On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Matt Middleton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a small external soundcard that > doesn't require external power (but that also doesn't > drain my batteries). The other important feature is
The power comes from somewhere. > that it should have hardware mixing (can play multiple > streams at once). I currently have an Edirol UA-5 and The Transit has one input and one output. It is on a usb 1.1 bus which means that the max data transfer is limited. So it cannot even record and playback at 96000 at the same time. Ie, two streams at 48000 is the max rate. This will be true of all usb cards. (USB 2.0 would relieve this but at present the snd-usb-audio module does not handle usb2.0. I do not know if the Transit can handle usb2.0 but I strongly suspect it does not). Ie, hardware mixing and usb bus are not a good idea at present. > it doens't seem to have hardware mixing (does anybody > know if this is true or not). I was looking at the > M-Audio transit and it looks pretty nice, but it > wasn't functioning well with ALSA on th last posts I > could find. Does anyone know if this is still the > case? Does this card have hardware mixing? Anyway, I > appreciate any suggestions anyone has. It functions "fine" but getting it to function is a bit of an adventure. See www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/transit.html for a step by step procedure for getting it to function "fine" (It is aimed at Mandrake, since that is what I run, but the process should be easily adapted to any other distro. ) I have not tested it with the 2.6.x kernel, in which the usb bus drivers have changed, and the kludge may not be needed. fine=low noise, low distortion, light weight, cheap ($90Cdn). aplay music.wav ;arecord -f cd >record.wav works. > > Thanks, > > Matt > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
