On Feb 13, 2008 8:44 AM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > On Mon, 28.01.08 20:52, Dewey Smolka (dsmolka at gmail.com) wrote: > > > The main question is: Is this even possible with Pulse? > > Even if you can by jumping through some loops, I am quite sure you > don't want to do this. > > If you need to combine two seperate sound cards into one, then you > need to do adaptive resampling to deal with the deviating > crystals. Now, PA can do that for you. But this is a bit sloppy, and > I would assume that it isn't really suitable for audio production. For what it's worth, I did eventually get jack diplomat to work for me but wasn't very happy with the results. It was able to handle the adaptive resampling, but as you suggest not at a latency or at a reliability level that would allow for high quality multi-track audio. Driving one or the other device by itself was fine, but both working together didn't go so well. It's really that I pulled the trigger on a couple purchases before I truly understood what I needed and how to do it. I still like the Lexicon Omega and will keep it for portable recording. It works great as a 4-channel input device as long as all the mixing and processing is in software. But it isn't really possible to use it if hardware-based mixing is required. I ended up buying an M-Audio Delta 1010lt, which can do 8x8 duplex analog plus MIDI plus SPDIF and is pure plug-and-play in Ubuntu Studio. Best $200 I've ever spent. Thanks for the input.
