On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:31:42PM EST, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > eBay lists a number of these cards for sale, some with pretty good > prices. However, I do have a couple questions before laying out the dinero: > > Is the Omni breakout box just as usable under Linux as the regular > 4x4 box ? It certainly is, although I don't use a lot of the advanced features of the box. I only wanted a couple of mic inputs without having a huge external box to give me space problems with :) > Is the S/PDIF fully supported under ALSA ? Yes, as I have managed to use the S/PDIF to sync another envy24-based card to the Delta 66. > I'm also in the market for a new mobo, but I can't break the bank on > it. I'm currently using an 800 MHz Duron CPU: what would be a suggested > upgrade for a Delta 66-based studio, especially WRT the CPU ? I am also using an ASUS board, but for an Intel processor, running a P4 2.4Ghz. I understand that this is out of your range, but I second the call for ASUS motherboards. -- Luke Yelavich http://www.audioslack.com luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
