On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 10:32 -0800, Len Ovens wrote: > 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. Thank you :) I disable onboard audio too, but I don't have the money for an USB device yet. Analog mixers are still common here ;). Regarding to the spin down issue I'm running [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /usr/local/sbin/no-spind #!/bin/sh # /usr/local/sbin/no-spind count=0 echo 0 >/run/media/rocketmouse/u1.1tmp/.no-spind.counter while lsusb -d 1058: >/dev/null; do sleep 300; ((count++)) echo $count >/run/media/rocketmouse/u1.1tmp/.no-spind.counter done exit at the moment. This is just a makeshift, since I need to manually mount the partition and I need to start the scrip manually, each time USB was disconnected. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
