waedi wrote:The main part of an interface is the driver software.
Sorry, but then you didn't understand the whole design.
It's not only about stable and lag free drivers and software, with RME you get more..
You also need to add hardware and RME specific features like e.g. Steadyclock, Steadyclock FS, RME specific MADI extensions (MIDI over MADI, Delay Compensation), Auxdevice Support for XTC (and hopefully soon 12Mic) and features like Autoset, DURec, ...
And regarding hardware, the whole hardware design:
- FPGA based design, where nearly everything can be fixed later by firmware upgrade, this makes a huge difference and is one of the cornerstones of being able to support the products for such a long time with driver/sw updates up to 20+y for some devices already.
- communication to PC is being performed through FPGA, not 3rd party communication chips, where nothing could be changed and not a single bug could be fixed
- experience to use the chips in the best possible way, example: see the new ADI-2 DAC where the new DAC chip itself has no invernal over protection, this was solved by RME firmware, etc
- proper circuit designs
BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub13