Re: [linux-audio-user] A machine for live gigging?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] A machine for live gigging?
From: Frank Barknecht (fbar_AT_footils.org)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 03:45:49 EET


Hallo,
Dan Harper hat gesagt: // Dan Harper wrote:

> > For soundcards RME and M-Audio are youre best bet, avoid USB if you can.
> > The processor doesnt really matter, but you probably want something with
> > decent floating point performance, so a Pentium 4 or Athlon XP. You want
> > 512+ MB of ram.
>
> This is interesting... What would be a solution for a laptop where
> PCMCIA is not available?

USB is not that bad. It's broken by design, but still it works rather
well. No one with a sane mind would buy a RME PCMCIA card just for
stereo or 4 channel output. But avoid M-Audio USB devices. Many of
them don't work at all on Linux.

ciao

-- 
 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__


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