Dear ALSA users, I'm very new to the list, just subscribed right now. In order to do recording of musical live events I previously just used the internal sound card of my ThinkPad T60, which is not too bad for an amateur at all, I think. The only problem is the humming if you run on AC, so I always did the recording on battery, thus being very limited in time. I looked for another solution which must be usable on GNU/Linux. Having looked through the ALSA wiki and googled around a bit, I decided to go for the Roland-Edirol UA-25. I got it yesterday, plugged it into the notebook, configured Audacity to use the new sound card for recording, clicked ok ... crash. Then I visited the ALSA wiki again and while reading the documentation I noticed that the device was shipped with Advanced mode on, 96 kHz rate and playback as default, which was the reason for the crash in Audacity. Once I configured it properly, it worked. But while looking at the UA-25 page of the wiki in more detail, I noticed that there is one typo consistently throughout the whole page (http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Edirol_UA-25). There's always written 41.1 kHz instead of 44.1 kHz (and 41.100 Hz instead of 44.100 Hz which by the way should not have a dot as thousands separator in English, should it?). Perhaps someone should fix that? Apart from that, nice documentation! Concerning the sound quality of the device itself, I have not done intensive testing yet. But at least when recording total silence with the UA-25 there is no offending hum even when recording on AC. I will have to do a proper test with live music, but based on the missing hum and based on what I read on the net so far, I think the decision to go for the UA-25 was not the worst one. Greetings, Stefan -- Stefan Bellon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
