Re: Sound card recommendations

From: John Lazzaro (lazzaro@CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 14:47:20 EDT


> My question is this: which sound card should I get?

I suggest the SB PCI 128 card as a low-endish card for
sfront under Linux, mostly because

-- It's what I own, so its the best-tested card
-- The Linux es1370.c driver is pretty stable by now,
   whereas I'm not sure the SB Live driver is (haven't
   been tracking it closely, though)
-- It has the minimal set of features needed for all
   the things sfront does -- simulaneous audio input and
   output, and low-latency MIDI input when accessed via
   /dev/midi OSS/free

That said, sfront only accesses audio cards through the
OSS/Free interface, and doesn't use the less portable
features like mmap() direct access to the buffer, so
in theory any card with a good driver that has the
right features should be OK.

                                                --jl

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