On Feb 21 21:00:15, Jacob Meuser wrote: > 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.
Is someone using one of these? http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrack.html http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrackPro.html http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrackUltra.html (If not, I will probably settle for the MobilePre.) > 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. I suppose this is not supported then, right? http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?category=610&subcategory=611&product=15186 Thanks Jan
