4D-NXs (was Re: Sync Issues)

[Billy Biggs <vektor@div8.net>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:

> >  Drivers had better be forthcomming.  Yes, I'm talking about cards like
> >those, such as the Event Layla and Darla, etc.  Without them, it makes
> >Linux pretty useless as a multitrack platform...
> 
> the manufacturers of such cards don't have much of an interest in
> Linux. i did a little work at AES to try to change that, but its going
> to be a long uphill battle.

  Well, if there were a more powerful audio API, and applications that
took advantage of it, that would all change pretty quick...

> >  Well, at least pretty annoying.  Personally, I have two AudioPCI cards
> >and a dedicated MPU-401 card for MIDI.  Each of the AudioPCI cards have
> >two dsps, giving me four /dev/dsp devices.
> 
> if you had 2 4D-NX's, you'd have 64 openable (mono) channels for
> playback (*)...  is that enough for you ? :))) total cost $78+postage,
> plus you'd have two excellent MIDI interfaces as well.
> (*) but just 4 mono channels for recording, sigh.

  4D-NX seems to be just the chipset.  Which card are you referring to
here?  And, how does it get so many seperate openable channels?

  More importantly, would I be able to sync channels on the same sound
card?

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Billy Biggs                         vektor@div8.net
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