDM interconnects fit into the overall scheme of things, since u can't just open up Scope.exe in the devkit and see what Creamware sees. I'm sure they can figure it out though...
by latency in this sense I meant the delay introduced when sending a signal from one dsp to another (IE currently min 2 samples), didn't mean to confuse the issue.
Yea sorry I was being a bit toungue-in-cheek with my sarcasm. But I did also try clarifying my reference to why stdm cable is an unknown to me (though probably solvable etc).
The Mod III shell needs some * serious * fixing once for all !
The VDAT is indeed most cumbersome, drop " the make it behave like hardware " add stereo and less than 8 tracks option ( most of the time 1 stereo track needed here, duh ! )
Make TripleDAT LE able to record above 16 bits ( shouldn't be that hard )
Poor Midi implementation
No 96Khz support for Dynatube
No 64bit support (Yet?)
VDAT bugs
STS bugs
GUI speed
Hard to get in contact with Creamware
Maximum of 3 cards per machine (I think?)
Very little updates
Is PCIe going to happen or what?
Still one of the best audio production solution, even with the above. Wish I could get 4 cards into my machine. Damn.
CGF