On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:30:10 +0200 Rhizomatic Nomad <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In short: I'm looking for a mixer which works out of the box with linux. > > Longer story: For an acrobatic/music group I'm looking for a mixer with > different compatabilities: > - It should work as a(n analog) standalone mixer for mics and instruments > - It should work with linux to get the sources into ardour, preferable > replace an external soundcard > - In best case it has Midi support to control ardour and other programs. I just pre-ordered a Soundcraft Signature 22 MTK (*) 22-ch Mixer with 16 x Ghost Mic Preamps, 3 x Aux Busses, 4-band British EQs, Dual Lexicon Effects Engines, dbx Limiters, Switchable Hi-Z Inputs, and USB Playback and Recording This is going to be an upgrade from my Alesis MultiMix16 FireWire board which has been a great little mixer but a bit limited for the live shows/recording I'm doing lately. The MTK version will output each channel individually via USB 2.0 at 24-bit/48kHz. It also has a USB return feature, allowing you to take the pre-fader signal, patch it into Ardour (or other DAW), and take the DAW's output and feed it back in, so you can add effects in your DAW if you want. They're claiming 4ms latency over USB. We'll see about that. I am expecting it to work right out of the box, as USB devices seem pretty well supported, but I won't be able to know until it arrives. The only thing it doesn't have is the MIDI control, but that wasn't one of my requirements. If I wanted to get insane, I might be able to send everything through Ardour and use either a control surface or an app like TouchDAW to control on the fly, but that would be completely dependent on the latencies involved and making all the bits work right. (*) http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Sig22MT -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
