The effective throughput of USB 2.0 is roughly 280 Mb/s. One channel of audio is 48000 samples/s * 24 bits/sample = 1.152 Mb/s. Theoretically you could transfer over 200 channels of audio on USB 2.0.
Interesting.
I thought that USB2 was bottle-necking audio interfaces, which is why thunderbolt was used on some to get lower latencies and stuff...
so from what I read there, the Axe II could have benefited from a thunderbolt connector, but then again that has licensing issues, as opposed to usb 3.Not quite up-to-date but nevertheless interesting:
http://proaudioblog.co.uk/2015/09/usb-3-vs-thunderbolt-interfaces/
true.Not a single computer here at home or in the office has Thunderbolt. Can you imagine the outcry if it had a Thunderbolt interface which 99% of customer's computers don't have? "You mean I have to buy a new computer just to use Axe-Edit???!!!!"
true.
then again I guess you guys will have to 3 years from now.
I hate the Thunderbolt/USB-C ports on my MacBook. Total failure.
Not a single computer here at home or in the office has Thunderbolt. Can you imagine the outcry if it had a Thunderbolt interface which 99% of customer's computers don't have? "You mean I have to buy a new computer just to use Axe-Edit???!!!!"
You do realize that more than 1% of Axe users have Macs with Thunderbolt, right? My multiple Macs have both USB & Thunderbolt & so could the Axe III. No outcry what so ever.