Thanks, Darren. I think that pretty much clears it up. I'm going with Echo Layla3G On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Darren Landrum <darren.landrum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Brad Fuller wrote: >> >> wow, no one has an E-MU 1820? I'm surprised. Maybe I should check the >> -dev group. >> It's between an E-MU 1820 and a Layla3G. Both seem to be about equal in >> caps. > > Well, I have an Emu 1212M, which I guess is the closest you're going to get. > They use the same driver, though, as far as I know, so I might be able to > answer your questions. > > In general, how does the 1212M play with ALSA? It does well enough if all > you need is the audio ins and outs. As far as I know, the outputs are still > limited to 16 bits (the inputs can run at 24 bit) because the driver is not > finished yet. I've also been unable to get MIDI in working (in Ubuntu Studio > 64 Hardy Heron), even though I can see the MIDI in ports from kjackctl. I > need to flip back over to Windows and test MIDI there (where it was working > at one time) to make sure it's not a hardware issue. > > I don't know if the guy working on the driver still is, or what progress he > has made since I last checked up on it. > > Another issue I run into is the lack of support in the driver for > automatically resampling output (I run the clock at 44.1khz). I have to make > sure the audio software I use is able to support its own output resampling. > This is less big of a deal, as I plan to do all of my production at 44.1, > but I do have the odd mp3 encoded at 48khz for whatever odd reason. Aqualung > has solved this for me, though. > > If you have any more specific questions, feel free to fire them off at me, > and I'll do the best I can to answer them. > > Regards, > Darren Landrum > > -- Brad Fuller www.bradfuller.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
