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Harry.<br><br>Great news! Thought I had read previously they work well but worth double checking before buying.<br><br>Yeah I know about the DJx, but as my desktop has been in bits for many months and not sure if/when I am likely to put it back together (build a new one) I feel it is worth having the recording capabilities on the laptop.<br><br>ExpressCard slot on my laptop comes off a Texas Instruments chipset so I believe it should work very well.<br><br>Regards, Dale.<br><br><br>(PS on lists like this should I reply below so it's easier to read for people on Digest versions of the mail, rather than above like I have done? Been a while since I used many mail lists but sure I remember something about down-posting rather than up-posting...)<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:53:30 +0100<br>Subject: Re: [LAU] ExpressCard sound card (Indigo IOx)<br>From: harryhaaren@gmail.com<br>To: dj_kaza@hotmail.com<br>CC: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br><br>Hi Dale,<div><br></div><div>The Echo cards are in principal very well supported in Linux, as Echo actively support development of drivers.</div><div>They're even nice enough to post sources to a sample driver on thier site.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've got an Indigo DJ here (that's 2 stereo outputs, one headphones level w vol control, the other line). If you don't need inputs perhaps that's a good choice? As far as support goes, assuming your PCMCIA slot is good, it works *extremely* well. I'm running 5 ms with it, on a moderate laptop and assuming your JACK graph isn't too heavy it won't xrun at all. Very happy with it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Slight drawback is that one needs the "echomixer" (part of alsa) to control the volume, as it provides 8 virtual outputs. But the echomixer is a good tool, and if you don't need to reconfigure it, it keeps its settings from last use. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I picked mine up 2nd hand for a great price, perhaps worth checking out the 2nd hand market?</div><div>My advice: buy it. They're great :) -Harry</div></div> </div></body>
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