I've been looking at buying a usb 2.0 sound interface to record from an XLR microphone. And I can't seem to get any verification of any such devices actually working, and to what extent it works.
I'm wanting something like the tascam US-122L, or US-144, but google hits on those say they don't work. Older 122's supposedly work, but since I'll most likely be buying a new one I wont be getting an older 122. Other usb 1.0 devices like the Lexicon Omega, Digidesign mBox2 mini, or even a SoundTech Lightsnake would do. But I'm wanting sampling rates that only seem to be obtainable with usb 2.0 or better devices. I would ultimately like to do stereo recording at 24 bits and 96kHz or better. There seems to be plenty of firewire versions and drivers out there ( freebob.sf.net ), but I've run into an informational void when it comes to USB devices of the same type. And none of my current machines have firewire ports. At the moment my laptop is my main computer, so adding on firewire ports is not really an option. Nor is using my laptops onboard sound to record multitrack recordings as anything piped out of the headphone jack has significant bleed over into the microphone input. The mic input is also mono only, and it seems to work itself loose at times with a noticeable random crackle in the recorded track. I've also considered going with an external usb soundcard capable of stereo inputs. Like the Voyetra Turtle Beach Audio Advance SRM. The alsa soundcard matrix seems to indicate that it will work with usb-audio, but I've got no confirmation from the web or the manufacturer. Or any indication about which parts of it works with usb-audio. I've been bouncing through the alsa soundcard matrix, www.linux-usb.org, and even the alsa sources with few fruit. The caiaq driver seems to suggest that the Native Instruments Audio 8 DJ and Audio Kontrol 1 should work. But I haven't been able to google any success stories to verify. I found a number of vendor:device numbers in the usb-audio-mod.c source, but any cross reference to pciids.sf.net yielded no results on the vendor, much less the device. Can anyone verify that anything works, or an audio resource I can look at to help me identify what device(s) I should purchase. I would ultimately like to do studio quality recordings on a $1K+ microphone. But buying the mic is pointless if there's no way (high quality way) to bridge the gap between mic and computer. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
