So what are buffers all about, my audio card allows me to set a ASIO/WDM buffer size in "samples". is higher or lower better?

Im currently defaulted to 64 samples buffer size, haven't had problems with that ever, but which will create higher quality? Lower buffer size or higher buffer size?

What's the skinny on buffer size choice. Small buffers allow for lower latency, but are there advantages to a large buffer size?

just a quick question:

sampling rates - will a higher rate give you higher quality? Or is this just a measurement of how fast the interface syncs with the clock? I am a little confused about this.

I'm using a new macbook pro running windows vista. Pro Tools 7.4. I'm using a Maxtor 500GB external hard drive to write to. Regardless of what I'm doing, whether it be playback or recording, I get errors either saying to increase or decrease buffer size. I believe they are -6085 and -6088. I've been googling like a mad man, and I can't seem to figure out what the problem is.

What is the industry-standard for buffer size?

Ok so i was sitting in on a logic recording session and i remember the engineer saying

" You will have to change the
buffer settings in logic audio preferrences in order to record "
as i was taking in a thousand other studio quirks and rooting paths etc i was only half on the ball... i know terrible hey.

My question is firstly

What exactly is the buffer size? For instance, I have the M-Audio Firewire 410 and in the software interface I can change the buffer size down to 64, and this gives me a low latency in Guitar Rig 2. However, when I raise it I get a higher latency. I figured a buffer meant how much memory is allocated to a specific task, and if there is more memory, shouldn't I have less latency?

Hi Yall
So I Have this great invention in mind.
A phantom powered Buffer for ribbon mics such as the Nady RSM-2 or Oktava ml-52, beyer m130 etc.

Hello!

I'd like to understand why I can't change the Buffer Size - which is on
256 - in my card interface. There is some arrows to change it but
nothing happens when I touch them.

Not possible in Cubase too... to field for doing this is gray, can't
touch it.

I have a Celeron 2.4 GHz et 512 Mb of memory (Windows). I use Cubase sx 2.0.

Frustrated,

I have windows XP pro sp2. I have the infamous intel 915P chipset. Attempting to run pro-tools LE 6.8 with Mbox 2 .
No matter what I do I get error 6086 h/w buffer size error.

1) Will disabling hyperthreading do me any good even though
I have this non-compatible chipset?