> 1. basically buffersizes/samperate decides the latencies
No, there are other audio interfaces with MUCH higher latencies at the same buffersize and latency.
Because drivers do not perform so well, etc..
> 2. and depending on the audio interfaces, it can cause some more latencies
> (but in this case Rme will have the lower latencies than others)
I didn't say that no other vendors cannot reach similar performance like RME.
But RTL is only one aspect of a recording interface.
RME has very performant and stable drivers and puts together the best overall package. Besides the driver, there are yes other things:
- Quality of the hardware
- excellent designed and matured mixer software TotalMix FX. One mixer for all RME products, high product maturity
- FPGA based design, upgradeable
- extremely long driver support, for some products >20 years
- very detailed written manuals of excellent quality
- excellent product features (DURec, Autoset, Remote control (Auxdevice Support, MIDI over MADI, MIDI Remote [AVB])
- well-thought-out selection of I/O ports
- very well add-on products free of charge (DIGIcheck, TotalMix Remote, etc)
BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub14