From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jul 28 19:44:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA27728 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pendor.McKusick.COM (root@pendor.bayarea.net [205.219.85.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA27716 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from benco@localhost) by pendor.McKusick.COM (8.8.5/8.6.9) id TAA21983 for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:44:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Cottrell Message-Id: <199707290244.TAA21983@pendor.McKusick.COM> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Question on sampling and CD writers Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm thinking of setting myself up to burn audio CDs, and I need some advice on what hardware will work with FreeBSD. I'd much appreciate any comments or suggestions! There are two things I'm thinking about buying right now. One is a CD burner; I know I want to get one of those. The other is another sound card, because I can't seem to get my GUS MAX to record at 16 bits; but I'm still debating whether I actually want to take the plunge on that. My priorities for the CD burner are: it needs to be able to do audio tracks, and it needs to be well-supported, but I don't care about speed. I was thinking of the JVC 2Xwrite/4Xread SCSI-2 burner; what are people's opinions on that? Can it write audio tracks? My priorities for the sound card are: Low noise, high quality for recording, don't care about playing or MIDI. I also don't have DOS installed, so it needs to work completely under FreeBSD. Is anything from Gravis generally good? How about Turtle Beach? Yamaha? Or am I just better off trying harder to get my GUS MAX working? Any kind of feedback is *much* appreciated :-) Thanks a lot! ~Ben