[ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour

[John Emmas]

I just realised that the RME 9652 has a serious drawback - no analog
outputs..!  I found out that there's an interface unit available but it
costs around 800 UK pounds for just 8 channels!!  Something's veering
me back towards M-Audio!

Thanks for all the advice,

John



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sciss" <contact at sciss.de>
To: "John Emmas" <johne53 at tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "Matthew Hiscock" <audio at bootlegsounds.com>;
<ardour-users at lists.ardour.org>
Sent: 23 January 2007 19:22
Subject: Re: [ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour


> i'm running a machine with ubuntu 6 and rme 9652 since a few days.  the
> drivers are part of alsa, the hammerfall mixer and setup dialog  are in
> the alsa-tools-gui package. i haven't tested ardour yet, but  it works
> with supercollider -> jack, so it should be fine.
>
> ciao, -sciss-
>
> Am 23.01.2007 um 19:46 schrieb John Emmas:
>
>>> On 3-Jan-07, at 17:31 AM, Matthew Hiscock wrote:
>>>
>>> I moved from a M-Audio Delta 66 to an RME 9632 and immediately
>>> noticed a whole world of treble that I'd been missing.
>>>
>> Matthew - can I ask you a quick question please?  Are you runnung  Ardour
>> under Mac or Linux?  The reason I ask is that I've been offered an  RME
>> 9652
>> for sale (slightly different model) but I've just realised from the  RME
>> website that it only supplies drivers for Windows & Mac.  I just
>> wondered
>> how you got your card to run with Linux (assuming that Linux is  your
>> OS).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>> On 3-Jan-07, at 17:31 AM, Matthew Hiscock wrote:
>>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Matthew Hiscock" <audio at bootlegsounds.com>
>> To: <ardour-users at lists.ardour.org>
>> Sent: 03 January 2007 17:31
>> Subject: Re: [ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour
>>
>>
>>> I moved from a M-Audio Delta 66 to an RME 9632 and immediately
>>> noticed a whole world of treble that I'd been missing.
>>>
>>> Also, because the card handles (most? all? a part of?) the audio
>>> engine, the computer (at that time, a G4) was a touch more stable,
>>> and much more responsive with big projects in Cubase. I'm sure the
>>> same thing would apply to Ardour, though I don't have the 66 now to
>>> do the comparison.
>>>
>>> Everything about the card just seems professional. Even to the point
>>> of the ugly-but-super-functional-and-stable mixing software.
>>>
>>> I had to juggle around my RME and UAD-1 cards in terms of which slot
>>> they are in to get them to work optimally on my G5 but now everything
>>> pretty much rock solid (knock on wood).
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>> On 3-Jan-07, at 10:35 AM, Christopher Boggs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah the RME stuff is not cheap at all, but it's high quality...
>>>>
>>>> Just a note, I don't own one, but was warned not to expect much
>>>> quality out
>>>> of the preamps (XLR mic inputs) on the 1010LT...I think it was
>>>> someone on
>>>> this very same list that mentioned that when I was researching
>>>> which card to
>>>> buy.  I'm still trying to get my hands on a used 1010....
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ardour-users-bounces at lists.ardour.org
>>>> [mailto:ardour-users-bounces at lists.ardour.org] On Behalf Of John  Emmas
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:15 AM
>>>> To: paul at linuxaudiosystems.com; Steven Chamberlain
>>>> Cc: ardour-users at lists.ardour.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> RME HDSP series cards have hdspmixer which offers the same general
>>>>> h/w specific control, except for 18-26 channels. its a slicker
>>>>> tool, too.
>>>>>
>>>> I'm glad you mentioned RME Paul - I'd never even heard of them!   They
>>>> seem to be making excellent cards from what I can see on their web
>>>> site - but they're not cheap...! ;-)
>>>>
>>>> John
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