OT- cheap sound cards

[Ed Kolis]

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

[Fyron]

Creative lost their creative edge a long time ago.

[parabolize]

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.

[Ed Kolis]

Yes, I'm using ALSA; I'm using KDE for my desktop. I found a site telling me that to get software audio mixing I had to add some stuff to my ~/.asoundrc file, but that didn't help very well so I commented it out again... here's the current contents of the file, in case you'd care to look at it:

Code:

---

pcm.intel8x0 {

	type hw

	card 0

}



ctl.intel8x0 {

	type hw

	card 0

}



#pcm.!default {

#type plug

#slave.pcm "swmixer"

#}



#pcm.swmixer {

#type dmix

#ipc_key 1234

#slave {

#pcm "hw:0,0"

#period_time 0

#period_size 1024

#buffer_size 4096

#rate 44100

#}

#}

---

[parabolize]

Did you try OSS? Another asound.conf howto its for ubuntu/gnome but it should give you something to work with.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

See, this is why I like windows. When I want to install a sound card, all I have to do is click 'Add New Hardware'.

[parabolize]

All I had to do with ubuntu was install the sound card.