[LAU] six channel output sound card recommendation

[david]

Arnold Krille wrote:
> Am Freitag, 3. Oktober 2008 schrieb david:
>> Jozef Henzl wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> i'm developing some software for company i'm working in, for playing back
>>> the recordings of a telephone calls, radio transmissions and stuff. The
>>> application obviously uses jack audio server and is running on a SuSE
>>> 10.3. Audio has to be played back to the six separate mono outputs, and i
>>> am searching for a sound card supported by a jack. The card should be PCI
>>> or USB. I don't need a hardware mix, and the sound quality can be low, as
>>> a recordings are did in a 4 or 8 kHz  - no sound card can make the output
>>> worse i think :)
>>> I've found m-audio 2496 to be fairly reasonable, but i'm wondering if
>>> some of inputs can be configured as an output.
>> Maybe the Delta 1010LT? I don't remember how many outputs it has, though.
> 
> As the name suggests, the 1010 has 8+2 ins and outs (8 analog and 2 
> digital)...

Ah, so it could do it for the OP.

>> Maybe JACK could handle multiple USB audio devices for output?
> 
> Why not use the average built-in soundcard in surround mode? That gives yousix 
> channels (with non-pro quality) at no extra costs...

Hmm, haven't met a built-in sound card with that many channels, but I'm 
a bottom feeder when it comes to computer equipment.

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