Hi Alan, 1. 6XXX ASI cards can do hardware MPEG decoding and timestretching. All ASI cards have huge buffers and take all the load off the CPU leaving basically no possibility of audio glitches. 2. How about RME HDSP 9632 or similar with ADAT IO? (The driver is written by Paul Davis the lead coder on Ardour). Add an ADAT to Balanced box (cheapest being the Behringer ADA8000) and you're golden for as low as $780
For those who are looking for extremely cheap cards (generally unbalanced) look for a card that uses ice1712 (the chipset used in the Delta 1010 or 1010LT) or ice1724 chipsets like the Vantec UGT-S110 $39 Have a great day, Robert On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Got a two parter here: > > 1) Aside from hardware mpeg decoding, what features does an ASI 6xxx > have in Rivendell that cannot be utilized with ALSA sound cards? > > 2) What is a good alternative card? Looking specifically for at least > 2 stereo in, 4 stereo out BALANCED card in current production. > > Expanding on my questions a little bit: > > I am fairly new to Rivendell. Been tinkering with it for about a year > now. Our very first system is on its way to be installed as I type > this. We are really starting to get serious about upgrading all of our > systems to Rivendell. Our current system are DOS 6.22 based. > > It would be nice if we could just re-used the old sound cards in our > current automation systems, but unfortunately, they are all ASI 4xxx > series cards. > > Although we keep an eye out on ebay for ASI 6xxx cards, that isn't a > good way to plan an upgrade for the number of stations we have. > > I really like the M-Audio Delta 1010 - That looks like the perfect > candidate, but aside from ebay, I don't see anyone who sells them. I am > starting to think it may be out of production. Again, not a great way > to plan a major upgrade over time, unless we purchase a couple dozen at > once, which won't happen. > > Thanks! > > -Alan > > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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