[PD] [OT] New machine - sound hardware?

[nils]

I've been using a firewire presonus firepod with the freebob drivers 
under linux.  With Ubuntu Studio and the real time kernel I can get 
around 2-5ms with no dropouts.  It also works in OSX and windoze.  The 
midi also works fine.   The presonus has been good so far, well 
designed, metal case, lots of 1/4" jacks 24/96.  They lie a bit on there 
spec sheet.  They claim it's 10 in 6 out, but in reality you get 6 x 
1/4" ins and 4 x 1/4" outs with a stereo digital spidif in and out 
ganged up on the midi breakout cable.  And I think they let you 
replicate an output on your headphone jack, but it's not truly another 
out, at least as far as I've been able to tell.  As far as a $325 CDN 
soundcard goes, it's pretty good.
  I also have a midisport 1x1 that works fine in ubuntu. 

Nils

Ed Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Been off the list - overworked and ill...
>
> So, after my laptop was stolen, I bought a new one. But really a new 
> one, so now I have some serious problems...
>
> Technically this does what I need in every way but sound hardware. Two 
> instances of PD use seperate processors of the CPU, so sound and PDP 
> can run in two PDs ;~) Well, The audio latency is 280ms and I still 
> get dropouts. Damn you Dell ;-{
>
> BUT - there is no PCMCIA cardbus slot. Only a new expresscard slot, 
> which might become useful given a year or two. Of course I am hoping 
> that there is a solution to my audio hardware problems, so I ask a few 
> questions now.
>
> 1. Has anyone a working firewire (ieee1394) interface with their 
> laptop that runs with low latency (<16ms, MIDI in to audio out) under 
> Linux with PD? What is it and what driver (ffado? freeBoB?)
>
> 2. What MIDI interface under Ubuntu? I have tried and tried again to 
> get a Midisport 2x2 working with both the source code (both versions - 
> 0.5 and 1.2) and the Ubuntu packages - no luck!
>
> 3. USB audio interface? I know this is a long shot...ALSA has never 
> worked with PD on any computer I have owned.
>
> There is also the expresscard interface - for which their are only two 
> soundcards AFAIK - Creative X-Fi (support has been dropped, and no 
> source code available) and Universal Audio X-Pander (I can't afford 
> it, and there's no Linux support as yet).
>
> So, are there any really good reports of successful hardware/linux 
> combinations? I really think we and the rest of the Linux community 
> need to crack this. I'm not a good enough software developer to write 
> drivers and I don't have much time right now*, but the best hardware 
> is firewire these days, and RME don't make a PCMCIA expresscard interface.
>
> Searching the archives lead me to few emails, one success with freeBoB 
> and an Edirol interface was the only optimism I found. PD under Linux 
> has become pretty much useless with this new computer - dropouts 
> everywhere. (PS, Window$ Vista is the operating system that stops you 
> operating, and is bad with every audio program I have found).
>
> But as the old computers die, we'll be left with these machines with 
> their altered hardware configuration. It's getting harder and harder 
> to run PD on new hardware.
>
> Best,
> Ed
>  
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