9 Mar
2013
9 Mar
'13
6:46 p.m.
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 09:00 -0800, Len Ovens wrote:
On Sat, March 9, 2013 4:30 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Yes, there are several weak points. I e.g. would set up an install using
the vesa driver. RAM today usually isn't an issue, but the sound card
will be a serious issue. I'm thinking of some musicians who don't use
the computer for music them self. Modern PCs with Windows 8 with some
integrated audio device.
I only want to be able to play at least a stereo track (a temporary mix
of a production with much more tracks) and to record some tracks with
microphones for drums. Perhaps it's needed to use a mixer and to record
a stereo mix, I guess onboard surround devices can't record more than
stereo, especially in duplex mode.
It would be easy to at least visit one friend living close to me,
perhaps 1 km away, disconnecting and carrying the tower would be too
much work, but taking an USB drive, it would be an easy and short walk
only.
For my mobo I noticed that the default USB slots don't share IRQs. When
I bought the USB drive I also bought a sheet with two USB slots, since
there are 3 double-sockets for 6 additional USB slots. I bought a sheet
with 2 single jacks, instead of one double-jack. When I tested all the 6
additional ports, I noticed that 2 are free and 4 do share IRQs, 4 ports
I usually unbind. Perhaps vendors of mobos take care that the ports that
are available by default, seldom cause IRQ issues? FWIW, the 2
additional ports I can use are provided by one double-socket, so there
was no need to buy the sheet with 2 individual jacks (missing the
polarity protection a double-jack has got).
There's the possibility to use 4 + 6 USB ports, but to avoid a shared
IRQ with the RME card, I only have 4 + 2 ports.
If vendors are smart, they always put the ports that share an IRQ to the
by default unused ports on the mobos.
Regards,
Ralf
This drive should be used as a backup media only,
but I'm thinking to
buy an additional external hard drive for recording, to be able to visit
a Windows user (Mac became seldom here :), but to boot Linux from the
drive and to record on the drive.
Sounds like fun :) now the amount of ram in an unknown system comes into
play. Assuming you are taking a USB audio IF, then USB irqs have to be
looked at before deciding where to put the IF, USB stick and drive (DVD
might in this case be better than USB stick, though the USB sticks seem to
be more reliable). I personally have not had any problems a USB drive
being in a USB port that shares irqs while recording, but I can not say
for sure that a write or read was forced while I was recording.