[linux-audio-user] Best(saving *time* and some money) linux souncard for a laptop

[Arnold Krille]

Hi,

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 23:08, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 Jun 2005 21:46, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > USB. Edirol devices usually work well. Or the Tascam US-122
> > which has an own driver in the kernel.
> Maybe the Echo Indigo I/O?  A nice, affordable, reliable, well-supported
> stereo mini-jack in/out PCMCIA (sorry, CardBus) card.
>
> It will almost certainly give you better performance and less hassle
> than a USB device, but you won't get much hardware flexibility, you'll

You will get better than 3-5 ms latency with cardbus instead of usb? Please 
prove it!

The tascam has excellent pre-amps (at least for that money), XLR-inputs, 
analog inserts, phantom power, direct monitoring, no software-controllable 
mixer (no hassling with several different programs each doing their settings 
and disturbing your sound) and is fully powered over usb (even phantom 
power). And with a recent computer you can get 5ms latency easily, at least I 
get them with my pc and the tascam.
What else do you want except more channels?

> Maybe better for on-the-road recording than an effects box, but worth a
> look.

The tascam is good for on-the-road recording as well as an effects box, I 
already did both these things with it. And used it as mic-preamp for 
recording with my bigger soundcard when I needed more than one stereo-out for 
a monitor-mix...

Arnold

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