Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card

I ended up getting a motu 24ao http://www.motu.com/products/avb/24ai-24ao/video.html thats 24 outs with a maximum of 48 if I connect my ADAT units. The food thing is they are expandable with their new AVB ethernet connection which I believe can give you up to 256 outs. A steal at £750 .. On

Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card

Hi, I have the M-audio Profire Lightbridge for years now and I am quite happy. Please keep in mind that is not USB, but Firewire 400 instead. Also is about to become obsolete as they stopped development for that unfortunately. The new OSX won't have drivers for that and I'm pretty sure Win as w

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Hi, I searched a lot and the M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge is not too bad ! All the best AF 2014-03-23 10:49 GMT+01:00 Alessandro Fogar : > Hi all, > > can you please suggest me an inexpensive USB multichannel sound card (8ch) > to use in an installation ? > > If possible with drivers for Linux

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Sent: den 16 april 2014 18:18 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card For low cost multi-channel players with decoding and eq, it might be worth investigating the ADAU1702 which is a complete single-chip audio system with a 28-/56-bit

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Sandholm > Stockholm > -- > > http://www.xmos.com/en/startkit#D1WEaWZP > > > http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=aa2ced904ae477361c0eabd3c51c1908&topic=96073.20 > > > > -Original Message- > From: Sursound [mailto:sursound

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.com/smfforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=aa2ced904ae477361c0eabd3c51c1908&topic=96073.20 -Original Message- From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Sampo Syreeni Sent: den 14 april 2014 22:21 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB mult

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Sure - its a great idea to make your own I agree. I simply dont have time at the moment as I am busy with other projects - but I would certainly invest in a system made by someone here if its timing was solid. For me at the moment the cheapest way of doing 32 channels or more is with RME Raydats d

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On 15/04/2014 6:21 AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: Worth a look because I'm not *too* well educated about the economics either, but my hunch is, that'd prove costly overkill. 1-4 channel high quality converters are already available as bulk product, at very low cost (to the tune of well under a buck per

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On 2014-04-13, Ross Bencina wrote: I am ignorant of the economics, but perhaps it is worth considering an FPGA-based implementation: "An FPGA-based Re-configurable 24-bit 96kHz Sigma-Delta Audio DAC" Ray C.C. Cheung et al. Worth a look because I'm not *too* well educated about the economics

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Hi Sampo, On 13/04/2014 8:02 AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: Thus, why *not* make one of our own? It's not rocket surgery after all. Not today. And there are even a few academics on-list with ties to electrical engineering departments, so that the design cost of a converter package suitable for audio r

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On 2014-04-12, Augustine Leudar wrote: the use I have in mind is not really anything to do with ambisonics - rather I just want a reasonbly good quality 8 channel soundcard to run an eight channel sound installation on . Yeah, but still, even if not every sound encoding system requires perfe

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Hi Sampo - the use I have in mind is not really anything to do with ambisonics - rather I just want a reasonbly good quality 8 channel soundcard to run an eight channel sound installation on . At the moment I am using motu ultralites in a couple of permanent sound installations but it seems like ov

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o:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Marc Lavallée Sent: den 6 april 2014 15:37 To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card Sun, 6 Apr 2014 06:23:37 +0100, Dave Malham wrote : > Lets not worry too much about silicon - it's ridicu

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Sun, 6 Apr 2014 06:23:37 +0100, Dave Malham wrote : > Lets not worry too much about silicon - it's ridiculously cheap these > days, so long as you are not going for the top end. If we are to use > cheap, ready built, USB units and not our own purpose built kit (and > that's not unthinkable, this

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Lets not worry too much about silicon - it's ridiculously cheap these days, so long as you are not going for the top end. If we are to use cheap, ready built, USB units and not our own purpose built kit (and that's not unthinkable, this is the age of the maker, right?) I think it all hinges on two

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On 2014-04-06, Augustine Leudar wrote: Can you do this with any 7.1 usb card ? Wich did you use ? Well now you opened a can of worms even on my behalf. What really is the minimal, asymptotic per-channel cost of well-synchronized multichannel audio D/A? Let's say, presuming you can only draw

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Hi Augustine. I use two identical "ST-Lab USB SoundBox" modules, but it should work with any sound card/module (compatible with ALSA). Here's a small howto: The sound chip on my laptop is ALSA device "hw:0", and the 2 USB sound modules are "hw:1" and "hw:2". The jackd server is usually started

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ettingsmeier) 10. Re: Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card > > > (Bo-Erik Sandholm) 11. Re: Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card > > > (Michael Chapman) > > > > > > From: Augustine Leudar > > > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel soun

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Re: Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card (J?rn > > Nettingsmeier) 10. Re: Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card > > (Bo-Erik Sandholm) 11. Re: Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card > > (Michael Chapman) > > > > From: Augustine Leudar > > Subject: Re: [Sur

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> On 03/31/2014 09:14 AM, Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: >> Don't ignore the Chinese :-) >> >> http://www.dx.com/p/usb-2-0-7-1ch-optical-sound-card-audio-adapter-white-orange-172008#.UzkSO4XtX5w >> 20 usd inc postage to EU >> http://www.aliexpress.com/item/USB-2-0-CH-3D-7-1-Audio-8-Channel-Sound-Card-Exte

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still cheaper than buying it from UK :-) Bo-Erik in Sweden. -Original Message- From: Sursound [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Jörn Nettingsmeier Sent: den 31 mars 2014 09:24 To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card On 03

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On 03/31/2014 09:14 AM, Bo-Erik Sandholm wrote: Don't ignore the Chinese :-) http://www.dx.com/p/usb-2-0-7-1ch-optical-sound-card-audio-adapter-white-orange-172008#.UzkSO4XtX5w 20 usd inc postage to EU http://www.aliexpress.com/item/USB-2-0-CH-3D-7-1-Audio-8-Channel-Sound-Card-External-Sound-Po

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iscussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card no uk suppliers on ebay - all from the States. I eventually found it on some obscure website - but at 3 times the price as US - still cheap though. That ST-Lab "USB Sound Box" looks good though. On 30 March

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no uk suppliers on ebay - all from the States. I eventually found it on some obscure website - but at 3 times the price as US - still cheap though. That ST-Lab "USB Sound Box" looks good though. On 30 March 2014 02:25, Marc Lavallée wrote: > Augustine Leudar a écrit : > > anyone know of a UK/

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There is an even cheaper one (£23.70, Amazon): http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003IMG3L2 Looks like a clone of ST-Lab (etc). Looks all the ones with 4 buttons on top are based in the same hardware. I will likely take a chance on it as I also could also use a cheap USB m/c card, and that is just ab

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Augustine Leudar a écrit : > anyone know of a UK/Ireland supplier of the Sabrant USB-SND8 ? Ebay? Also look for the ST-Lab "USB Sound Box"; it is similar, if not identical. -- Marc ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.

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anyone know of a UK/Ireland supplier of the Sabrant USB-SND8 ? On 29/03/2014, Augustine Leudar wrote: > wow - where has this unit been ! I have been waiting for one of these > to come along - shame I didnt know about it earlier . brilliant tx > > On 23/03/2014, Jan Jacob Hofmann wrote: >> Hi

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wow - where has this unit been ! I have been waiting for one of these to come along - shame I didnt know about it earlier . brilliant tx On 23/03/2014, Jan Jacob Hofmann wrote: > Hi Alessandro, > > if it is an installation (fixed media) you could go for a wavepayer: > > > http://www.memsoluti

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composition | higher order ambisonic music Am 28.03.2014 um 17:00 schrieb sursound-requ...@music.vt.edu: > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:58:00 - (GMT) > From: "Michael Chapman" > To: "Surround Sound discussion group" > Subject: Re: [Sursound] Inex

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Interesting . . . Am I reading the manual correctly that one can daisy-chain these units to play (synch-ed) 16, 24, etc. pieces ??? Anyone done that ? Michael > For those that don't read German, there are English versions of the > manuals > in the manuals section... > > Dave > > > On 23

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For those that don't read German, there are English versions of the manuals in the manuals section... Dave On 23 March 2014 20:35, Jan Jacob Hofmann wrote: > Hi Alessandro, > > if it is an installation (fixed media) you could go for a wavepayer: > > > http://www.memsolution.com/ > > it is

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Hi Alessandro, if it is an installation (fixed media) you could go for a wavepayer: http://www.memsolution.com/ it is a sd-card-player, easy to use and you can use it stand alone, so you do not have to bring your computer necessarily on site. Cheers, Jan Jacob sound |

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Le 2014-03-23 05:49, Alessandro Fogar a écrit : >can you please suggest me an inexpensive USB multichannel sound card (8ch) >to use in an installation ? > >If possible with drivers for Linux, Win, Mac. There's this: The outpu

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I can recommend the very inexpensive Sabrent SND-8, which is $19 at Amazon.   It's not great, but it's certainly adequate! From: Alessandro Fogar To: sursound@music.vt.edu Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 2:49 AM Subject: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB mu

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e channel connectors). they are not > impressive to look at, but they work, especially with ASIO for all. > umashankar > > Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:49:19 +0100 > > From: sfo...@gmail.com > > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > > Subject: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel

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them being three channel connectors). they are not impressive to look at, but they work, especially with ASIO for all. umashankar > Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:49:19 +0100 > From: sfo...@gmail.com > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > Subject: [Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card

[Sursound] Inexpensive USB multichannel sound card

Hi all, can you please suggest me an inexpensive USB multichannel sound card (8ch) to use in an installation ? If possible with drivers for Linux, Win, Mac. Many thanks in advance Best -- Alessandro Fogar http://www.fogar.it -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scru