8Ch USB Soundcard

[Felix Pfeifer]

Hi List,

is there anyone using a 8 Channel (or more) USB-Soundcard
with planet ccrma? I read the alsa soundcard matrix and found
support for Edirols UA 101, but it seams the driver is very
experimental. Anyone got an idea wich interface i should by?

greets
Felix

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[sevol-3]

On 10/9/09, Felix Pfeifer <pfeifer.felix@...> wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> is there anyone using a 8 Channel (or more) USB-Soundcard
> with planet ccrma? I read the alsa soundcard matrix and found
> support for Edirols UA 101, but it seams the driver is very
> experimental. Anyone got an idea wich interface i should by?
>
> greets
> Felix
>

Hi Felix,

If you need to record from all 8 channels using Linux I don't think
you'll have luck with any USB soundcard. Under Linux only USB 1 is
available because there's no USB 2 standard. Hence, every device
manufacture does things a bit different - so, no USB 2 Linux modules.
I think USB 1 throughput will safely allow 2 (or maybe 4?) channels at
most.

Your best bet is going firewire. Focusrite has at least one 8 channel
soundcard. There's others too. have a look at the Ffado device support
list. You can check what's supported & working for people here:
http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport/list

happy hunting,
                             -s

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[S C Rigler]

On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 02:45 -0700, sevol wrote:
> If you need to record from all 8 channels using Linux I don't think
> you'll have luck with any USB soundcard. Under Linux only USB 1 is
> available because there's no USB 2 standard.

Is this just for audio interfaces?

I've dealt with plenty of storage devices that work just fine at USB
2.0.  Otherwise nobody would be able to fill up those 1TB external
drives so quickly.

--Steve

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[Felix Pfeifer]

> Is this just for audio interfaces?
 yes this was about audio interfaces.

i found that the edirol ua-101 should be
supported from alsa. But the driver is kind
of experimental. Did anyone ever try
this card on Fedora/ Planet ccrma?

Felix

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[linux media 4]

sevol wrote:

> On 10/9/09, Felix Pfeifer <pfeifer.felix@...> wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> is there anyone using a 8 Channel (or more) USB-Soundcard
>> with planet ccrma? I read the alsa soundcard matrix and found
>> support for Edirols UA 101, but it seams the driver is very
>> experimental. Anyone got an idea wich interface i should by?
>>
>> greets
>> Felix

> Hi Felix,
>
> If you need to record from all 8 channels using Linux I don't think
> you'll have luck with any USB soundcard. Under Linux only USB 1 is
> available because there's no USB 2 standard. Hence, every device
> manufacture does things a bit different - so, no USB 2 Linux modules.
> I think USB 1 throughput will safely allow 2 (or maybe 4?) channels at
> most.
>
> Your best bet is going firewire. Focusrite has at least one 8 channel
> soundcard. There's others too. have a look at the Ffado device support
> list. You can check what's supported & working for people here:
> http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport/list
>
> happy hunting,

If you want to go with firewire, I have purchaced the Focusrite Saffire
Pro 10. Focusrite works closely with ffado developers and as a result
produced pretty solid results for a few of their firewire interfaces,
and are known to have great preamps.

Also, I get the impression that there's (not) a lot of firewire
controllers that work well with ffado. But, Texas Instruments
controllers are said to work well (mine is a Texas Instruments firewire
interface built into one laptop and a PCMCIA card in the other).

I wrote a HOWTO to get up and running with the Pro 10 and CCRMA/Fedora10
  that probably will be helpful no matter what firewire device you choose...
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2009-March/015554.html

The only thing I forgot to mention in the HOWTO is what CCRMA Packages
to install...
bash> yum install jack-audio-connection-kit qjackctl ffado

Hope this helps,
Rocco

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