On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 02:04:01PM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:29:15AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > > I consider buying the Lexicon Alpha souncard: > > http://www.lexiconpro.com/product.php?id=7 > > > > Is someone using it sucessfully? I understand there > > are "USB soundcards" out there not even appearing as > > USB Audio class devices. > > > > If this card is not working properly with 4.6 or current, > > can people recommend a good uaudio card? > > It depends on what you want to use it for. > > I use a m-audio mobilepre for recording and listening music; > it's class compliant does 16-bit stereo at 48kHz, and the > sound is excellent. It has a stereo preamp and a phantom > power, which is handy. > > > I need it to be uaudio become the machine that will use it > > does not have any possibility of holding a PCI card. > > > > More generally, what is the status of uaudio(4)? > > It works reliably, 24-bit encodings are not supported > though; recently Jacob fixed various bugs, including a very > annoying limitation of the block size.
uaudio supports (most of) USB 1.x/USB Audio 1.x standards. there may be issues with USB 2.x/USB Audio 2.x devices, however, these types of devices aren't all that common yet, unles you're looking for high-end equipment (> 6 channels), but there are some out there. for example, the newer m-audio fast tracks are USB 2.0. creative/e-mu have some USB 2.0 devices. I have looked at USB 2.0 support for uaudio, and I have ideas about how to proceed, but without the hardware in hand ... hmm I see the e-mu 0202 is now ~$100, I should probably ask for one on want.html. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
