If you can get ALSA to run the card it will work, no matter what it is plugged into. I even have the DVI audio out showing up on one machine. If you can get the cards into the machine ALSA can find them, although there are some cards that don't work [ANTEX] because the company closed down and no one knows how to write code to make them go. Check the cards out on the ALSA project site before you buy. I prefer not to use USB cards because USB power is prone to buzz hum and other issues which all gets added to the audio because the regulation and smoothing is not good enough. This is not a problem if the USB card has it's own power. M-Audio cards work OK and come up on auction sites at reasonable prices. Make sure your #1 card is the best possible because that's the one that will be used to create the audio in /var/snd. If you opt for 44100 as a sample rate be aware that come cheap cards won't go there unless you tell them to in /etc/asound.conf [rate 44100] 2 M-Audio 4 in 4 out [2 stereo pairs] will work. I think they make a bigger one. Standard 5.1 on board sound can give you 5 outs If quality is not an issue the old Sound Blasters can be pressed into service. If your audio is going out to be broadcast there is no substitute for quality hardware. The best you can afford. Same applies to audio in.
regards Robert Jeffares Big Valley Radio On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Ryan Kingham <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Guys..... > I want to run multiple audio cards in my machine, at least 3 out/5 in. > Could I use multiple audio cards that are USB-based or 5 regular PCI > based cards? > If not, what kind of cheap audio cards that would be able to run on my > machine or stuff I can find on eBay that would be able to work with > Rivendell? > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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