<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Restivo</b> <<a href="mailto:ken@restivo.org">ken@restivo.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>My spiffy new ASUS laptop that I thought was so great, is saddled with the dreaded Ricoh firewire chip (as well as having it on a shared interrupt with, well, *everything*).
</blockquote><div><br>I note that pcmcia cardbus firewire cards generally cost less than 60 bucks. I have no idea which currently manufactured ones work well with linux, or if your pcmcia slot is also sharing irqs with everything....
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Rather than throw good money after bad and buy an external FireWire card, I may be a smarter move to give up on FireWire and try USB instead. (And, no, it's too late to return the laptop. Which is what I knew would happen).
<br><br>I do *not* need high-bandwidth, heavy-duty multichannel audio I/O. I don't record bands or live audio. Almost all my music is done inside the computer with softsynths. I will have stereo outs, and that's all that will used. Occasionaly I will plug in a guitar, so I'd need one (1) Hi-Z input. So a simple, cheap interface with two analog/SPDIF out and two analog ins, is really slightly more than I need.
</blockquote><div><br>Got no help for ye. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I would, however, like as low latency as possible. I'm used to -n3 -p128 on firewire, so if I could find a USB interface that could handle that, I'd be totally happy.
<br><br>The M-Audio Delta seems like the default answer. Any other recommendations?<br><br>- -ken<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)<br><br>iD8DBQFGO3qge8HF+6xeOIcRApZaAKDz6ChUj5Hat6PwghID+8QF7EvBZwCgju+n
<br>4GeUxchZruE9UWCkLo1JVPo=<br>=5sec<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>_______________________________________________<br>Linux-audio-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org">Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
</a><br><a href="http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user">http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mike Taht<br>PostCards From the Bleeding Edge
<br><a href="http://the-edge.blogspot.com">http://the-edge.blogspot.com</a>