[linux-audio-user] External sound card for laptop.

[Thomas Hauth]

Hi Arnault !
Be careful with external sound cards! A friend of mine buyed the 
creative labs sound blaster extigy

http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=207&product=585

for his laptop and he has got serious latency problems ( >200ms) on 
windows using Cubase. This external "card" uses USB which seems to be a 
bit too slow for this kind of application.
Maybe there is firewire Hardware out there ? ?

Greets,
Thomas

Arnault Teissier wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just move out to singapore (Is there some people staying in singapore
>in this mailing list?), and i only have a laptop now. Before, i had a SB
>Live card, and i would have a new card, for my Laptop (better than my
>old one, or at least alike). I need about 1-2 sound input, 1-3 sound
>output, and 1-2 midi I/O USB sound card. Or maybe PCMCIA. But i would it
>working with ... linux. And i cannot find any good sources who tell me
>which external sound card work pretty well. I'm mainly using jackd and
>pd.
>Someone could maybe report a good experience with this kind of hardware,
>and advice my a specific external sound card. 
>
>Regards
>
>  
>