Hello, I am using Ardour and Jack on my Gentoo box with an M Audio Delta 44. For playing music with just Rhythmbox or XMMS, the sound quality is excellent, and the output level is nice and high. However, when I try to play back something I record in Ardour, I get very low output, even despite a decent reading on the program's VU meters as I play back. I am using alsamixer, and when I turn up the hardware outs I have the output from Ardour routed to, I can here that the sound is distorted, though low. Anyone else with one of these cards have a similar situation? I don't know if this will help, but I am planning on switching to envy24control. Does anyone know if there is a Gentoo ebuild for this around? Thanks for any info. Ben