[ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour

[Allan Klinbail]

i picked up an M-Audio delta 10/10 for nix...

i don't know the current price outside of aus... but unless you are
laptop based it's worth it 



On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 08:30 +0000, John Emmas wrote:
> Thanks for that Sampo - £156UK is much nearer the mark for me!  It's a
> pity my current Antex card isn't compatible.  Although it's quite an old
> card, it has some good features such as SMPTE timecode in/out as well as
> wordclock & video sync inputs, to support the usual audio and midi ports.
> Can't seem to find Linux drivers for it though, which is really frustrating.
> :-(
> 
> John
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sampo Savolainen" <v2 at iki.fi>
> To: "John Emmas" <johne53 at tiscali.co.uk>
> Cc: "Sciss" <contact at sciss.de>; <ardour-users at lists.ardour.org>
> Sent: 24 January 2007 07:39
> Subject: Re: [ardour-users] A decent sound card for Ardour
> 
> 
> > Quoting John Emmas <johne53 at tiscali.co.uk>:
> >
> >> 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!
> >
> > You can get a Behringer ADA8000 for a mere £156 (dolphinmusic) which will
> > work as both a mic-pre (not a good one, i know) / line input and line
> > output
> > device. This would connect to you 9652 with two adat cables.
> >
> > Just to clear up any misconception: the ADA8000 is both an AD and DA unit.
> > The analog outputs in the rear are not direct analog outputs from the mic
> > preamps. The device is actually two devices in one:
> >
> > 1) mic input / line input -> gain -> ADC -> ADAT OUT
> >
> > .. and
> >
> > 2) ADAT IN -> DAC -> line output
> >
> > And to top it off: I've read that while people generally dislike hate and
> > despise behringer gear and think the quality is bad, there have been some
> > people commenting that the AD/DA sections on the ADA8000 are quite good
> > actually. It uses a well known Alesis chip (if i remember correctly) which
> > does a good job.
> >
> >  Sampo
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