What's a good USB audio box [was: Re: [linux-audio-user] Just how bad is USB audio?]

[Frank Barknecht]

Hi,
iriXx schrieb:
> Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > I *might* shell out a bit more eventually. 
> i would reccomend it then... when i bought mine i saw it as an 
> investment... then again with my kind of work i have use for the 4 
> outputs particularly...
> 
> one thing about the Quattro is it isnt bus-powered, its mains powered 
> ... this i find helps because its less of a drain on my modest little 
> thinkpad 600E... (PII 366Mhz, 224Mb ram)... but for portability's sake i 
> did enjoy trying out the Edirol UA-3 - if you're not likely to want as 
> many inputs, and if you want something thats really light to carry 
> around with you and has bus power... then i'd suggest going with the 
> UA-3... cant remember what the UA-20 is, i dont think i got that one on 
> review but it might fit the bill better....
> 
> i had absolutely no problems running the UA-3 once i had usb-audio set 
> up too,... just plug it in, get alsa up and running, and go....

Now that also sound interesting. As you might have guessed, I intend to use
the interface with Pd and I also like to do recordings of interviews. Now I
already have an Oxygen 8, so I wouldn't be midi-less if the audio card
hasn't got Midi. I looked a bit around at various online vendors and it
seems, the Edirol boxes are quite nice and a bit less expensive than the
M-Audio cards. The UA-20 is 239 EUR at my dealer, so it might fall into my
intended price range. More outputs might be nice with Pd but I fear, that
the bandwith might not be sufficient?!

ciao
-- 
Frank Barknecht