Re: [LAU] mackie onyx blackjack

So I got the Blackjack for Christmas and it works flawlessly with JACK
(playback tested in Ardour and Audacity, I haven't tested recording
yet). In Audacity ALSA playback works without problems as well, but it
doesn't work with Phonon, it seems. I can't get sound out of VLC,
Amarok and the like, it just falls back to my internal soundcard. I am
using KDE on Arch Linux with the recent 3.1.5 kernel – any ideas
somebody how to fix that?

But apart from that I must say that I am impressed and glad that the
Blackjack works out of the box with JACK, that's the important thing
after all. Can't wait to test recording when I am back at my home.

Thanks, drz, for letting us know that the device works. I think I will
have some wonderful time with it. And funnily I also had cast an eye
on the Rode NT-1A microphone, so that will be my next investment.

--
Peter Crighton | (mainly) Progressive Rock musician based in
Mainz/Wiesbaden, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de
2011/12/7 drz <drz@rizzux.org>:
> Am Montag 05 Dezember 2011, 23:14:18 schrieben Sie:
>> This is good news! I'm looking for a good USB 2-channel audio
>> interface for christmas and I was almost decided on the M-Audio Fast
>> Track Pro, which should be working out of the box with a 3.1 kernel,
>> too. But I reckon the Mackie is a way better device. It only lacks
>> 96kHz recording, but I think I can go without that.
>>
>> --
>> Peter Crighton | (mainly) Progressive Rock musician based in
>> Mainz/Wiesbaden, Germany
>> http://www.petercrighton.de
>>
>
> This may be getting OT, because its more of a help in a buy-decision. Sorry
> for that.
>
> First of all, I bet its way better than the Fast Track Pro. Mainly because of
> the preamps. But I havent checked the M-Audio out myself.
>
> But I have to add, that I did not check it out with a realtime kernel. Im on
> PowerPC (Powerbook G4) so I think I would have to compile the kernel myself.
> (I couldnt find a realtime kernel for PowerPC in the debian repositories,
> PowerPC repositories seem not to be that well maintained, cuz its kind of rare
> hardware these days, whatever, so Im hesitating fearing to have to struggle
> with too many problems, I want to make music rather than kernel compiliing in
> my freetime). I record in Cubase (Win XP) if I it depends on latency.
>
> This brings me to latency, which i didnt really check out in linux yet.
> Latency in Windows is no problem at all. But I heard about the lack of a good
> working 64-bit Windows 7 driver. So check that out if you are on Windows 7 64-
> bit. I once installed it on Windows 7 32-bit and there was no problem
> recording in Virtualdub (with Video, camcorder-micros are crap ;) ).
>
> So what I want to say is, I dont know if realtime kernels depend on special
> (and working) features in the driver or if it just works (realtime) if the
> driver gets the signals out of the box.
> I just tried out recordings in audacity, meaning 'live' recordings.  The sound
> of the blackjack is great with a decent micro (Rode NT-1A here).
>
> Greetings to neighbours from Frankfurt/Main
>
> drz
>
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