[clug-talk] High Quality External USB Sound Card?

[Peter Pankonin]

On 1/13/09, Mark Carlson <carlsonmark at gmail.com> wrote:

> First, what do you mean by "High Quality" ?

Yeah...I guess I'm not really sure. At this point relatively quiet
output is my greatest need.


> Second, what are your
> needs for input/output/sampling rates?

Right now I'm not doing any recording other than midi events into
Rosegarden, and a bit of drum loop creation with Hydrogen. I suppose
that could change in the future, but right now a good, clean low
latency output is all I need.



> I use the HeadRoom Total BitHead which is a "High Quality External USB
> Sound Card" but it has no inputs.

Thanks...that would probably suit my needs. I'll check into it.


> What likely has
> happened is that your system sees two sound cards now and doesn't know
> what to do with them until you tell it!

Yeah, I'm sure you're right...I just don't know how to tell it. I did
find a screen dump of someone's jack settings with the FT-USB and see
the "input device" and "output device" settings, but for some reason I
don't think I could access those settings when I tried the FT in the
store. I'll have to go back and try it again.


> If you are going to be doing much work with audio on Linux, I would
> suggest getting familiar with a few things, Jack being one of them:
> http://linux-sound.org/knowing-jack.html

Awesome...thanks. I've been looking for a decent file on Jack.