Selecting Hardware for Music Production

[Matthew Polashek]

Hi Sean-

I bought a Multimix 8 for a friend of mine and it works fine.  The pre's 
are a little crisp, but it's not terrible.  I can do a test tomorrow and 
see how it is with ubuntu studio and a Dell D510, but I have a strong 
feeling there will be latency issues as there normally are with USB 
audio and Alsa.

I might suggest that you craigslist or ebay all your usb/pci/out stuff 
and get an RME pci with the resulting cash.  Keep the 1622.

Matt

Sean Edwards wrote:
> zZounds has an Alesis MultiMix 8 USB mixer new for $159US, and factory re-sealed for $135US.
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> http://www.zzounds.com/item--ALEMULTIMIX8USB
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> However, I do not know if this device works with Linux/Alsa.
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> In addition to my multiple PCI cards and USB interfaces, I have an Alesis 1622 mixer, and a TOA 10 channel rack mounted mixer.  I can then mix, eq, and record my outboard synths, drum machine, and bass in one shot with a mixer output going into a Behringer UA202.
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> If I want to record individual tracks simultaneously, I have 3 stereo/6 mono inputs with the pci sound cards, 2 USB inputs with the UA202, 1 stereo/2 mono inputs with the AC'97 (only if absolutely necessary), and the guitar USB interface with the Behringer UCG102.  That's a total of 11 input channels.  Once the project is captured in Rosegarden or ecasound, I can manipulate each track.  However, I never record all 11 channels at the same time.
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> Does anybody know of a decent, probably small, Yamaha or Mackie mixer
> (that connects to computers) that is close to the $100 price tag?
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> If there is a board that can either USB or firewire into the computer,
> then would I still need something like the EMU 1616M?
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> Is there a less expensive variation of the EMU 1616M available?
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