[ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour

[John Emmas]

>
> Given the development work that you plan to do with ardour (session
> interchange) obviously the sound hardware doesn't matter much.
>
Well, that's true as long as I can get my code to work first time..!!
But seriously, half the problem I'm having at the moment is that I'm aiming
at an unknown target.  I enjoy reading the posts on the user group & dev
group - but if the truth be told, I haven't got the foggiest idea what
anyone is talking about!!

I'm hoping that once I get to the stage where I can compile Ardour and
launch a working copy, it'll all start to make a bit more sense!

Cheers,


John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Chappell" <jesse at essej.net>
To: "John Emmas" <johne53 at tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: <ardour-users at lists.ardour.org>
Sent: 18 December 2006 14:59
Subject: Re: [ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour


> On 12/18/06, John Emmas <johne53 at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I guess that most people are just using Ardour with the standard on-board
>> sound hardware (supplied with their motherboards).  But are there any
>> 'high
>> end' cards I should be looking at?  For example, multi-channel sound
>> cards -
>> or cards that support Dolby 5.1 / 7.1 etc?  In theory, 5.1 is supported
>> by
>> my motherboard but I've never figured out where the outputs are..!!
>> Thanks.
>
> Given the development work that you plan to do with ardour (session
> interchange) obviously the sound hardware doesn't matter much.  But if
> you want to start using it for real recording, take a look at the
> m-audio cards as the others suggested, or the more expensive but
> better specified RME HDSP line.
>
> jlc