The main reason we use an ASI card is for simple, multi-platform Livewire I/O support. We're an Axia house, so most of our systems are Livewire based. We actually get fairly decent value for our Livewire card since we can use a single 8x8 stereo card to serve multiple Rivendell studios by assigning a subset of the numerous outputs to each studio via Rivendell's remote audio engine support.
For inexpensive Analog sound cards, we've looked at using the ESI Juil@cards. They come in both PCI ( http://www.esi-audio.com/products/julia/) and PCIe ( http://www.esi-audio.com/products/juliaxte/) variants and offer 4x4 balanced or unbalanced analog IO as well as 2x2 digital IO for under $200. We bought a few, but haven't had a chance to really test them out yet. They advertise Linux compatibility, but our first go on Ubuntu 12.04 didn't seem to want to show us all the I/O channels using the in-kernel drivers. We haven't dived much deeper to try to remedy the issue or experiment with other drivers, etc yet. Maybe others have played with them? Cheers, Andy WMFO Medford 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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