From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Billy Biggs Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:40:13 +0000 Subject: 4D-NXs (was Re: Sync Issues) Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org 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? -- Billy Biggs vektor@div8.net http://www.div8.net/billy wbiggs@uwaterloo.ca