[LAU] A year of Linux Audio revisited - would like to know your oppinion

[Sebastian Tschöpel]

Hi Al,

your right on that point: Old windows habits but it's not a driver.
I meant "firmware". My bad. In my case, I had some serious headaches
because of the firmware for my M-Audio Oxygen8 --> didn't worked
immediately after I plugged it in.

No firmware, no oxygen8.

 > there's no software to use for storing presets on the Axiom 25 (only 
Windows) but that's OK
> since I don't need that function.  
> And the Control Pad came with BFD
> drums that so far I cannot use on Linux (haven't looked at it that much
> either).  I wouldn't call that hardware issues.

I would. Of course this problem isn't caused by the hardware itself but
its a hardware issue to me when I can only use "basic functionality" because
there is no software available to do this kind of job. I had the same 
problem
with a Wacom Graphire tablet. No expresskeys, only the basic functions.

Some people can live with that but I don't.

> The M-Audio 1010LT card did not require either any configuration apart
> from installing it in the PC and reading the manual to know what the
> bunch of wires means.

Just as my terratec. By contrast. a friend of mine is close to throw his 
computer out the
window since his soundblaster something doesn't want to record anything.
I don't say that you'll experience constant hardware problems, but that
for a less experienced user it could get dissappointing under certain 
circumstances.

> And I
> wouldn't be surprised that _any_ MIDI keyboard would simply show up in
> jack after connecting

That is correct for MIDI devices since it is a very old standard. If you 
plug them
in via USB it doesn't have to be that easy --> like my Oxygen 8 or a 
friend who
uses the E-MU 0404 USB. No chance.

Best regards,
Sebastian.