moin Marco,
in my desktop i've got an m-audio delta 1010 lt (used from e-bay), which worked "out of the box" (8 unbalanced analalog i/o and midi from a "cat o' 9 tails" which plugs directly into the card). its big brother (delta 1010, no "lt" suffix) has a nice breakout box (balanced) and uses the same chipset ("envy24", alsa module snd-ice1712). iirc, the terratec phase88 uses the same chipset with an unbalanced breakout box.
latency was ok out of the box (don't remember the numbers right now, sorry), but i had to do some os-level tweaking to get things working to my satisfaction (realtime kernel, irq priorities, pci settings, etc - all scripted now and available on request). also, i had to comment out a few lines in the envy24control sources (dedicated mixer gui for the card) in order to stop my console from filling up with annoying warnings -- really nothing more than an annoyance; i can send you a patch if you have the same problem... if you can afford one, the rme cards are likely to be much better, but my budget didn't stretch quite that far ;-)
marmosets, Bryan
On 2010-04-12 14:11:41, Marco Donnarumma devel@thesaddj.com appears to have written:
Hi all, I know it's OT, but I would like to get an advice from Linux Pd users. I'm about to buy a soundcard with up to 8 analog I/O for max 500euro/pounds and want it to be compatible with Linux (I mean, I would like something working ""out-of-the-box""). I've been advised about the Terratec Phase 88 Rack.. Any other suggestion?