Sam, Shintaro,
On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 09:59 PM, Sam Ferguson wrote:
Has anyone got a good working 8in 8out system out there? I get the impression that only the rme boxes are good with PD.
I have been using my HDSP with PD for a while now, and I am fairly happy with it [finally!]. I have a PCI card for the desktop [running Red Hat 9/Planet CCRMA] and a PCMCIA card for the laptop [running Gentoo]. Both can use the Multiface [but not @ same time!]
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 22:59:59 +0100, Shintaro Miyazaki
I am looking for a resonable audiointerface with 8 in/outs. There is the Motu 828mkII or RME Hammerfall Multiface or the Digi 002 Rack. Which one would you recommend (with PD?)?
The Hammerfall is really quite nice, and I run it with PD all the time, for HD recording, live sets and installation prototyping. Probably under OSX you will have less initial difficulties than with Linux [dunno, tho, cause I haven't actually tried it!].
On another note, Core-Sound has a Flash card-based multichannel soundcard [designed for PDAs] which I was considering for my backup laptop [a Pismo Powerbook running Gentoo]. You could use a Flash-to-PCMCIA adaptor and whatever portable AD/DA converter you like, and it could be *maybe* a bit less than a HDSP. The PDAudio-CF itself is $499.
http://www.core-sound.com/HighResRecorderNews.html
You will have to research a complete AD/DA converter yourself... the package which Core-Sound offers has a AD converter only. Could be totally OT for your needs, but I also dream of having a PDA for field recording someday...
Good luck, D.