Hello all, and thank you so much for your answers! I feel like I need to clear up a few things here for my own sake, sorry for being slow:

* You are referring to an "I/O" USB card that connects to PCI-E as a solution, right?
* I don't really know what IRQs are to which port etc, but I have my soundcard plugged in to one port, and my USB-hub with everything else on on yet another. I also have USB-ports on the front of my case, which are connected to the motherboard directly. Can I somehow find out what's connected to what inside the computer, and how do I modify my IRQ-files to correspond to where I have my soundcard? Will unplugging/replugging and using lsusb -t do that for me?

On a different note: If I were to get a new soundcard instead, does anyone have recommendations of non-USB cards? There seems to be some issues with PCI-cards and newer motherboards (I have a z77 intel chipset or something) that uses emulated and not native PCI. I guess this resricts me from using PCI-cards? (referring to http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10106 ).

I'm using 48khz and 24bit right now, and I record mostly acoustic guitar and vocals (both singing and rap vocals). Is there any reason for me to run 24bit, maybe I could get away with 16bit? I do not really want to reduce quality, even by a little, so if there's any reason not to go 16bit I probably won't.

Again, thank you so much for all responses!

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Len Ovens <len@ovenwerks.net> wrote:

On Tue, March 5, 2013 8:45 am, Gabriel Beddingfield wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Gabbe Nord <gabbe.nord@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm, alarming! I do use both USB keyboard and USB mouse. My soundcard is
>> also USB. I do have alot of other devices plugged in aswell to my USB.
>> Is
>> there any way I can fix this, other then getting "real" plugs for the
>> USB
>> keyboard/mouse? Like I said, there's still a couple of devices that uses
>> USB
>> even if I get rid of the mouse/keyboard.

All that on two ports? On the same irq?

> I'm not saying this is your problem... but use something like 'sudo
> lsusb -t' and inspect which devices are connected to which hubs.
> Unplug as much as you can.  Try different ports.

He has only two USB ports for audio/midi, kb, rodent... and two more things.

Depending on price/needs, my first option would be to get an internal
card, PCI or PCIe. If you are using a USB1.1 device at 16bit/48k anyway, I
would suggest the original ensoniq es1370 cards (should be able to find
free) as they are reasonably quiet, have midi and just work with just
about anything. For 24bit, look for the ice1712 based cards. You will
probably have to pay more for them though. If you want to make use of the
USB device you have, get a PCI(e) USB port. It should have it's own irq if
it goes in the right slot. After an es1370 this is probably the cheapest
solution... you may even find one of these for free too from back when USB
was just coming out.


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Len Ovens
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