Re: [LAU] USB audio device recommendation?

On 5/4/07, Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
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> My spiffy new ASUS laptop that I thought was so great, is saddled with the
> dreaded Ricoh firewire chip (as well as having it on a shared interrupt
> with, well, *everything*).

I note that pcmcia cardbus firewire cards generally cost less than 60 bucks.
I have no idea which currently manufactured ones work well with linux, or if
your pcmcia slot is also sharing irqs with everything....

Rather than throw good money after bad and buy an external FireWire card, I
> may be a smarter move to give up on FireWire and try USB instead. (And, no,
> it's too late to return the laptop. Which is what I knew would happen).
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> I do *not* need high-bandwidth, heavy-duty multichannel audio I/O. I don't
> record bands or live audio. Almost all my music is done inside the computer
> with softsynths. I will have stereo outs, and that's all that will used.
> Occasionaly I will plug in a guitar, so I'd need one (1) Hi-Z input. So a
> simple, cheap interface with two analog/SPDIF out and two analog ins, is
> really slightly more than I need.

Got no help for ye.

I would, however, like as low latency as possible. I'm used to -n3 -p128 on
> firewire, so if I could find a USB interface that could handle that, I'd be
> totally happy.
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> The M-Audio Delta seems like the default answer. Any other
> recommendations?
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> - -ken
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Received on Sat May 5 00:15:04 2007