Re: [Alsa-user] M-Audio Fast Track USB

[Lee R. <rlr...@jo...>]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 17:51 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> It might be amazing, but as you might remember/know, I tested about 20
> USB devices once on Linux 2.4 and 2.6 and most of them worked very
> well, I still use one of them as my main laptop soundcard. If you
> cannot use PCI or CardBus, USB is a good and generally well working
> alternative.

Yep.  As a matter of fact it seems like a lot of this stuff works as
well or better on Linux than those other OSes.  IIRC USB audio didn't
work well at all on Windows XP until SP1 or SP2.

>  It also works better than many onboard soundchips in
> laptops.

True.  My roommate makes electronic music/DJ type stuff and some of his
old laptop recordings are hilarious, they are full of singing capacitor
noises.  It actually sounds good, kind of like a scratchy LP.

Lee