I agree with Ben, mostly. You want to avoid onboard audio... The chipsets just can't hack it for the latency and bandwidth required for DJing. They also tend not to have decent ALSA drivers, though usually better than Creative's... Creative just sucks. In so many ways.
I actually looked at building a PC to more or less the same specs as you describe recently (before going flat broke after buying a power amp and mixer ;) ) and what I found was that I think that a mATX board with a single PCI slot is probably the most cost-effective (and feature rich) way to go. Take a mATX board and stick an M-Audio 2496 ($100 card) in it, as well as some memory, and you've got an instant super-low latency and high-fidelity DJing box. Check out some of VIA's stuff, though if you're prepared to go a-digging, there's a German embedded systems company called Kontron that does Core 2 Duo mATX systems... And man are they snazzy. If you say you're a post-grad student and you want it for a side-project they might do you a deal. But short of that, VIA does some nifty x86 micro-form stuff. If you want to use a USB/Firewire control surface I'd recommend the Xponent like Ben said. It's by far the slickest thing out there. If you don't want to lay out that kind of cash, try for some cheap decks and vinyl control (though you'd need an M-Audio 1010LT instead of a 2496 due to the connectivity requirements, making those *super* cheap decks) or the Hercules MP3. I've heard very mixed things about the Behringer BCD control systems, and the Vestax ones are just stupid expensive. Hercules and the Xponent both get consistently positive vibes though. Hope that helps. :) ~Yorick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
