2x XLR in & 2x XLR out > what should i buy
Sorry to ask it to you like this, but we've been in quite some trouble lately getting a Audioscience Soundcard to work (4503). I've had to install SuSE, and even then it was very lousy.
So for our community radiostation, we are very urgently looking for advice for a USB/firewire or even PCI device that has 2 stereo outputs (preferably XLR) and 2 stereo inputs (preferably XLR) in the $300 range.
One more wish: it should work practically out of the box with 64 studio and Ubuntu.
We know there is a lot listed on http://www.linuxstudiopro.com/#, but we really want to know for sure since we've already thrown a way one month with this other sound card.
thanks
thinking about
we are now thinking about the: M-Audio Firewire Solo Interface
Terratec Phase 24 FireWire M-Audio Delta 66 Audio Interface or the Presonus Firepod
If it says that it is supported (by freebob or ALSA), does this mean that it will just pop up as a connection in JACK? We're actually tending to the M-Audio Delta because of it's price. How is it's latency? with JACK <15ms?
M-Audio has broken compatibillity with alsa
Latest comments in linuxstudiopro.com say that a couple of M-Audio soundcards have undergone "revision" and the changes have broken compatibility with Alsa snd-ice1712 module - since 2007. Therefore at least these models are now broken in Linux:
M-Audio Delta 66 M-Audio Delta 1010 LT
Soundcards of these kind made before 2007 will work fine.
M-Audio Delta 44 seems to work fine (so far..).
Thumbs down for M-Audio for this.
audioscience's own driver
Audioscience website has a download for their own Linux driver aka. kernel module. Have you tried compiling that? You may need to compile Alsa too. Alsa project website has some instructions about this:
http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-asihpi
As far as I know about compiling Alsa et al, it is a job that requires some level of expertise with Linux. It's not hopelessly difficult, please check this out:
http://www.64studio.com/node/504
SuSe is not the way to go - I recommend 64Studio.
aaaargh
We've ordered the M-Audio Delta 66. Are you sure it doesn't work anymore?
About the other Audioscience card: the installer (2.61) only works for mandrake and SuSE machines, and is only compatible up to SuSE 9.3. I've tried compiling ALSA anew, rewriting the installer script, but i just couldn't get it to work..
I hope I will not face the fate with the M-Audio Delta 66.... :(