Hi all,
I've been looking for an inexpensive way to start playing around with the HOA library http://www.mshparisnord.fr/hoalibrary/en/ from within puredata. But I've had trouble finding an audio interface with lots of analog outputs (16 or more) that doesn't break the bank. The most promising candidate I've found is maybe the Focusrite 18i20 http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Scarlett18i20, but even that seems like overkill: I don't need inputs, or pre-amps, or MIDI or ADAT, just output. Anyone have any suggestions for a bare-bones, high-channel count DAC? Preferably with USB or PCI interface, preferably Linux compatible?
Thanks in advance,
Chris Chronopoulos
You can probably find some m-audio Delta series soundcards for cheap, and combine several of them. I've used delta 44, and 1010LT, worked excellent on Linux. I also had good experience with some EchoAudio interfaces (Echo Layla 3G and Echo Layla 24). gr, Tim
2015-02-12 22:18 GMT+01:00 Chris Chronopoulos chronopoulos.chris@gmail.com :
Hi all,
I've been looking for an inexpensive way to start playing around with the HOA library http://www.mshparisnord.fr/hoalibrary/en/ from within puredata. But I've had trouble finding an audio interface with lots of analog outputs (16 or more) that doesn't break the bank. The most promising candidate I've found is maybe the Focusrite 18i20 http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Scarlett18i20, but even that seems like overkill: I don't need inputs, or pre-amps, or MIDI or ADAT, just output. Anyone have any suggestions for a bare-bones, high-channel count DAC? Preferably with USB or PCI interface, preferably Linux compatible?
Thanks in advance,
Chris Chronopoulos
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Am 01. März 2015 14:44:13 MEZ, schrieb tim vets timvets@gmail.com:
You can probably find some m-audio Delta series soundcards for cheap, and combine several of them.
The problem with that approach in general is that you have no way of synching the cards. Since each has their own quartz and all have slightly different speeds, you will end up with dropped samples sooner or later, unless you do a resampling (fons adriansen has written a nice resampler for that kind of things on linux).
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With the Delata1010s you can sync one to the other using either the word clock or the SPDIF.
Martin
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:31 AM, IOhannes zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
Am 01. März 2015 14:44:13 MEZ, schrieb tim vets timvets@gmail.com:
You can probably find some m-audio Delta series soundcards for cheap, and combine several of them.
The problem with that approach in general is that you have no way of synching the cards. Since each has their own quartz and all have slightly different speeds, you will end up with dropped samples sooner or later, unless you do a resampling (fons adriansen has written a nice resampler for that kind of things on linux).
mfg.ugd.fhj IOhannes
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