Good. Now I believe my perspective. Thanks! Peter David Gerard Matthews wrote:
> Hello, > The Hammerfall has a great reputation, but it might be more > cost-effective to go with one of the M-Audio cards if you don't need > 16-24 channels of audio. The biggest selling point of the Hammerfall > cards (besides their legendary low-latency performance) is the massive > number of channels, and the ability to use external converters. > However, if you're not going to be using external D/A's, or a digital > mixer, then you're probably better off going with a card that uses an > external breakout box for the A/D/A, because that offers better > isolation from the CPU than you would get from the Hammerfall's > daughterboards. I personally use an M-Audio Delta 1010 and have been > quite happy with its performance under Linux; other cards from > manufacturers like Terratec which also use the Envy24 chipset should > work well too. All of this, of course, is not meant on a diss on the > Hammerfall cards - they really are great cards, however, if you're > mostly just doing CSound, with a bit of analog tape transfer, it > probably is severe overkill. > HTH, > dgm pma wrote: > >> Hi, Everyone. >> >> As my digital-audio-hardware savvy is wanting, I would much >> appreciate any critique of the following (not very long) purchase >> proposal. >> >> My old sound card, a vintage '91 MTU MicroSound running with Csound >> under MS-Windows, died recently. I am in search of a replacement, >> to run in a newer >> box under Debian Linux. My use of the system use will consist >> mainly of Csound generation to disk (no realtime issues) and the >> CD-burning of selected results. I'll want to hear directly from disk >> too, and record occasionally from analog tape. >> >> My proposed solution is an RME Hammerfall Lite, together with its two >> analog expansion boards, the AEB4-I & AEB4-O. If I understand, the >> main board on its own will format output appropriately for audio-CD, >> but requires the AEB4-I to record from analog sources, and requires >> the AEB4-O to play directly from disk. >> >> Question 1: Do I understand these essentials correctly? (Already >> have also the ALSA-0.9 sources, CD-burner, amplifier and speakers.) >> >> Question 2: Does the RME constitute overkill -- for someone mainly >> wanting sound _quality_ (not whatever new fancy functionalities) in >> his old-fashioned style of use? If a simpler alternate could serve >> me as well, any suggestions? >> >> Thanks in advance for your time. >> Peter >> > > > > >
