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mrjwalsh

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Registered: 2007-01-08

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setting up multiple sound cards in linux, recording music

Hi all,
I thought games were the only thing tying me to windows still but it seems that the audio apps are too.
I have a M-Audio Audiophile 2496 aswell as onboard sound that doesn't have ALSA drivers, I would like ALL of my sound output to come out of the onboard audio and ALL of the input through the M-Audio card, I thought it's be simple but it doesn't seem so, can I do it in jack?

Also I feel like I'm in the deepend with this one, I can record and edit tracks on programs in Linux but the gain on the recordings is insane; I'm just not coming to terms with the different sound daemons, multiple mixers and endless config settings; are there any good resources for initial pro audio set up in linux?

Thanks in advance Arch audio gurus

senjin

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Registered: 2006-09-15

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Re: setting up multiple sound cards in linux, recording music

You can reduce gain in alsamixer, but I haven't ever had problems with gain set to maximum (I have 2496 too).

And why you want to use onboard card's outputs instead of m-audio 24bit/96kHz?

Dieter@be

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Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: setting up multiple sound cards in linux, recording music

are you sure there are no alsa drivers for the onboard card??
If there are, you could use qjacktl to assign all ins and outs as you wish.

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Pajaro

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Registered: 2004-04-21

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Re: setting up multiple sound cards in linux, recording music

proaudio repo:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=30547

A comment: my brother switched to linux because of ardour. He gets 2ms latencies and he says that linux simply works and sounds better.

Problems he had:
ardour crash after 5 hours recording.
One project file disappeared once.

BTW, He is using kubuntu