On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:32:18PM -0500, RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On 21-Jun-2004 Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > } On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 10:56, Matthew Barber wrote: > } > -> > } > > and now m-audio. Here's to German audio excellence! Those cold winters > } > > drive you indoors to tinker with great machines and perfect them, I > } > > guess. :) > } > > } > I don't think M-Audio is a german company, though. And while M-Audio > } > makes some great products they also make some very understandard ones: > } > Most of their USB audio cards are very hard to get to work on Linux, > } > if at all, contrary to what M-Audio says on their website.<- > } > > } > > } > About M-Audio... we had been using a Delta 1010 in our studio, with some > } > heavy 96k usage under RH9 and basically a CCRMA setup. We had two of > } > these cards fry and become totally unusable - they had a terrible > } > high-pitched hum and pretty much no audio output. > } > } We also had a problem with some of the 1010's. The audio sort of died > } and the power led in the front panel of the rack mounted ad/da unit > } would not light properly. Turned out a couple of electrolytic capacitors > } in the internal power supply voltage doubler had died. We just changed > } them... > > > :} Just get a 66... midi and excellent sound at a halfway decent price... If you mean the Delta 66, it does not have midi. I own one. It does sound pretty darn nice. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
