On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM, vasja <vasja.progar@gmail.com> wrote:

hey,

i'm replying to your post on pd/list.
I have an ESI U24XL card, works perfect in Ubuntu Hardy and Ubuntu Hardy studio. Has only 2 ins and 2 outs though.
now i'm looking for a multichannel cards; particulary interesting to me seem:

ESI ESU 1808
EDIROL UA-101
TASCAM US-1641

don't know about tascam, but esi and edirol ussualy have a quite nice support in our beloved os.
i'll probably end up buying the low-price (350-400 eur in europe) 18in8out (hm, guess that should suffice for some time) ESI, so i can let you know if it works ok (can take some time though, i'm not all-that-comfortable with money...).

anyway, if you too come across anything interesting (that is: if you find a nice usb card that also works really nice in linux), please let me know!

best regards,

Vasja Progar
Slovenia

p.s.: my small esi really works fine - playback and recording aok, latency 10ms +/- 2 tested in pd (but as far as i know the usb protocol, it's about the smallest you can get anyway)

oh, and another thing: i owned an m-audio audiophile usb; disasterous! don't try, i'd say...