Hi I had the same problem a while back, I solved the problem with a unitmade by M-Audio called the Ozone which is a small midi keyboard withaudio card built in, it connects using usb which seems to work with somedistro's using madfu.The features which made it useful to me where the guitar preamp and micpreamp with phantom power so you can use a condenser microphone torecord vocals / acoustic instruments, also it has a switch that passesthe input strait to the output so even it you can't get the USB workingyou can feed the pre-amped guitar/mic to the input of your internalsound card, the midi keyboard also has a standard din output too so thatcan be connected to your sound cards midi in, and the 8 control knobsoutput controller info (very useful for softsynths), I find it veryuseful for general music production, there is model with a largerkeyboard and 2 stereo in/outs called the Ozonic, but this uses firewireand I think that really is a pain to get working with Linux.The list price when I got my Ozone was about £160 but I think you canget one for about £100 now.To sum it up what I needed was 1. guitar preamp,2. XLR mic input, 3 midi keyboard, 4. rotary midi controllers, and the Ozone had all these!I hope that info was of some help Graham http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MAudioOzone-main.htmlhttp://usb-midi-fw.sourceforge.net/ On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 13:18 +0100, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:> On Sunday 21 October 2007 21:03:42 Leslie P. Polzer wrote:> > > Don't do that. You want a box with an instrument input and a line> > > output. I second Dave's suggestion for an M-Audio AudioBuddy. I have> > > one and it works great (I've seen them as low as $60US). It's a> > > small, cheap, two-channel mic-pre with instrument (a.k.a. DI) inputs> > > and line outputs (balanced, which should still work fine with the SB).> > >> > > Many single-channel mic pres also have instrument/DI inputs, like> > > those ART tube units (as low as $30US).> > >> > > A regular DI with output a low impedance mic level signal, which would> > > still not give you the output signal you want.> >> > I bought a distortion pedal -- hope it'll do the job.> > I use a homebrew fuzzbox to adapt instrument levels to line levels. I can set > it clean with a lot of gain, and get fairly good quality from it. Of course, > giving it *lots* of gain and going all crunchy and distorted tends to work > well for me too...> > Gordon> _______________________________________________> Linux-audio-user mailing list> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________Linux-audio-user mailing listLinux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
