[ubuntu-studio-devel] Elementary OS

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:51:29 +0200, ttoine wrote:
>work with a studio who records 16 adat tracks at a time with Ardour or
>Mixbus, on Ubuntu Studio, without any issue, and they love it for the
>overall stability. They even dropped Mac OS X from the workflow. They
>own a 9652 if my memory is good.

Those are very old PCI cards, my dealer sold for peanuts:

http://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/hdsp_9652.php
http://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/hdsp_9632.php

The recommendation from the Linux audio community a few years ago was to
get this PCIe card, since PCI was dropped and PCIe should be the future:

http://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/hdspe_aio.php

This card was very expensive and actually the Linux support for this
card didn't change in the last years. It might be the driver or
some settings, but only two ADAT channels work.

Are all new audio USB audio devices Class Compliant USB devices? Do
they provide jitter free MIDI? Do they provide professional grade
audio? It doesn't matter for me, since I anyway can't buy and buy new
hardware again and again. Even if I would have the money to do so, I
dislike the throwaway society approach.