Thanks again for the reply, and I may take your advice and stay completely away from USB.

Hallo, Wade Winright hat gesagt: // Wade Winright wrote: On a laptop, USB is a decent way to get sound. Just not with the Quattro. Which is a total piece of junk. I own one, I know it. Stay clear of the Quattro and - to make things simple - of all M-Audio USB devices as many are just crap. Having said that, there are many good USB devices, that do actually work. This ranges from simple inexpensive multichannel devices like the Audiotrak USB devs up to the Tascam USB devices or the Terratec Phase 26, which all provide high quality recording. I tested a lot of devices (~20) and most also worked decent with Jack.

Hallo, sigir hat gesagt: // sigir wrote: I could think of the Audiotrak Maya 44, which lacks midi, though, if you need that. Ciao

On Wednesday 21 April 2004 3:56 am, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Can anyone else back up the Emagic 6|2m statement? Does it really work?

I use the emagic emi 2|6 which has 2.6.x kernel firmware support (along with the 6|2). It has worked quite reliably for me (though I've never performed with it on linux, only mac). The jackd/usb thing has been rough on me also. Be aware, you will not get reliable low latency audio with any usb device currently. At one point I was told that there are workarounds that would help usb latency but; 1) the timing of the jackd development cycle wasn't right to address it 2) none of the jackd developers care for USB audio and therefore fixing it's not a priority I really like the emi 2|6 but... as I've said I'm a bit saddened by it's poor jackd performance. For those of us who are 'mobile' usb is the only solution and firewire suffers the same shortcomings (so no options left, short of shelling out big bucks for pcmcia), don't know if we'll see any love... I've proposed taking up a collection or setting a bounty on jackd/usb support before. IIRC only one other person thought it a good idea. -ry On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 14:10, Wade Winright wrote: > First, I would like to thank everyone for their advice and opinions. THey > have been extremely valuable to me. > > Can anyone else back up the Emagic 6|2m statement? Does it really work? I > see no reference to it on alsa-project.org. > > If this is a decent working usb solution, I'll probably jump on it. > Thanks again, > Wade > > On Wednesday 21 April 2004 3:56 am, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > Reuben Martin wrote: > > > > As I am only in the posession of a laptop, PCI is not an option. > > > > Are there any PCMCIA otions out there, or should I wait until > > > > Firewire/USB 2.0 becomes more available? > > > > > > I don't think the audio spec changes with USB 2.0. > > > > Indeed. USB 2.0 has 8000 subframes per second, but this doesn't > > change things much. > > > > > That would make backwards compatability a little tough, but I may > > > be wrong. > > > > The USB 2.0 spec says that 2.0 devices should work in 1.x mode, too. > > > > The only 2.0 device tested so far is the Audigy 2 NX, and it doesn't > > really work. (It doesn't work in 1.x mode, either, so I think the 2.0 > > support in the driver isn't broken.) > > > > > Wade Winright wrote: > > > > Not having purchased the Quattro yet, can you or anyone else > > > > reccomend the Quattro, or is there a better USB multi-input unit > > > > out there that I should look at? > > > > Edirol devices usually work reliably with Linux. However, the only > > device with more than two inputs is the UA-1000, having ten inputs and > > outputs, which may be more than you want. > > > > AFAIK the Emagic EMI 6|2m works. > > > > > > HTH > > Clemens

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 20:56, Clemens Ladisch wrote: But the question is, will it work in Linux? Anyone know or have any theories?

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 23:26, Clemens Ladisch wrote: I found this grepping the source of 2.6.5: sound/usb/usbmidi.c: /* Edirol UA-1000 */ So someone has tested at least the MIDI side of things.