Hi,
for Linux, I strongly recommend to use the ALSA sound card drivers
(http://www.alsa-project.org). They work full-duplex, have a very
flexible sequencer architecture, have very low latency, and are free, to
name only the most important goodies. And, BTW, they include an OSS
emulation layer, so they are backwards compatible with older programs.
For soundcards supported by ALSA see
http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/
If you need a good hardware synthesizer, buy a SB Life!. If you want
good audio performance at a very decent price, buy a card with a Trident
4D Wave NX chipset, for example the Hoontech NX. If you have lots of
money, go for a professional card from manufacturers like Midiman or
RME.
Matthias
znmeb@teleport.com wrote:
>
> I am getting ready to put together a PC for general audio processing,
> including saolc, sfront and CSound. My intention is to get the biggest
> hard drive and memory and fastest CPU I can afford, and I am planning to
> run Red Hat Linux as the primary OS, although I may run Windows 2000 as
> well. My question is this: which sound card should I get? Most of the
> manufacturers these days bundle a sound card based on cost to them rather
> than performance to the user. My plan is to have a local computer store
> custom-build the system, mostly because of the CPU and sound card issues.
> So which sound card should I get? And are there any reasons I should avoid
> an AMD processor?
>
> --
>
> znmeb@teleport.com (M. Edward Borasky) http://www.teleport.com/~znmeb
>
> If they named a street after Picabo Street, would it be called Picabo
> Street, Street Street or Picabo Street Street?
-- Matthias Pfisterer <mailto:Matthias.Pfisterer@gmx.de>Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
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