Re: why my simple ? hasn't get answered?
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 07:45 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> > $ hdspmixer
> > Card 0: RME AIO S/N 0x579bcc at 0xfddf0000, irq 18
> > Card 1: USB Device 0x170b:0x11 at usb-0000:00:13.0-1, full speed
> > Card 2: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbf00, irq 20
> > Card 3: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbb00, irq 21
>
> Oh, wow, that is some fancy audio. With stuff like that, do you
> usually just run JACK?
Yes ;).
The RME card for my situation is very expensive, while still one of the
cheapest pro cards, but it has an amazing good sound quality and
important interfaces, such as ADAT.
The USB device is crap, I tested MIDI via USB, but it's disgusting
regarding to jitter, it's a very cheap device.
One TerraTect is a gift and I bought the other for 30,-€ at Ebay. It
were my first sound cards, today I use them for MIDI.
Card 4: KORG INC. nanoKONTROL at usb-0000:00:13.0-2, full speed
wasn't connected, it's an elCheapo, but very useful device with faders,
and knobs that can send MIDI controllers, e.g. to control a virtual
mixer or settings for a virtual synth, resp. hardware synth too.
I seldom use the computer for entertainment, but when doing this I
usually use ALSA, but sometimes also jack. PA isn't installed, since it
tends to get in the way for audio production.
If I should use MPlayer or something else, I would install a GUI.
For entertainment I still own old stand alone gear.
Jack is far away from being perfect, but for my workflow the best choice
and IMOH it could also become the best solution for averaged desktop
sound users.
Some Linux users have got much more impressing RME cards than the one I
own. 24/96, aka ice1712, Envy24 cards from different vendors, aren't
expensive anymore, at least not the second hand PCI cards. I would
recommend an Envy24 stereo card to users who want to use the computer as
a stereo HiFi recorder/player, instead of using onboard devices. I guess
we all bought at least one or the other graphics in a price range
between 10,-€ and 100,-€, gamers for sure pay much more for a graphics.
So IMO an audio card for around 30,-€ is worth the money for many users.
I always disable on-board sound, but at the moment I'm using the
integrated ATI graphics. I used this machine for a long time with a
NVIDIA PCIe card and I still own this graphics. Sometimes the used
graphics, depending to the kernel and driver seems to have impact to
audio. Shared RAM for the framebuffer or not shared RAM seems not to be
an issue on my machine.
It would be funny to take the best parts from gamer computers, musicians
computers and the finest computer parts from all kinds of geeks to build
one computer. Nobody would need such a super machine, it only would
consume much power for stuff that isn't really used. Comparable to
pre-build computers from a discounter.
I anyway wonder how often people buy new computers. Even if I would have
the money I wouldn't do it. OTOH old Linux installs on my machine
perform better, than new Linux installs.
Regards,
Ralf
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