On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Yorick wrote: > I agree with Ben, mostly.
FIrst off, I truly appreciate the tips and hints. I wish I could afford devices like the innamix hardware, but it's outa my current league, and to be honest, requirements. > 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. You mean the Creative USBs? Of course I have one of those... :-) I may end up eBaying it or just shelving it, depending. > 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 > ($100 card) in it, as well as some memory, and you've got an instant > super-low latency and high-fidelity DJing box. My thoughts exactly. I plan on some eventual harsh desert environments, and am building accordingly. (Basically building on my car computer experience -- now there's a harsh environment for a computer.) http://wps.com/projects/MP3-system/index.html > Check out some of VIA's stuff, though if you're prepared to go > a-digging, there's a German embedded systems company called Kontron > that does Core 2 Duo mATX systems... And man are they snazzy. Thanks, I'll rtfm Kontron. Had bad luck w/VIAs with wifi drivers, so I'm sticking w/Intel. Sad. Was considering an ASUS board, have good luck w/their stuff in general. > If you want to use a USB/Firewire control surface I'd recommend the > Xponent like Ben said. Yeah, it's expensive for me, and I'm a rank amateur, but if it's well-supported (too bad about the LEDs) then all in all it may be worth it. Four good channels is a positive factor. I have just enough illuminati confetti to build a computer and get a pair of powered speakers, and MAYBE a powered subwoofer. 0.6K$ for the control surface eats into that, eh. I have the Herc Control MP3, the one WITHOUT the sound card, that seems to have a lot of issues with driver support. Might have to chalk that and the Soundblaster up to "experience". I think my other practical choice is the other Herc model (integral USB soundcard). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
