[linux-audio-user] A machine for live gigging?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Tue Feb 17 20:45:49 EST 2004


Hallo,
Dan Harper hat gesagt: // Dan Harper wrote:

> > For soundcards RME and M-Audio are youre best bet, avoid USB if you can.
> > The processor doesnt really matter, but you probably want something with
> > decent floating point performance, so a Pentium 4 or Athlon XP. You want
> > 512+ MB of ram.
> 
> This is interesting...  What would be a solution for a laptop where
> PCMCIA is not available?

USB is not that bad. It's broken by design, but still it works rather
well.  No one with a sane mind would buy a RME PCMCIA card just for
stereo or 4 channel output. But avoid M-Audio USB devices. Many of
them don't work at all on Linux.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__



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