| Richard Bowers wrote:
> I'm looking to get an audio card with full-duplex capability and
> digital i/o for transfer to DAT. I read the spec for the SBLive
> card which seems to fit the bill.
I have an SB-Live (not the "value" version which lacks the daughter
card for SPDIF in and out) and I don't like it much. Its SPDIF output
is always 48 kHz and if you put 44.1kHz into it, then it is resampled
(by what I suspect is a rather crude means) to 48 kHz inside the card.
The A/D and D/A seem fine, and of course it has MIDI In and Out. I
have it on my Windows 98 machine at present. I bought it in the false
expectation that it was well supported under Linux.
Trying to get an inexpensive SPDIF audio card which works directly
with 44.1 or 48 kHz could be tricky, but try the list at:
http://www.digitalexperience.com/cards.html
See also the MIDIMAN DMAN cards at:
http://midi-classics.com/hardm.htm
http://www.midiman.de/
I am using a Zefiro ZA-2, which is magnificent - but you have to watch
out for some (many?) PCI VGA cards which upset it. It can resample
from 48 kHz SPDIF input to 44.1 kHz for the computer, while putting
out 44.1 kHz to SPDIF. The resampling is, in my experience,
immaculate. It has no MIDI or analogue in. It has analogue out and
otpical, SPDIF and AES/EBU in and out.
http://www.zefiro.com
Unfortunately it does not yet seem possible to make it run full duplex
under Linux - but I may look into rewriting the drivers. OSS does not
properly support it. There is apparently a way of synching two cards
together for 4 channel work.
- Robin
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