One of the reocurring issues when you talk to somebody about a linux daw
True, linux doesn't support all audio interfaces, but if you inform yourself a bit you can get a good audio interface that works out of the box.
So, I needed a new audio interface for my laptop P4 daw running on 64 studio.
After a bit reading on the different internet forum it looked like my best choice would be a firewire audio interface.
Here is what I needed :
- Stereo IN from my mixer (for my hardware synths)
- MIC in from the mic pre-amp
- HI-Z in for my bass guitar
- Low CPU usage
- Low latency
And here is what I bought :
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FireWireSolo-main.htmlAfter connecting it to the daw, starting the daw (carefully staring at system messages to see if I saw any errors...), i went into jack control and changed the audio driver to free-bob (linux firewire driver) and choose hw:1.
Jack didn't complain, pfew first releave.
As a first test, I started Hydrogen and let it play one of the demo song, yep it worked out of the box !!!
By twidling a bit with the jack control panel, I got it down to 5,2 msec and 1,9% CPU load.
Another step forward to the perfect linux daw
I love when things just work...
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