Cirrus
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Hmm, the Audient stuff does not register, there?
The ID22, 24, and 44 have optical, (I don't know about the EVO line)
I have the 22, which I really like, two nice pres, insert points, four outputs for either reamping or dual monitors with nice monitor control via their software.
I don't really know about latency, though, because I never monitor through plugins, or the DAW.
I recorded an EP with it, and got really nice sounds.
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/0U5Q5tgpRy81FAhchIIZKS?si=AH5vT5wdR3eGKI-bAbDVkA
I like the sound of those Audients - the preamps are perfectly respectable and playback sounds nice to me, and particularly 6 years ago when I decided to get the iD22, the form factor felt like a step in the right direction for small home studio setups since there was no need for a mixing desk/ Mackie Big Knob style monitor controller.
But... the drivers aren't amazing, and nor is the reliability. I've had some practically show stopping issues with both the iD22 and an iD44+asp800 combo I had for a year for an album project. The iD22 developed crackling/popping/ high noise floor issues across all ins and outs, I had to replace a capacitor inside which seems to have helped but not everyone can do that, and it's a very common problem looking online. The monitor mixer software has graphic issues with some AMD processors, making it essentially impossible to use, which really gave me a headache a few weeks back when we had a session player in.
In all, it's been enough to make me long for the golden days of my old RME fireface 800.
Latency's been nothing special with either card, and on the subject of that non-deterministic latency that's causing some friction above, I'm not gonna claim to be an expert on the technicalities but I've had some issues trying to hybrid mix with hardware from session to session, getting differing amounts of unreported latency that make synching printed hardware round trips back into the session a bit of an annoyance.