Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-14 Thread Marco Donnarumma
I'm considering to go for the Saffire PRO 40. It's not fully supported at
the moment, but FFADO received quite good help from them, they say it's
going to be fully supported soon (next 2.1 FFADO release).
Any experience about it?

I'd prefer to buy this and wait, because of its features and quality, Edirol
seems fine but it's too simple for my needs.
PCI looks good too but I'm looking for something different.
thanks again..



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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-14 Thread Ricardo Lameiro
You are right, I have a FA-101 . It works great, but it lack a mixer and
standalone operation. I regret dont wait and buy a sapffire, but i needed it
in short time, so i bought it.

I think is a good choice

2010/4/14 Marco Donnarumma de...@thesaddj.com

 I'm considering to go for the Saffire PRO 40. It's not fully supported at
 the moment, but FFADO received quite good help from them, they say it's
 going to be fully supported soon (next 2.1 FFADO release).
 Any experience about it?

 I'd prefer to buy this and wait, because of its features and quality,
 Edirol seems fine but it's too simple for my needs.
 PCI looks good too but I'm looking for something different.
 thanks again..



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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-13 Thread Olivier Baudu
Good expérience with the Presonus Firepod FP10 (8 e/s, 8 preamps)...
Around 250 €...

01livier

2010/4/12 Marco Donnarumma de...@thesaddj.com

 Cool, thanks everybody for the comprehensive and useful information!
 cheers,


 Marco





 On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Husk 00 hus...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:51 PM, ydego...@gmail.com 
 ydego...@gmail.comwrote:

 s'lam

  I haven't checked recently, but I still have the impression that
 firewire soundcards are poorly supported on linux...


 the edirols FA-66 and FA-101 are working fine ..

 saludos,
 sevy


 I confirm, fa-101 worked perfectly for our last project!
 bye
 husk




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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-13 Thread Arxontis Politis
Just a note for a soundcard to avoid - judging from the really positive
reviews on the Edirols (FA-66 and FA-101) I went for the newer UA-101 which
is exactly the same as the FA-101, but with a USB connection instead of a
firewire (plus a hardware limiter). In this one recording is supported only
in the latest ALSA, however playback is corrupted at the moment. Generally
ALSA has good support for USB devices.

aKis

On 13 April 2010 12:19, Olivier Baudu lamouraupeu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Good expérience with the Presonus Firepod FP10 (8 e/s, 8 preamps)...
 Around 250 €...

 01livier

 2010/4/12 Marco Donnarumma de...@thesaddj.com

 Cool, thanks everybody for the comprehensive and useful information!
 cheers,


 Marco





 On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Husk 00 hus...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:51 PM, ydego...@gmail.com 
 ydego...@gmail.comwrote:

 s'lam

  I haven't checked recently, but I still have the impression that
 firewire soundcards are poorly supported on linux...


 the edirols FA-66 and FA-101 are working fine ..

 saludos,
 sevy


 I confirm, fa-101 worked perfectly for our last project!
 bye
 husk




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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-13 Thread Frank Barknecht
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 04:00:09PM +0300, Arxontis Politis wrote:
 Just a note for a soundcard to avoid - judging from the really positive
 reviews on the Edirols (FA-66 and FA-101) I went for the newer UA-101 which
 is exactly the same as the FA-101, but with a USB connection instead of a
 firewire (plus a hardware limiter). In this one recording is supported only
 in the latest ALSA, however playback is corrupted at the moment. Generally
 ALSA has good support for USB devices.

For USB-1 devices only. USB 2 is shaky.

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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-12 Thread Jaime Oliver
the delta 1010Lt (PCI) is even cheaper, but unbalanced outputs... and only 2
preamps. also out of the box,

J

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Oli44 oliv...@heinry.fr wrote:

 6 Months ago I got a second -hand M-Audio 1010 in PCI/rack format, it's
 jsut perfect with Debian Lenny. No phantom though, only sym jack 6.35

 ++
 OH

 Marco Donnarumma wrote:

 Hi all,
 I know it's OT, but I would like to get an advice from Linux Pd users.
 I'm about to buy a soundcard with up to 8 analog I/O for max
 500euro/pounds and want it to be compatible with Linux (I mean, I would like
 something working out-of-the-box).
 I've been advised about the Terratec Phase 88 Rack..
 Any other suggestion?
 Thanks,



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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-12 Thread Bryan Jurish
moin Marco,

in my desktop i've got an m-audio delta 1010 lt (used from e-bay), which
worked out of the box (8 unbalanced analalog i/o and midi from a cat
o' 9 tails which plugs directly into the card).  its big brother (delta
1010, no lt suffix) has a nice breakout box (balanced) and uses the
same chipset (envy24, alsa module snd-ice1712).  iirc, the terratec
phase88 uses the same chipset with an unbalanced breakout box.

latency was ok out of the box (don't remember the numbers right now,
sorry), but i had to do some os-level tweaking to get things working to
my satisfaction (realtime kernel, irq priorities, pci settings, etc -
all scripted now and available on request).  also, i had to comment out
a few lines in the envy24control sources (dedicated mixer gui for the
card) in order to stop my console from filling up with annoying warnings
-- really nothing more than an annoyance; i can send you a patch if you
have the same problem... if you can afford one, the rme cards are likely
to be much better, but my budget didn't stretch quite that far ;-)

marmosets,
Bryan

On 2010-04-12 14:11:41, Marco Donnarumma de...@thesaddj.com appears to
have written:
 Hi all,
 I know it's OT, but I would like to get an advice from Linux Pd users.
 I'm about to buy a soundcard with up to 8 analog I/O for max
 500euro/pounds and want it to be compatible with Linux (I mean, I would
 like something working out-of-the-box).
 I've been advised about the Terratec Phase 88 Rack..
 Any other suggestion?

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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-12 Thread tim vets
Hey,
on ubuntu, I have good experience with:
-echo layla 3g (8in8out,2preamps, phantom...)
-m-audio delta 1010LT
-m-audio delta 44
-rme hammerfall dsp + multiface, both PCI and PCMCIA (note: the output jack
sockets are too close to each other, which can give you a hard time
connecting more than 2 cables with 'sturdy' jacks.)
all those worked pretty much out of the box

bad experience with:
-firewire soundcard using 'freebob' driver
(I think the brand was motu, or presonus, or focusrite, one of those, I
don't remember exactly...but, while it was officially supposed to work
(checked alsa soundcard matrix) it didn't...)
I haven't checked recently, but I still have the impression that firewire
soundcards are poorly supported on linux...
-m-audio delta 66 no sound, don't know the reason, is anyone using this card
?

gr,
Tim

2010/4/12 Bryan Jurish jur...@uni-potsdam.de

 moin Marco,

 in my desktop i've got an m-audio delta 1010 lt (used from e-bay), which
 worked out of the box (8 unbalanced analalog i/o and midi from a cat
 o' 9 tails which plugs directly into the card).  its big brother (delta
 1010, no lt suffix) has a nice breakout box (balanced) and uses the
 same chipset (envy24, alsa module snd-ice1712).  iirc, the terratec
 phase88 uses the same chipset with an unbalanced breakout box.

 latency was ok out of the box (don't remember the numbers right now,
 sorry), but i had to do some os-level tweaking to get things working to
 my satisfaction (realtime kernel, irq priorities, pci settings, etc -
 all scripted now and available on request).  also, i had to comment out
 a few lines in the envy24control sources (dedicated mixer gui for the
 card) in order to stop my console from filling up with annoying warnings
 -- really nothing more than an annoyance; i can send you a patch if you
 have the same problem... if you can afford one, the rme cards are likely
 to be much better, but my budget didn't stretch quite that far ;-)

 marmosets,
Bryan

 On 2010-04-12 14:11:41, Marco Donnarumma de...@thesaddj.com appears to
 have written:
  Hi all,
  I know it's OT, but I would like to get an advice from Linux Pd users.
  I'm about to buy a soundcard with up to 8 analog I/O for max
  500euro/pounds and want it to be compatible with Linux (I mean, I would
  like something working out-of-the-box).
  I've been advised about the Terratec Phase 88 Rack..
  Any other suggestion?

 --
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 jur...@uni-potsdam.de   -Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology

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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-12 Thread ydego...@gmail.com

s'lam
I haven't checked recently, but I still have the impression that 
firewire soundcards are poorly supported on linux...


the edirols FA-66 and FA-101 are working fine ..

saludos,
sevy

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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-12 Thread Husk 00
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:51 PM, ydego...@gmail.com ydego...@gmail.comwrote:

 s'lam

  I haven't checked recently, but I still have the impression that firewire
 soundcards are poorly supported on linux...


 the edirols FA-66 and FA-101 are working fine ..

 saludos,
 sevy


I confirm, fa-101 worked perfectly for our last project!
bye
husk
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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-12 Thread Martin Eckart
I've also got the FA-101 and it works out of the box with the FFADO
drivers even with my laptop's crappy Ricoh firewire chipset.  Of course
make sure you've got the RT kernel with rtirq prioritizing firewire.

-martin

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 14:48 +0200, becks wrote: 
 On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Marco Donnarumma de...@thesaddj.com wrote:
  Hi all,
  I know it's OT, but I would like to get an advice from Linux Pd users.
  I'm about to buy a soundcard with up to 8 analog I/O for max 500euro/pounds
  and want it to be compatible with Linux (I mean, I would like something
  working out-of-the-box).
  I've been advised about the Terratec Phase 88 Rack..
  Any other suggestion?
 
 Hi Marco,
 i have two soundcards.
 * edirol fa 101 firewire, and works out of the box since old freebob
 driver and now with the ffado driver. (~ 250/300eu second hand).
 * rme multiface I pci (or pcmcia). works out of the box (300/400eu)
 
 both cards are gnu/linux ready, both are goods, but rme is better
 (lower latency, more stability, direct hardware routing, adat in/out)
 
 ciao
 



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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-12 Thread András Murányi
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:48 PM, tim vets timv...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hey,
 on ubuntu, I have good experience with:
 -echo layla 3g (8in8out,2preamps, phantom...)
 -m-audio delta 1010LT
 -m-audio delta 44
 -rme hammerfall dsp + multiface, both PCI and PCMCIA (note: the output jack
 sockets are too close to each other, which can give you a hard time
 connecting more than 2 cables with 'sturdy' jacks.)
 all those worked pretty much out of the box

 bad experience with:
 -firewire soundcard using 'freebob' driver
 (I think the brand was motu, or presonus, or focusrite, one of those, I
 don't remember exactly...but, while it was officially supposed to work
 (checked alsa soundcard matrix) it didn't...)
 I haven't checked recently, but I still have the impression that firewire
 soundcards are poorly supported on linux...


2 cents regarding...
- Firewire: the FFADO driver which works with Jack is under active
development so more cards start working - not with ALSA or PulseAudio
however. They *are* sensitive to different firewire chipsets and Texas
Instruments is told to be the best for them. Anyway i found the firewire
connection pretty fragile because of the physical design of the firewire
connectors and because if the connection gets interrupted for a fraction of
a second it will fail.
- MOTU: one of the best sounding cards in my experience, just don't buy one
because they are extremely unreliable and their customer service is plain
crap.

Get an RME if you have any chance!

Andras
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Re: [PD] [OT] linux multi-output soundcard

2010-04-12 Thread Marco Donnarumma
Cool, thanks everybody for the comprehensive and useful information!
cheers,


Marco




On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Husk 00 hus...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:51 PM, ydego...@gmail.com ydego...@gmail.comwrote:

 s'lam

  I haven't checked recently, but I still have the impression that firewire
 soundcards are poorly supported on linux...


 the edirols FA-66 and FA-101 are working fine ..

 saludos,
 sevy


 I confirm, fa-101 worked perfectly for our last project!
 bye
 husk




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