[PD] about 8 outputs sound hardware, any suggestion?

[derek at x-i.net]

wow, didn't know about that. i had to downgrade my firmware on the card, but it 
is about a year old now. thanks for letting us know!
d.

Quoting julien.breval at tremplin-utc.net:

> Hola
> 
> I just bought an RME Hammerfall Multiface PCI for the same purposes as you
> are 
> looking for.
> 
> > it gets amazing low latency under ASIO, and with some tuning you can get 
> > it to run pretty well with Jack under Linux. see here for Linux 
> > configuration details:
> > 
> > http://pd.klingt.org/files/hdsp-howto.html
> 
> <IMPORTANT>
> This was right, but currently NEW Multiface cards can't be used under Linux 
> anymore. 
> 
> I bought this card in order to use it under Linux and Windows, unfortunately
> 
> the current PCI card firmware (v11) is not compatible with the current ALSA 
> driver. 
> So the idea is to downgrade the PCI card firmware to v10, unfortunately it's
> 
> not possible to downgrade the firmware from v11 to v10 if you have the 
> hardware revision v1.8 (last revision) of the PCI card. I know it works with
> 
> hardware revision v1.4.
> 
> The only solution is to wait for the next version of the ALSA driver or to
> use 
> the Multiface ... under WinXP.  
>  
> --
> 
> Apart this card, there are these ones :
> 
> *M-Audio Delta 1010 LT (8in / 8out) (cheap)
> *M-Audio Delta 410 (2/8) (cheap)
> *see also Terratec cards (cheap)
> *Echo Layla 24 (8/8) : the only card that has the same quality as the RME 
> Multiface, but less neutral (Echo cards color the sound a bit, like MOTU or
> M-
> Audio ; RME cards don't affect the sound at all)
> 
> For modern electronic music the RME looks like being the best choice
> 
> 
> Good luck
> 
> J
> 
> 
> 




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