[Csnd] searching for an audio intervace

Date	2012-05-05 16:01
From	Stefan Thomas
Subject	[Csnd] searching for an audio intervace
	Dear community, I have had a goord audio-interface, the edirol fa66. Unfortunately, it is damaged. Can You recommand an USB (or firewire) interface that works well with ubuntu? It is important, that it has a low latency (because I use it with midi) and off course sound quality. 4 channel output should be enough, I think.

Date	2012-05-05 17:36
From	Tarmo Johannes
Subject	Re: [Csnd] searching for an audio intervace
	Hello Stefan, I have Focusrite Saffire LE - 4in, 8 out (+2 with spdif), midi in and out, works very well with linux (I use opensuse), latency is fine. The only thing (but I think it is mostly so), it needs that your firewire card or adapter has texas instruments chipset. My laptop uses something else and it did communicate well with the Saffire. I got a PCMCIA firewire adapter with TI chipset and all runs very well. greetings, tarmo On Saturday 05 May 2012 17:01:28 Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, I have had a goord audio-interface, the edirol fa66. Unfortunately, it is damaged. Can You recommand an USB (or firewire) interface that works well with ubuntu? It is important, that it has a low latency (because I use it with midi) and off course sound quality. 4 channel output should be enough, I think.

Date	2012-05-06 13:59
From	Stefan Thomas
Subject	Re: [Csnd] searching for an audio intervace
	Dear Tarmo, thanks for Your reply. How can I find out, that I do have a texas-instruments chipset? Can Your card also be used with USB, not with firewire? The machine that I'm using at the moment has firewire, but it was not easy to find one. If there would be a card that works with USB (and has a good latency) I hope, that I could find more easyly a good computer too, in the future 2012/5/5 Tarmo Johannes <tarmo@otsakool.edu.ee> Hello Stefan, I have Focusrite Saffire LE - 4in, 8 out (+2 with spdif), midi in and out, works very well with linux (I use opensuse), latency is fine. The only thing (but I think it is mostly so), it needs that your firewire card or adapter has texas instruments chipset. My laptop uses something else and it did communicate well with the Saffire. I got a PCMCIA firewire adapter with TI chipset and all runs very well. greetings, tarmo On Saturday 05 May 2012 17:01:28 Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, I have had a goord audio-interface, the edirol fa66. Unfortunately, it is damaged. Can You recommand an USB (or firewire) interface that works well with ubuntu? It is important, that it has a low latency (because I use it with midi) and off course sound quality. 4 channel output should be enough, I think.

Date	2012-05-06 16:38
From	Tarmo Johannes
Subject	Re: [Csnd] searching for an audio intervace
	Hi, >How can I find out, that I do have a texas-instruments chipset? in the terminal lspci \| grep 1394 or use hardware info or something similar utility no, it does not use USB: take care! tarmo >Can Your card also be used with USB, not with firewire? The machine that I'm using at the moment has firewire, but it was not easy to find one. If there would be a card that works with USB (and has a good latency) I hope, that I could find more easyly a good computer too, in the future 2012/5/5 Tarmo Johannes <tarmo@otsakool.edu.ee> Hello Stefan, I have Focusrite Saffire LE - 4in, 8 out (+2 with spdif), midi in and out, works very well with linux (I use opensuse), latency is fine. The only thing (but I think it is mostly so), it needs that your firewire card or adapter has texas instruments chipset. My laptop uses something else and it did communicate well with the Saffire. I got a PCMCIA firewire adapter with TI chipset and all runs very well. greetings, tarmo On Saturday 05 May 2012 17:01:28 Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear community, I have had a goord audio-interface, the edirol fa66. Unfortunately, it is damaged. Can You recommand an USB (or firewire) interface that works well with ubuntu? It is important, that it has a low latency (because I use it with midi) and off course sound quality. 4 channel output should be enough, I think.