On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Richard W.E. Furse wrote: > > There are none. The VX Rocket is the only PCMCIA device that could be > > considered a serious audio interface, and it supports only 2 channels. > > > > --p > > I believe there is (was) a multichannel version of this around (may be > output only), however I gather that both cards have rather bad S/N ratios > because the A/D converters have to sit inside the laptop, very close to a > lot of other electronics and probably not too well shielded.
if by both you mean the rme card as one of them, you are mistaken. their pcmcia card is just a card which connects to the external breakout box, which contains all the good stuff. they also make a low-priced pci card that hooks up to this same breakout box, so you don't have to spend a fortune if you need audio either on your laptop or home system (just not at the same time). it also allows them to keep the price lower. > Decent multichannel audio on laptops is turning out to be rather annoyingly > difficult. I've been waiting for ages for the USB-based M-Audio 4in/4out > card. i wouldn't call anything usb decent, as latency (as far as i know) will be too high. > About the only other option I'm aware of (and which I'm now seriously > considering) is the MOTU Firewire card. A very serious piece of audio kit - > it's a fairly shallow 1U rack with lots of ins and outs. It's expensive and > quite a lot to carry around - and I have a suspicion that writing a Linux > driver may well be nontrivial. it's not anywhere as good as the rme stuff, and i think similar in price (it's performance is similar, at best, to the delta cards [so i hear]). fwiw, dave
