another card question...

Hello, again...

Yesterday, I asked for opinions on the SB Live! card. *Lots* of negative feedback on that one, so I'm still looking for a card for my new machine.

Any thoughts on the Turtle Beach cards?

For background information: I use my machine to do multi-track recording under Linux. My recordings are later burned to CD, so I'm in no need of fancy digital outputs on the card or anything. I just need a nice clean input, don't really need MIDI at all, and want the capability to do good full duplex operations. I had been using an AWE64 previously, but didn't like the scratchy quality of the 8-bit playback I got while recording 16-bit input during a mutlitracking session.

TIA,
-Paco

Hi,

I use a TB Fiji with digital in and out, which seems to do pretty well (although there are some quirks). I don't really use it for multitracking; the only mt application I've managed to get to work is SLab, and though I think that's a great piece of software, it's more geared to recording sessions than to the kind of compositional multitracking I want to do (in the manner of ProTools, Cool Edit Pro etc, i.e. with lots of editing over many tracks).

But I have used it for development work with Miller Puckette's PD, and for this it does full duplex at 16bit 44.1k with no problems. The only drawbacks with the card and its Linux drivers I would say are: 1) MIDI input/output seems to work for a while, then gives up; 2) I'd like a mixer application which lets me switch between digi and non-digi input, and also which lets me set the sample rate - I have to use a couple of little self-hashed scripts and programmes to do these things. I suppose I should write a mixer app myself!(oh to have the time).

Hope this helps,
Nick

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