I'm surprised to hear that the M-Audio USB stuff isn't well supported. From what I gather at the ALSA site the Edirol USB interfaces are not working fully either.<br><br>Does anyone have experience with a USB audio interface that works well with Fedora / ALSA / CCRMA?<br>
<br>At bare minumum I need two balanced outputs and 96khz sample rate capability.<br><br>Any advice is greatly appreciated.<br><br>--Francis<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Sean Beeson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seanbeeson@gmail.com">seanbeeson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hey All,<br><br>I'm setting up a laptop audio workstation for the first time and was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the usb audio interfaces. I've been using Fredora + CCRMA for a numbers of years with M-Audio delta cards on my desktop machine. The two USB interfaces I'm currently considering are:<br>
<br>M-Audio Fast Track Pro (and/or Ultra)<br>Edirol UA-100<br><br>I have gathered from other postings that the Fast Track will work. </blockquote></div><div><br>I use an M-Audio Fast Track Pro. You will only have the hardware knobs to control anything. There isn't any software mixer. After 10 hours or so of being on it begins to take on an overdrivin distortion and the only thing that clears it up is rebooting your the system. Once I got up and running with the PlanetCCRMA repo on Fedora 10, I immediately needed more inputs coming into some hardware easily. I have a few external sound producing modules that I would love to take the output from individually and further patch them into the effects in the DAW, but i am limited to the two ins. I really don't like not having some sort of software mixer for it either. I have no idea how ALSA knows how and how much to use of the input signal. In highnsight I would have tried to get a firewire interface(you have to make sure your firewire chipset will work) that has a supported mixer. I would definately go with something that others say has more support. I have yet to get the monitor outs to work. It shows up as two sound cards under ALSA. The second one is the only one with an audio input. As far as I can tell you can only use one of those devices at a time. The one other person who I know using one reported the strange distortion and inability to use the monitor outs as well. Once I got it going I was basically discovering what that person had descrided to me as I went along. But it does work and sounds really good. If anyone has gotten further with one, please let me know.<br>
<br>--Sean<br></div></div><br>
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