On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would question that. I am a real musician. I have hardware synths which I > use. I need to record the output of those > into a computer. What is so dj-ish about it? louigi - this is really just a question about cabling (once you get beyond your mono-mic-only laptop dilemma). i too have h/w synths, and their outputs are delivered on 1/4" TRS sockets, 1 per channel. so, when connecting this kind of equipment, the most obvious thing is to have a pair of 1/4" -> 1/4" *mono* cables and plug one end into the synth and the other into a 1/4" socket of an audio interface. it sounds as if your experience with other equipment is leading you to favor the idea of a cable with 2 1/4" *mono* jacks at one end, and 1 *stereo* jack at the other. there certainly are consumer sound cards that use stereo mini-jacks for input, so if you used one of them, this is the kind of cable you'd use. a lot of DJ equipment expects to receive/deliver stereo via such jacks too (even more true as portable digital music players have become the core playback device for many DJs) hence the suggestion above. but most equipment aimed at musicians doesn't use stereo jacks, just pairs of mono ones. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
