Cesare Marilungo wrote: Nice nice, but a too expensive for me though... What do you guys think about a Tascam US122L USB 2.0 Interface for example?

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 07:19:45PM +0200, schoappied wrote: Isn't it only about 175 euros, well under then 200 you said you could afford? Dolphin Music in the UK has it for 150euros. I'd rather go with the Lexicon Omega for the same price. The Omega is very nice.

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 07:57:02PM +0200, schoappied wrote: Well, I do have the Omega. But I bought it used at a quarter of the current retail price. I've never seen such a deal on a delta 1010lt. Also, I have had reason to have a portable interface. And when I'm at home, the Omega replaced my mixing board (all 8 inputs are active at once and go through a simple level only 8x4x2 onboard mixer). The Delta1010lt is probably a good bit lower latency, but if you don't need real time software effects, and if you don't need to record more than 4 tracks at once, and you don't need 96khz sampling, then most signs point towards the Omega. If I was going for a PCI card for home to use in the most straight forward manner, I would go for a Delta 66, and I would hunt on ebay for the best deal I could find. (just don't ask why I'm going with a Marian Marc 4 instead). And frankly, I'd be unlikely to buy any of the devices we've talked about new. I buy cables new. I buy things new if I need them more quickly than I can order them. I buy things new if they just can't be found for a good price used. But if I have time to wait for delivery, I always look for used first.

New install of fedora core 6 with planetccrma packages 2 weeks ago. Delta 1010LT continued to function perfectly. In fact, previously broken s/pdif send now works. -Joe D On May 27, 2008, at 3:10 PM, schoappied <schoappied(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 28/05/08 10:01:07, schoappied wrote: That depends on the version of ALSA. Part of ALSA is in the kernel and part is in user-level tools. For debian testing the official kernel image is 2.6.24. If I remember correctly this includes ALSA version 1.0.15. The ALSA tools are at version 1.0.16. Checking the ALSA project homepage (http://www.alsa-project.org) 1.0.16 is the current version so this is fairly up-to-date. Anyone know the corresponding versions for Fedora Core 6? Steve.

On 27/05/08 18:19:45, schoappied wrote: You have just reminded me that I have a Tascam US-122 in the cupboard which I have not used for ages. You'd be welcome to make me an offer for it but read on first... I bought it because it seemed a good entry level unit. It has two channels so you can make a very basic stereo recording of a classical concert with just a main mic pair, or you can record voice and guitar etc. It has mic pre-amps built in and also has phantom power available. The phantom power is not individually switchable - it is either on for both channels or off for both channels and I ran into a problem with that. I was trying to record someone singing and playing guitar. The guitar was one of those that is acoustic but also has a pickup built in so I tried connecting that to one channel with the mode switch set to guitar and connecting a LD condenser mic to the other channel to record his voice. The result was a buzzing noise on the guitar channel. If I turned the phantom power off the buzzing went away but then the mic wouldn't work! In the end I gave up on the pickup and used a second mic on the guitar. The other problem I had with it is that the ALSA driver often did not succeed in setting the sampling rate to 44100 (for a recording desitinted for CD). It reported to jack that it had done so but actually it was working at 48000 meaning you then had to resample. If you have material from elsewhere which you are playing to the performer for them to add another part to this also means what they hear is in the wrong key! Of course, this may be a bug in the driver and it may have been fixed since then. Regards, Steve.

Joshua Boyd wrote: I haven't tested it much yet. Seems fine. Keep in mind also that on the LT all the other i/o are unbalanced (not a problem for me since I mostly need two inputs and I don't have to run long cables anyway). Best, -c.