USB-audio card recommendation please

[Joan Quintana]

--- On Sun, 6/21/09, Hamish Low <sub_acoustic at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:

> From: Hamish Low <sub_acoustic at yahoo.co.nz>
> Subject: USB-audio card recommendation please
> To: ubuntu-studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 9:21 AM
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sick of waiting for Presonus to getting around to
> supporting FFADO 
> (I bought a Firebox - at the moment an expensive
> paperweight).
> Could some please recommend a USB-bus powered audio
> (audio/midi) 
> interface that works flawlessly with Ubuntu Studio?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Hamish Low
> 

I'm happy with my Roland Edirol UA-25EX. I'm interested in both MIDI and audio. In Ubuntu Studio 8.04 there was a patch for the kernel, but fortunately this is not necessary in US 9.04. Almost everything explained for Edirol UA-25 could be applied for Edirol UA-25EX. Read ALSA wiki pages. Is necessary to tweak .soundrc file if you use just one mic to record an audio file.

Joan Quintana