28 Dec
2011
28 Dec
'11
3:44 p.m.
So I got the Blackjack for Christmas and it works flawlessly with JACK
(playback tested in Ardour and Audacity, I haven't tested recording
yet). In Audacity ALSA playback works without problems as well, but it
doesn't work with Phonon, it seems. I can't get sound out of VLC,
Amarok and the like, it just falls back to my internal soundcard. I am
using KDE on Arch Linux with the recent 3.1.5 kernel – any ideas
somebody how to fix that?
But apart from that I must say that I am impressed and glad that the
Blackjack works out of the box with JACK, that's the important thing
after all. Can't wait to test recording when I am back at my home.
Thanks, drz, for letting us know that the device works. I think I will
have some wonderful time with it. And funnily I also had cast an eye
on the Rode NT-1A microphone, so that will be my next investment.
--
Peter Crighton | (mainly) Progressive Rock musician based in
Mainz/Wiesbaden, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de
2011/12/7 drz <drz(a)rizzux.org>rg>:
Am Montag 05 Dezember 2011, 23:14:18 schrieben Sie:
This is good news! I'm looking for a good USB
2-channel audio
interface for christmas and I was almost decided on the M-Audio Fast
Track Pro, which should be working out of the box with a 3.1 kernel,
too. But I reckon the Mackie is a way better device. It only lacks
96kHz recording, but I think I can go without that.
--
Peter Crighton | (mainly) Progressive Rock musician based in
Mainz/Wiesbaden, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de
This may be getting OT, because its more of a help in a buy-decision. Sorry
for that.
First of all, I bet its way better than the Fast Track Pro. Mainly because of
the preamps. But I havent checked the M-Audio out myself.
But I have to add, that I did not check it out with a realtime kernel. Im on
PowerPC (Powerbook G4) so I think I would have to compile the kernel myself.
(I couldnt find a realtime kernel for PowerPC in the debian repositories,
PowerPC repositories seem not to be that well maintained, cuz its kind of rare
hardware these days, whatever, so Im hesitating fearing to have to struggle
with too many problems, I want to make music rather than kernel compiliing in
my freetime). I record in Cubase (Win XP) if I it depends on latency.
This brings me to latency, which i didnt really check out in linux yet.
Latency in Windows is no problem at all. But I heard about the lack of a good
working 64-bit Windows 7 driver. So check that out if you are on Windows 7 64-
bit. I once installed it on Windows 7 32-bit and there was no problem
recording in Virtualdub (with Video, camcorder-micros are crap ;) ).
So what I want to say is, I dont know if realtime kernels depend on special
(and working) features in the driver or if it just works (realtime) if the
driver gets the signals out of the box.
I just tried out recordings in audacity, meaning 'live' recordings. The sound
of the blackjack is great with a decent micro (Rode NT-1A here).
Greetings to neighbours from Frankfurt/Main
drz