> From: Ryan Kingham <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RDD] Audio Cards > Message-ID: > <CAJOKjTfy6DKLtsF79pR+=RVedeU=pn+pLEB7R28LxdFE3z=4...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > 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? >
I would also recommend the M-Audio 1010, but have never actually used one. Instead I've been using the Presounus Audiobox 1818 with great success (other than very confusing ALSA volume controls). So which ever one you like between these two are vetted choices. Note that if you plan to use Jack Connection Kit with Rivendell, Jack requires all the clocks on all the sound cards to be locked together. ALSA has a feature that can attempt to lock some independent cards together. I've never tried it but folklore says it doesn't work very well. Jack requires this because it then can then allow you to mix two or more signals together to a single output very cleanly without resampling, buffering, or added latency. So this is why a single multiple channel device (that then should run from a single clock) is better than several independent ones. I've used the routing capability in Jack so much that I still haven't even wired up most of the audio on the Broadcast tools ACS8.2 we bought (use it mostly for the GPIO functions and silence sense), and also don't even have a mixing console inline with the station (only have a production room console that can feed in and out a couple of channels of the Audiobox) and yet are able to do rather complicated things on our station like multiple streams, remote broadcasts (with studio "talkback") and lots of other source and destination switching. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
