Hey Linux Audio heads,<br><br>I'm happy to announce that after taking
the plunge and buying a Lexicon Lambda USB sound interface, that it
appear to be working fine for my needs with Linux.<br><br>specs:<br>MIDI in/out<br>
Two channels duplex audio (viewed as one 'track' of stereo, or two tracks of mono)<br>Two phantom powered XLR mic inputs.<br>Two inserts for hardware effects (send and receive on one plug)<br clear="all"><br>All in all, a worthy buy....but my big tip for USB audio would be this: make sure to pick your USB port wisely...try to pick one from a bus that has a better IRQ priority (look at the /proc/interrupts output to find a good one, compare to output of 'lsusb' to find optimal port) On my little laptop, it made a HUGE HUGE difference in the occurrence of xruns/dropouts...I had jack setup for ~20ms and still <br>
had problems, i.e. gobs of xruns, where with the right USB port, I could get down to 5ms with total stability, even without a low-latency kernel!!! Also, load the snd-usb-audio module with the 'nrpacks=1' option as explained elsewhere.<br>
<br>BTW, I'm running Arch Linux on my wife's old Thinkpad X40, much lighter and quieter machine than the old Dell Inspiron 8200 I had been carrying around for years (although the X40 has 4200rpm drives, which I think is slower than the Dell, but so far, I haven't needed faster--we'll see)<br>
<br>Best,<br><font color="#888888">-- <br><br>Aaron Krister Johnson<br><a href="http://www.akjmusic.com/" target="_blank">http://www.akjmusic.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.untwelve.org/" target="_blank">http://www.untwelve.org</a><br></font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>Aaron Krister Johnson<br><a href="http://www.akjmusic.com">http://www.akjmusic.com</a><br><a href="http://www.untwelve.org">http://www.untwelve.org</a><br>
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