<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:48 PM, tim vets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timvets@gmail.com">timvets@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Hey,</div><div>on ubuntu, I have good experience with:</div><div>-echo layla 3g (8in8out,2preamps, phantom...)</div><div>-m-audio delta 1010LT</div><div>-m-audio delta 44</div><div>-rme hammerfall dsp + multiface, both PCI and PCMCIA (note: the output jack sockets are too close to each other, which can give you a hard time connecting more than 2 cables with 'sturdy' jacks.)</div>
<div>all those worked pretty much out of the box</div><div><br></div><div>bad experience with:</div><div>-firewire soundcard using 'freebob' driver</div><div>(I think the brand was motu, or presonus, or focusrite, one of those, I don't remember exactly...but, while it was officially supposed to work (checked alsa soundcard matrix) it didn't...)</div>
<div>I haven't checked recently, but I still have the impression that firewire soundcards are poorly supported on linux...</div></blockquote><div><br>2 cents regarding...<br>- Firewire: the FFADO driver which works with Jack is under active development so more cards start working - not with ALSA or PulseAudio however. They *are* sensitive to different firewire chipsets and Texas Instruments is told to be the best for them. Anyway i found the firewire connection pretty fragile because of the physical design of the firewire connectors and because if the connection gets interrupted for a fraction of a second it will fail.<br>
- MOTU: one of the best sounding cards in my experience, just don't buy one because they are extremely unreliable and their customer service is plain crap.<br><br>Get an RME if you have any chance!<br><br>Andras<br>
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