From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 03:39:24 +0000 Subject: Re: Sound Card for quality recording Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Craig Wright (spiral@eece.unm.edu) said: > Can anyone recommend a sound card that does an exceptional job at > recording? I've considered the turtle beach pinacle, but of course > that would require me to not use linux which is not an option. > > Is the Sound Blaster Live an acceptable alternative or is there some other > high end card out there that linux supports? I'd be really interested to > know what anyone thinks about this. Actually, there are some TB Pinnacle drivers (included in Linux 2.2, see also http://www.rpi.edu/~veliaa/pinlinux.html), while there are *not* currently drivers for the SB Live. (Creative has hired someone to write them, but at last check they weren't planning on open-sourcing them, and there wasn't any word on when they would be finished.) Bill