[PD] Can anyone tell me not to buy a Quattro or a UA-20?

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Dan Wilken hat gesagt: // Dan Wilken wrote:

> I'm looking to buy a sound-card. According to past posts on the list, 
> both the Midiman Quattro and the Ediroyal UA-20 seem like good options 
> with reliable Linux and OSX experiences. Has anyone had recent 
> experience to the contrary? Is there another 4 channel I'm overlooking? 

The UA-20 isn't 4-channel. The Quattro doesn't seem to work currently
with kernel 2.6. If you can wait a week: I will test 18 USB interfaces
on Linux the next days, and I will report about this somewhere. I do
have a Quattro, and it's working so-and-so.

> Has anyone unplugged these during a performance and moved them to 
> another machine, leaving the original behind playing through the PCI 
> (or built in) card? Mac and Linux.

Huh? 

> Also, do either of these reduce CPU load? Do the PCI cards do this more 
> effectively? Enough so to change my mind?

PCI is much more efficient than USB (1.0).

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__