[linux-audio-dev] Viable multi-channel audio I/O boards for Linux ?

[David Gerard Matthews]

I think someone on one of the lists (ardour-dev, maybe) managed to do 
this.  There was a lot of messing around, however,
and much as I like M-Audio cards I wouldn't recommend this approach to 
someone who just need a lot of analog I/O.
OTOH, doesn't the Hammerfall DSP have a multi-channel analog interface 
as one of its options?
-dgm

Tim Goetze wrote:

>Paul Winkler wrote:
>
>>The 1010 has word-clock sync so you *should* be able
>>to run 2 of them together for 16 analog I/O, or 3 for 24; 
>>i know people do it regularly under Windows, but I don't know what's 
>>involved in doing that on Linux. Probably some
>>black magic in .asoundrc.  
>>
>
>either that, or your alsa code opens both (all three, etc) and
>links them like capture and playback on one card are linked. last
>time this came up on alsa-devel it was claimed to work but no-
>one seems to have done it yet. m-man itself seems to claim you
>can link all of their ice1712-based cards this way.
>
>paul d was a bit worried there may be a slight offset between 
>starting the cards (physically, they are started sequentially)
>but that would apply to the windows drivers as well.
>
>tim
>