Is an m-audio sufficient for my use? Well, you decide. My use is for speech recognition. I need the best input sound available, with the lowest latency. Both are tremendously important for speech recognition accuracy. (Low latency helps with accuracy as well as speed.) I run Dragon NaturallySpeaking through Wine. Wine does not play well with Pulse, so I disable Pulse. I also need portable hardware that will work with a laptop. Mine is an ASUS. The built-in card is an hda-intel, so I must use something else. Eventually, I want to tweak my computer for the lowest latency possible, and get the best portable USB device, but right now I'm content just to update my Intrepid real-time, and get a decent USB soundcard. Susan -----Original Message----- >From: Jacob Lee <artdent@xxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Oct 23, 2008 7:23 PM >To: Susan Cragin <susancragin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Cc: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Intel-HDA sound issues > >On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Susan Cragin <susancragin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Anyone have any luck with an m-audio transit? > >Yes and no. It works fine and has great sound quality, but there are a >few caveats: >- it needs custom firmware. You need "madfuload", which comes with >many distros (or its homepage is http://usb-midi-fw.sourceforge.net/ >). Getting madfuload to run automatically (i.e. when you plug in the >card) is occasionally challenging. >- the built-in mic preamp doesn't provide much gain. I needed to use >an external preamp. >- one tiny 1/8'' connector for two input channels; you'll need >adapters to turn that into two 1/4'' (unbalanced) line ins, and I >occasionally get loud static by accidentally jostling the adapter. > >Last: even at mediocre latency settings (e.g. -n 3 -p 512), and having >adjusted the IRQ priorities and so forth, I get occasional xruns. >However, I think this is a problem with my laptop and not with the >sound card, for two reasons: >- I had no better luck with another usb sound card >- I see xruns when the lcd tries to dim itself or when I go into the >power savings dialog, leading me to suspect the video card. >So right now I'm inclined to blame the video card hogging the bus or >something like that, though I honestly have no clue. But it's probably >not the fault of the Transit. > >In sum, it's a decent card for the price, if it's sufficient for your uses. > >-- >Jacob Lee >artdent@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
