Hi Peter, 2015-01-30 12:08 GMT+01:00 Peter O'Doherty <kevinpeterodoherty@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > My laptop (running ubuntu) has the following (audio) specs. I know it's > probably subjective, but is this considered "good enough" for pro audio work > or should I invest in an external sound card? (Or for that matter a better > laptop?!) And if so, which soundcard is recommended? If you are going to record audio, yes, definitely get a better sound card. If you are going to play along you need a soundcard that can provide low latency audio also. I use old firewire cards, e.g. FA-66, which works pretty good. Also recently tried a really old DMX6fire usb device, seems to work OK too, apart from the horrible setup with loading firmware etc. I think most dedicated sound cards are a step up and the more you pay the more confident you can be that they will satisfy your needs. Of course making sure it's supported in Linux. - If you are only going to create music digitally, software synths, samples, etc. Then you might as well try what you have if it's good enough. Regards, Robert > > Thanks a lot, > Peter > > Memory: 3.8 GiB > Processor: Intel® Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz × 2 > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio > Controller (rev 03) > Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff66 > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 > Memory at d6700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel > > 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port > 1 (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) > > _______________________________________________ > 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
