Quoting David Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Paul Davis wrote: > *snip* > > first of all, a "recording studio" can't run on SB cards - they're > > crap. second, if you want 4 channels of input, you should buy a 4+ > > channel card. there comes a point where the amount of programming > time > > spent solving all that hassles related to this problem "costs" (by > > some metric) far more than appropriate h/w. > > > > you should be counting programmer time as worth at least US$30/hr > even > > if you don't actually pay them. solving this problem reliably, > > especially *outside* of ALSA or OSS, will take a reasonable > programmer > > at least 4 hours to get right in a robust fashion. there, i just > > "gave" you an extra $120 to spend on a decent soundcard :) > > > > --p > > One minor factor perhaps overlooked, is that extra $120 would go > towards > only one sound card, whereas syncing cheap sh*t sound blasters would > benefit a significant number of unfortunate people who can't afford > real > sound hardware? =)
thats *precisely* why we want to do this. there isnt even money to get a $120 sound card (and believe me, in the UK, multi input soundcards are an awful lot more expensive than that, try 200 UKP minimum!) . we also think that this might well benefit the linux community if we can actually get it to work :o) > Of course this just opens me up to: "Well why don't you do it then?". > Maybe I would, seeming as I just have to give my SB Live back and I have > a > heap of Sound Blasters laying around. My guess is, its not easy. yes, that's very much my attitude... i know its going to be difficult... but thats half the fun! ;o) > Hows this for an idea. Removing the frequency generator from the > "slave" > soundcards, and some how rigging them up to the "master" sound card so > they're all driven from the same clock. thanks... we'll look into it :o)) > You know, MacGuyver style. ;) yes... thats just the sorta thing we're doing really! ;o)) cheers, and thanks for your support miriam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iriXx.org Get your own zoom email - click here - http://www.zoom.co.uk/
