[linux-audio-user] A nice PCI audio card for the PC?

[Florian Schmidt]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:45:22 -0700
Malcolm Baldridge <linux-audio at paypc.com> wrote:

> 5) Rich and excellent ALSA support, of course.

Hi, just as a sidenote: you should keep in mind that most [if not all] professional grade audio interfaces do not support hw mixing of playback pcm streams.. thus limiting the normal desktop experience by making you use stuff like dmix, etc [which can be a pain to setup and isn't garanteed to work in all cases]..

basically from my point of view the ideal audio setup is a cheap hw mixing card [like emu10k1 or cs46xx] for the desktop/multimedia sounds plus a prof. grade card for serious audio work..

flo

-- 
Palimm Palimm!