[linux-audio-user] usb-audio enquiries

Hi there I've been reading the list for some weeks now, but did not see anything related to USB, so I'm just asking : Is *my* setup "viable" ? Athlon2000XP TBird 256Mg RAM (I know, I know:( ) Novation X-Station 25, latest firmware (1.3) Agnula/Demudi 1.2.1b Gnome Hydrogen => Jack => Ardour And, heck, *everything is working smoothly* (Ardour is amazing, really amazing), exept for one detail : The monitoring is crackling, buzzing, no wait, only crackling. But when I look at the waveform, in Ardour, it looks pristine, I'm pretty sure that if the cracks heard were actually recorded, I'd see them on the waveform, right ? I think I tried everything that jack allows in terms of bitrate, and frequency. Everything is package-based, and being the lamer that I am, I'd really like to keep it this way. To put it another way : I never got any tarball to compile properly, even the slightest windowmaker applet. Basically, what I want is multiple (up to 16 I'd say) audio tracks, and hydrogen sync'ed to it. Is that even english ? I hope I'm making sense, please excuse me if I don't. What I expect from this quistion is something along the lines of : # Nobody ever had satisfactory result with USB-Audio in Linux (ouch) # Get at least the double more RAM, then come back # Have you tried <this> Thank you very much, feel free to redirect me to the archived threads if this very subjet has been addressed before, and again, please, forgive my bad english, I'm really doing my best. Keep stompin' -philippe -- <-------------- www.halluci.net -------------->