Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:11:17 -0600 From: Jim Ramsay <lists@jimramsay.com> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Soundcard Recommendation Message-ID: <20030414171117.GE59368@holmes.jimramsay.com>
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I'm thinking of doing some home recording with my FreeBSD system, but the onboard CMI soundcard seems to do a poor a/d conversion - it's pretty noisy. Not that I'm surprised - I'm sure it's mainly because it's part of the motherboard / cheap. What I'd like are people's recommendations for sound cards. Here are my requirements: - Reasonably good quality analog -> digital conversion is essential. - PCI interface (USB is available too, but I don't understand USB as well, and don't know how USB compares for soundcards). - Full Duplex, unless the existing soundcard would be good enough for simultaneous playback (it plays my MP3s fine). - MIDI optional, but probably a useful feature (I don't know where MIDI support is in FreeBSD, though). - Preferably affordable, of course. - Well supported in FreeBSD 4.7, though I would not be opposed to upgrading to 5.0 if it was worth it. Thank you for your suggestions! If you've got recommendations for software too, fire away. I'll probably try audacity and ecasound at least. Maybe "SLab" (http://www.slabexchange.org/index.cgi?INDEX) if I can get it working (I used to use than on my Linux box and found it pretty useful / easy). -- Jim Ramsay i.am@jimramsay.com PGP Key ID: 0xBE28F488
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