What professional PCIe audio cards do work with Linux?

[Mike Holstein]

On Nov 11, 2012 5:22 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
> Hi :)
>
> I already asked on some lists about my RME HDSPe AIO card. I explicitly
> bought this for Linux usage only in 2011, but never needed all
> available channels until now. Now I notice that the card can't be used
> for serious audio productions. At the moment I'm producing. It's very
> time consuming and a lot of the things I need aren't available. The card
> + ADAT comes with 10 IOs, but only 4 can be used, so I only can loop in
> one 19" reverb, already a help, but not enough for my needs.
>
> Are there any professional PCIe audio cards that are working with Linux?
> I'll ask this on several lists, perhaps somebody does know such a card
> at least on one list
I would exhaust support for the rme device. I am planning on going with rme
as my final studio interface for my main desktop rig. Maybe try disabling
*all* other sound devices and test with a few live cd's such as avlinux. If
you can go with firewire there are quite a few "good value" devices. The
focusrite sapphire 40... I have a presonus firepod and I have researched
the echo audiofire which has no onboard preamps, only 12 nice balanced ins
and outs. I feel the clock might be noticably better in the audiofire or an
rme device compared to my firepod. Otherwise, the firepod is well supported
by ffado, gets great performace/latency in linux (around 2ms stable) and
the preamps are decent, though easy to bypass with balanced ins and outs. I
think the sapphire probably has a little better preamps, and is in a
similar price range, and I have heard great things about its
performance/support in linux. I would try and find someone with that rme
hardware in maybe the ardour community and just ask how they utilize it. I
have only heard good things about the support for rme, though I remeber
reading something paul davus posted about pcie versus pci. Good luck!
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
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