Hallo Marcus :) > Hy Ralf, > > No problem, excuse me, I've lost control, it takes me a lot of time to > read your mails, even if I don't give you many help.
Never mind! There's nothing you have to excuse for. I can really lose control and my locution than will make seamen blush. Such a situation is something to excuse for. You just wrote your opinion and didn't touch one of my Achilles' heels. > In fact, the only thing I can say to really help is: > > I'm working on music with linux since 6 years now. I've even recorded > a CD entierely with linux tools. > If you want to get ride of hardware stuff, and be more on artistic or > professional side, I'd say that you have to "pay the price": > > 1) A good CPU I hope a AMD dual core, 2.1 GHz is a good CPU. > 2) A good motherboard That seems to be my problem. > 3) 2 good hard drives I think my HDD, a Samsung SATA II should be good enough, even the Maxtor IDE I've got. > 4) A _*really*_ good sound card I wish to have one, but that also shouldn't be a problem. I've got an Envy24-based TerraTec EWX 24/96. It should be good enough to have a pro-audio-stable DAW. So I should be able to pre-produce at home. The final outcome must not have professional studio quality, it should have consumer CD quality and working with MIDI should be professional. > _My system is:_* *(this is what I found 2 years ago) > > 1) AMD athlon fx 3000+ AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 2.1GHz, AM2 Data seems to be better, than the Data of your CPU > 2) Gigabyte motherboard socket 939 (second hand 50€) Mainboard AM2, ASUS M2A-VM/HDMI (new 46,13445€ * 1,19 betterment tax) > 3) 2 scsi drives with a tekram PCI controller (one drive for the OS > and the other for the datas) SATA-II 320GB Samsung HD321KJ and a Maxtor ATA SATA II seems to be the fastest on the market. My 1920MB (2 * 1024 - 128MB frame buffer) PC6400 800MHz RAM, compatible to 667MHz and 533MHz, AENEON by Qimonda should also be good enough for a DAW. > 4) RME hdsp 9652 Audio: TerraTec EWX 24/98 MIDI: Swissonic USB device Your soundcard seems to be the better one, but I think that an Envy24-based sound card should be good enough to work and I don't think I've any crashes because of the sound card, especially MIDI jitter shouldn't have to do with that sound card. I might take a look at the interrupts, maybe thinks will crash because USB has an interrupt that also is used by something else. > With a setup like this, you can do almost anything you want (exept the > coffee !) With my 32-bit ASRock I could do everything when using Windows, but I won't use Windows, so I bought the hardware above, that shouldn't be. > I would recommand RME cards, because they are really _*PRO*_ cards, > and the support under linux is really _*PRO*_. > Of course, you can go on with a Terratec card, but keep in mind that > if you hold on with Linux and audio, you'll probably change your > soundcard. > > Few years behind, I always wanted to buy things to make music, but the > cheapest as possible. When I think about it today, i'd say that I did > loose money and time ! The TerraTec has consumer DAT quality, when running with Windows, and low latency too. So it's not a professional sound card, but it shouldn't be the cause for the problems I've got. Cheers, Ralf
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