Hi, If you're looking for a good solid card that can be found on ebay at a reasonable cost, the M-Audio Delta 1010 has 8 analog in's and 8 analog outs (so 4 left/right pairs). It's also got digital in/out. Its balanced audio (or as close as you'll find on an inexpensive card), and they sound good.
The one issue I've run into on the 1010's - in the breakout box there are 2 capacitors which like to go bad - they're on the main power in. I've repaired 3 of these breakout boxes which have all failed with the same issue. The symptoms - you'll lose power and all audio (or sometimes audio will just sound really bad) in the breakout box. Replace the capacitors (there are 2 of them that can go - I usually replace both - and they don't always show visible signs that they are bad) and the unit works again. If you're looking for unbalanced audio, then M-Audio has a Delta 1010LT - which is essentially the same card as the 1010 but without the breakout box, and with unbalanced audio. But they work. There's also the M-Audio Delta 44 and 66, both of which have 4 analog in's and 4 analog outs (2 pairs each), the 66 has an additional digital in/out.show For other cards, if audio quality isn't an issue then I've had luck with soundblaster live 5.1's and even super cheap c-media based no-name cards (yes, the cheap cards don't sound very good, but if all you're trying to do is set up a demo unit on some local CUE quality speakers, they work well and everyone seems to have a stack of them sitting in a corner somewhere that they're willing to give away) I generally avoid USB stuff - not only for the sound quality issues I've run into, but even when I set the USB cards to be a specific ID within the alsa configuration, they still randomly like to grab different card ID's upon a reboot, making a reconfiguration of audio within Rivendell a necessity. I've also had USB stuff randomly die, plus one time I had someone unplug the USB audio card so they could plug in their "phone charger cord" (and yes - this was a USB plug on the back of the computer... I never understood why the person dug around on the back of the computer especially when a perfectly good USB port was on the front of the computer)... fortunately it was just a demo machine. But not something I'd want to do on a production unit (I don't even like using USB stuff on a demo unit) > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [RDD] Audio Cards > From: Ryan Kingham <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, November 12, 2014 6:02 pm > To: [email protected] > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
