First, I would like to thank everyone for their advice and opinions. THey have been extremely valuable to me. Can anyone else back up the Emagic 6|2m statement? Does it really work? I see no reference to it on alsa-project.org. If this is a decent working usb solution, I'll probably jump on it. Thanks again, Wade On Wednesday 21 April 2004 3:56 am, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Reuben Martin wrote: > > > As I am only in the posession of a laptop, PCI is not an option. > > > Are there any PCMCIA otions out there, or should I wait until > > > Firewire/USB 2.0 becomes more available? > > > > I don't think the audio spec changes with USB 2.0. > > Indeed. USB 2.0 has 8000 subframes per second, but this doesn't > change things much. > > > That would make backwards compatability a little tough, but I may > > be wrong. > > The USB 2.0 spec says that 2.0 devices should work in 1.x mode, too. > > The only 2.0 device tested so far is the Audigy 2 NX, and it doesn't > really work. (It doesn't work in 1.x mode, either, so I think the 2.0 > support in the driver isn't broken.) > > > Wade Winright wrote: > > > Not having purchased the Quattro yet, can you or anyone else > > > reccomend the Quattro, or is there a better USB multi-input unit > > > out there that I should look at? > > Edirol devices usually work reliably with Linux. However, the only > device with more than two inputs is the UA-1000, having ten inputs and > outputs, which may be more than you want. > > AFAIK the Emagic EMI 6|2m works. > > > HTH > Clemens
