[LAU] hardware: recording voice and acc. guitar

[schoappied]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 07:57:02PM +0200, schoappied wrote:
>
>   
>> Mmh in The Netherlands, the Delta 1010lt is 209 euro's...
>>
>> And if you had to choose between the Delta 1010lt and the Omega?
>>     
>
> Well, I do have the Omega.  But I bought it used at a quarter of the
> current retail price.  I've never seen such a deal on a delta 1010lt.
>
> Also, I have had reason to have a portable interface.  And when I'm at
> home, the Omega replaced my mixing board (all 8 inputs are active at
> once and go through a simple level only 8x4x2 onboard mixer).
>
> The Delta1010lt is probably a good bit lower latency, but if you don't
> need real time software effects, and if you don't need to record more
> than 4 tracks at once, and you don't need 96khz sampling, then most
> signs point towards the Omega. 
>
> If I was going for a PCI card for home to use in the most straight
> forward manner, I would go for a Delta 66, and I would hunt on ebay for
> the best deal I could find. (just don't ask why I'm going with a Marian
> Marc 4 instead).
>
> And frankly, I'd be unlikely to buy any of the devices we've talked
> about new.  I buy cables new.  I buy things new if I need them more
> quickly than I can order them.  I buy things new if they just can't be
> found for a good price used.  But if I have time to wait for delivery, I
> always look for used first.
>
>   
I read on this site http://www.linuxstudiopro.com/ that delta 1010LT 
(newer versions) are not working on linux???

It seems that there's always a change that your soundcard isn't 
supported anymore on linux one day isn't it?

Dirk