OT- cheap sound cards

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Ed Kolis said:
Heh... actually it's ALSA, on Debian Linux
Cheap as in basically the cheapest thing I can find that's supported by ALSA and also has a MIDI in port, though if I could find something not too expensive that also had wavetable synth that would be great...
What's so bad about Creative? Didn't they basically invent sound cards?
Hmm, a bit of poking around on Micro Center for a Turtle Beach card turns this up as their low-end model:
http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0169799
It even has wavetable! Now to see if it's supported by ALSA... hmm, www.alsa-project.org seems to be one of those sites which brings down my net connection when I visit it

ALSA as in Advanced Linux Sound Architecture? ALSA is often misconfigured resulting in bad sound but ALSA should not have problems running many sounds at once... You sure your not using ESD? If your using gnome chances are its set to ESD. Set your aps to OSS see if its any better.