On Sat, 21 May 2011 16:56:04 +0200 Ralf <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 22:10 +0800, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > If you cannot keep your Envy24 card for MIDI I/O, you might want to check > > out > > the ESI MIDIMATE II. It's a minimal USB MIDI interface (it's really > > just a cable, > > no box) which works very well in my setup. This could open up a few more > > alternatives for you, in case you decide on a device that would > > require you to remove > > the Envy24 card. > > I've got 2 PCI slots and two Envy24 PCI cards. I guess that most other > PCI audio cards ship with a MIDI interface too, but I'm not sure if the > MIDI jitter will fit to my needs. Fortunately Jack2 from svn (jackd > --sync -Xalsarawmidi -dalsa ...) + my Envy24 cards do fit to my needs > regarding to MIDI jitter, but audio doesn't ;). I do have a Swissonic > USB device, but I avoid to use any USB device when making music, perhaps > I'm wooed by fad ;), I even disable USB card reader by my > session-handling-scripts (sudo killall -9 -w pcscd ;). No USB mouse, > keyboard or printer etc. here. To be honset, I didn't tested zthe USB > MIDI with current Jack2. I can see how the packet-based nature of USB could create jitter when using a USB<->MIDI device. But how could some unrelated device like a card reader create MIDI jitter? On the topic of sound cards: can anyone recommend a cheap external USB sound card with many separate outputs (8 would be nice) and good Linux driver support? Professional-level sound quality isn't paramount, just lots of outputs. :) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
