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

[Patrick Shirkey]

Chris Madak wrote:
> thanks for your input.  so far, i've heard nothing but good about the 
> 828, so i suppose i'll be picking one up soon.  i agree with you about 
> latency and dropouts on osx, as i've had similar experiences.  who 
> knows, perhaps when i have time, i'll install knoppix plus agnula demudi 
> on the ibook i use for live performance.  it's on the to-do list 
> anyway...unless anyone can recommend a better linux distro for audio 
> performance.
> 

The other option is to pick up one of the new firewire devices eg. from 
maudio.

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=mobileinterfaces

All the input from the JACK developers says firewire devices will play 
nicely. Once someone has one it will be more likely to get the ALSA 
developers to write the support for it.... about an 18 month process of 
testing in case you're keen ;]


> -chris
> 
> On Tuesday, January 27, 2004, at 05:30 PM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have the 828mn2 and I love it.. but PD for audio on OS X is not very 
>> good.. you can't get latency under 15ms no matter what and there are 
>> tons of dropouts for gui activity or loading files.  I had better luck 
>> with latency in Windows and Linux... but I -love- the 828mk2..
>>
>> /*
>> Matt Nish-Lapidus
>>
>> www.ekran.org/mn-l
>> matt at ekran.org // mattn-l at rogers.com
>>
>> "What's this fish doing in my ear?"
>> */
>>
>> On 27-Jan-04, at 1:14 PM, Chris Madak wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>> PD, Jack...
>>>
>>>
>>> For that matter, does anyone have any advice on the Motu 828mk2 with 
>>> pd, under os x and/or linux?
>>>
>>> -Chris
>>>
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