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

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En/na Arnold Krille ha escrit:

>Hi,
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>On Wednesday 29 June 2005 23:08, Chris Cannam wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 29 Jun 2005 21:46, Christoph Eckert wrote:
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>>>USB. Edirol devices usually work well. Or the Tascam US-122
>>>which has an own driver in the kernel.
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>>Maybe the Echo Indigo I/O?  A nice, affordable, reliable, well-supported
>>stereo mini-jack in/out PCMCIA (sorry, CardBus) card.
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>>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
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>You will get better than 3-5 ms latency with cardbus instead of usb? Please 
>prove it!
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weelll I've been surfing the web looking up all this stuff and I've got 
lots of things to ask:

mini-jack isn't a good think... however I work with a USB drive 
constantly connected to my computer and I use a USB MIDI keyboard... 
Should I worry about the latency? (15ms is perfect for me)
Is it worth using cardbus cards? Are they really better"?

For the Edirol suggestion I found "EDIROL UA-25 USB Audio and MIDI 
interface for Music Recording" and there is a good review pointing out 
some problems with the dynamic range and the input compression...
Do you know any card which solves this?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006AZLSU/ref=pd_sbs_MI_3/104-9681277-5000739?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

On the other hand, what about Mackie Spike Digital Recording System?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006AZLSU/ref=pd_sbs_MI_3/104-9681277-5000739?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

Finally I suppose that Firewire won't work on linux isn't it? PreSonus 
FIREBOX looks awesome... ;( snif
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006VYH1Q/qid=1120314525/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_ur_1/104-9681277-5000739?v=glance&n=507846

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