Craig... I've been using ecasound and ALSA from the CCRMA distribution
which includes low-latency kernels w/ALSA.
(http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/). I've used it with the
Delta 1010 and Delta 66 and get flawless performance -- no dropped samples,
no other funny business (and I think I'm pretty finicky about this stuff).
The machine is a 900MHz Via mini-ITX. I haven't made the leap to the 2.6
kernels because the CCRMA 2.4.26 kernel, which includes an assortment of
low-latency patches, is working well for me. I've also written some of my
own LADSPA plugins.
The executive summary is: go for it. The CCRMA distro makes it pretty easy.
Aaron Heller <heller@email-addr-hidden>
Menlo Park, CA
--On Sunday, February 13, 2005 0:20 -0800 Cassettes2CDs
<cassettes2cds@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Dear fellow ecasounders,
>
> This is a request for advice and opinions, and not for
> a solution to a particular problem per se. I hope
> that "takes the edge off."
>
> I've been ecasounding with my M Audio Delta 1010LT's
> (and commercial OSS driver) for three years now in my
> cassettes2cds.com business, and all has been going
> well.
>
> However, I can't seem to keep OSS from locking up the
> computer now that I've upgraded the kernel (2.4.7 ->
> 2.4.22) in order to use the Andrew Morten low-latency
> patches, which I'm sure many of you know all about.
> I've put in a solid day of hacking "this" and
> recompiling "that," and am running out of ideas.
>
> (Who knows, maybe the low-latency stuff is what's
> crashing it?)
>
> So I'm at a fork in the road here. Either I invest a
> few more days of frustration into making OSS work, or
> I just give and switch to ALSA by default.
>
> For what it's worth, all I do is 32-bit 44100samp/sec
> stereo recording, running the sound through one
> special LADSPA plugin I've written.
>
> What do -you- think I should do? Am I right that I've
> only really heard of the low-latency patches being
> used with ALSA, and not OSS? Or is one no better than
> the other? Etc.
>
> Thanks for all the pointers you can give me. I can
> feel that this is one of those times when 10 or 20
> words from someone else who knows better will light
> the way for me. Let those words be yours,
> --Craig Meyer
> Seattle WA
>
> =====
> --Craig Meyer
> Customer Service
> Cassettes2CDs.com
>
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