On Sat, March 9, 2013 9:46 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I only want to be able to play at least a stereo track (a temporary mix > of a production with much more tracks) and to record some tracks with > microphones for drums. Perhaps it's needed to use a mixer and to record > a stereo mix, I guess onboard surround devices can't record more than > stereo, especially in duplex mode. The HDA standard (in as much as there is such a thing) is stereo in at 16bits, though some have 20bit. The 20 bits seems to be a waste of time as, in my experience, the s/n on even the line inputs is something like an old cassette recorder. On my desktop it is not even uniform from one channel to the other :P I have my internal audio disabled in bios. I also have an old ensoniq 1370 which is much quieter than any internal audio I have heard. The ART dualUSBpre would be a better bet (or something similar)... it does have the USB problems but it is USB1.1 so bandwidth is low and for recording you may get away with quite a high latency anyway. It is very small to carry and USB powered. (remembering you also mentioned a mixer :) ) Outputs are mostly 24bit though and normally reasonable quality amplification. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
