[Ardour-Users] building a new machine for Ardour

Wed Dec 10 04:36:11 PST 2008

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 03:10:55PM +0900, sonofzev at iinet.net.au wrote:
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> I don't think any boards are immune from the slot usage issues.... <BR>
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> unfortunately the good old PCI slot is in decline .. but there isn't much by way of PCI-e soundcards at the high end part of the market (except for MOTU which has all but declared war on the linux user, so I don't think that is any option... ).... and firewire support is very limited ....... so I guess looking for PCI slots is important... <BR>

The RME HDSPe MADI cards are PCI-e and very well supported in Linux. Last
time I checked, support for the HDSPe RayDAT was about to be added too.

John