On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 02:09:46PM +1100, Leigh Dyer wrote: > On 07/03/11 13:59, Josh Lawrence wrote: > >hey everyone, > > > >my friend and I are starting a recording project that will require > >multiple mic inputs. my soundcard has only two xlr inputs, and I need > >at least 8. I could buy a cheap mixer and and sum everything up, but > >I'd like to have access to all of the channels in ardour if possible. > >does anyone have any recommendations for "pro-sumer" soundcards that > >have at minimum 8 xlr inputs? > > I'm very happy with my Focusrite Saffire PRO40 -- it's a Firewire Just curious. I thought the saffires needed custom software to handle the routing. How does that work under linux? > interface with 8 analogue ins and 10 analogue outs. Each of those > inputs is an XLR/jack combo, and each has a preamp with phantom > power, so hooking up eight mics is a no-brainer. The first two > inputs can also be switched to a high-impedance mode for plugging in > guitars directly. If you need more ports later, it has an ADAT port > that you can hook one of those Behringer units up to. > > Performance on it is great -- I'm not the best judge, but the > preamps sound very clean and noise-free to me. On a realtime kernel > I can run it with 4ms latency in JACK with no problems, but I prefer > to run it at 8ms on a stock kernel instead. > > To get it working under Linux, you need FFADO SVN (Ubuntu Maverick > actually ships with a recent enough SVN version for it to work, and > I think Debian Squeeze might, too), and you need to use the old > Firewire stack; FFADO does work with the new stack, but there's a > bug in there somewhere that causes audio output to fail on > DICE-based devices like the PRO40 when using FFADO on the new stack. > > You'll also need a Firewire controller if you don't have one; I was > lucky enough to have a TI-chipset controller on my motherboard, but > it hopefully won't be hard to track down a PCI card with a TI > chipset. > > Thanks > Leigh > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > -- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
