Simply put I'm in the market for an audio interface, probably FW/USB, and as I'm migrating more and more towards using Linux as my preferred platform I am wondering which (if any) interfaces have good drivers for Linux?
For the record I just installed Fedora 6 on my laptop and still using RH9 on desktop. I'm not wedded to these if there is a much better option for audio on Linux though.
Thanks in advance.
p.s. Windows is my other platform.
Audio Interface for Linux based recording
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Polite Company Polite Company https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=95393
- KVRian
- 1193 posts since 23 Jan, 2006 from wrapped up in the fuzz - Boston, MA!
"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which doesn't know that it is counting." - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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- KVRAF
- 4222 posts since 23 Feb, 2004 from Tucson Arizona USA
Why FW/USB? You still can't beat PCI for throughput. Only serious choice for me is a Delta 1010 or Delta AP2496. The company is very open with tech info, and the linux driver couldn't work better.
I prefer the ubuntu/debian package system to rpm, but that's personal.
I prefer the ubuntu/debian package system to rpm, but that's personal.
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Polite Company Polite Company https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=95393
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1193 posts since 23 Jan, 2006 from wrapped up in the fuzz - Boston, MA!
I'm wasn't looking at PCI cards as I prefer to use my laptop for music and therefore PCI is not really ideal (my desktop is the family compy as well as mine). I have been thinking about building a new desktop from the ground up though maybe I'll finally do that. Thanks for the advice.
Also I've been thinking of trying out ubuntu again (it's the first distro I tried before I knew what was going on) what's the most stable/current distro and how easy is it to tweak it to an audio centered OS?
Also I've been thinking of trying out ubuntu again (it's the first distro I tried before I knew what was going on) what's the most stable/current distro and how easy is it to tweak it to an audio centered OS?
"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which doesn't know that it is counting." - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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e to the i pi plus one equals zero
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e to the i pi plus one equals zero
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- KVRAF
- 4222 posts since 23 Feb, 2004 from Tucson Arizona USA
I do understand, but the thing you should consider: a PCI device canPolite Company wrote:I'm wasn't looking at PCI cards as I prefer to use my laptop for music and therefore PCI is not really ideal
provide several channels of Firewire. You could not implement PCI over Firewire... Interfaces like USB and FW are convenient, but they aren't particularly high performance. Just "good enough" that we happen to be able to squeeze enough performance to run things like disks and audio interfaces over them. Notice you don't see any firewire video I/O
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- KVRAF
- 2488 posts since 2 Dec, 2004 from Sydney, Australia
Dell flirts with Linux, that would be a major step to make Linux more mainstream:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--des ... 23604.html
http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--des ... 23604.html
Cowbells!