Derek Holzer wrote: > Hi Martin, > > only stereo out for the SPDIF without proprietary stuff isn't too good. > But this is a totally normal problem. I haven't touched the 5.1+SPDIF > soundcard in my ShuttleX once since I bought it!
Yes, and all those soundblasters are supposed to be 5.1 but I never figured out how that happens, still less how to send more than 2 channels to them from pd. > > In regards to my question about the DAC+ADC, what I was asking about is > only the converters, which I could plug into the SPDIF, rather than a > complete soundcard. I use the RME Multiface every day for my own work, > and the Delta 66 is the first on my list for a cheap multichannel card, > so I am familiar with both already. But if the Mini-ITX has a digital > out already, and a standalone DAC/ADC unit is available, I would > investigate that. AFAIK you can only get 2 channels with SPDIF, there is a 4 channel mode but who knows if anyone uses it... Unfortunately the board has no SPDIF input, so ADC is ruled out. There are some varieties of Mini-ITX with IEEE1394, maybe that would be better if there is any firewire hardware that works with linux. > > The logging issue has been discussed here before. The solution is simply > to mount /var on a RAMdisk or similar, espc if the unit isn't online (as > a dedicated installation or sound performance unit might not be) and if > you think you've worked out all the hardware bugs (as HC is still > doing...heh heh) The AudioPint docs mention this as well. Thanks for pointing this out, I'll give it a go. Martin > > best! > d. > > Martin Peach wrote: >> Derek Holzer wrote: >>> Hi Martin, >>> >>> thanks for the heads up. Does the SPDIF output work fine under >>> Ubuntu? How many channels is it good for? >> >> I imagine it carries a copy of the two-channel audio out, but I >> haven't tried it yet. The audio is supposed to be switchable to 5.1 >> but that seems to be only available on Windows (the driver CD only has >> Windows files on it). >> >>> >>> And on that tip...recommendations for a 4 or 8 channel DAC+ADC that >>> isn't the size of a telephone book? >> >> Well the Hammerfall MultifaceII is 1/2 rackmount, you need either the >> PCI or PCMCIA card as well. It's well supported in linux but it's >> expensive. The M-audio Delta 66 might be good, the audio interface is >> smaller than the Multiface and has 4 ins and 4 outs. It's probably the >> same hardware as the delta 1010 but with less I/O, so it should work >> fine. >> >>> >>> Last quiz question: how noisy is the fan on that sucker? >>> >> >> It's a fanless board at the cost of running at 1GHz instead of 1.5. >> There's a small fan in the case that's about as loud as the hard >> drive. Probably you won't need it if the box is well ventilated. It >> would be nice to run everything from a compact flash card but there's >> the problem of logging -- right now I'm getting disk accesses every >> ten seconds or so, which would wear out the card. Maybe logging to a >> small expendable CF card while running off a larger one would work, or >> logging to another machine. >> >> Martin > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
