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>https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Musicians_Guide/sect-Musicians_Guide-USB_Sound_Cards.html https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/ht

by ptah 7y ago

>https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Musicians_Guide/sect-Musicians_Guide-USB_Sound_Cards.html https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Musician... this is completely wrong. internal audio interfaces tend to be worse than external audio interfaces. what internal soundcard can compete with a universal audio apollo?

C1sc0cat 7y ago
Exactly the average internal sound card is normally the cheapest part you can get away with and wont have AISO drivers It wont also have proper Line and Instrument just a 3.5 jack if your lucky and a combo jack in a lot of cases
johnr2 7y ago
>this is completely wrong. internal audio interfaces tend to be worse than external audio interfaces. what internal soundcard can compete with a universal audio apollo? Audio engineer here. It isn't wrong. PCI and PCIe cards with external AD/DA converters have better performance, reliability and higher channel counts. Eg.: https://www.rme-audio.de/hdspe-madi.html https://www.rme-audio.de/hdspe-madi.html 64 channels in, 64 out. Works fine on Linux.
- ptah 7y ago
  genuinely curious: what daw software are you using with this on linux?
  - johnr2 7y ago
    > what daw software are you using with this on linux? I used Ardour for ~8 years, then switched to Non DAW ~6 years ago: http://non.tuxfamily.org/ http://non.tuxfamily.org/
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casion 7y ago
You're confusing internal/external and USB. USB devices _do_ incur extra latency. The USB apollos do suffer from this. The firewire and thunderbolt do not. Whether a devices is internal or external is irrelevant. There are "Internal" devices that are PCI based which have excellent performance, and external devices that are Thunderbolt based with equal (and better!) performance characteristics. I believe you're talking about onboard sound, not "internal", in which case you're correct. However, that's not what the link is talking about.

by ptah 7y ago

C1sc0cat 7y ago

Exactly the average internal sound card is normally the cheapest part you can get away with and wont have AISO drivers It wont also have proper Line and Instrument just a 3.5 jack if your lucky and a combo jack in a lot of cases

johnr2 7y ago

>this is completely wrong. internal audio interfaces tend to be worse than external audio interfaces. what internal soundcard can compete with a universal audio apollo? Audio engineer here. It isn't wrong. PCI and PCIe cards with external AD/DA converters have better performance, reliability and higher channel counts. Eg.: https://www.rme-audio.de/hdspe-madi.html https://www.rme-audio.de/hdspe-madi.html 64 channels in, 64 out. Works fine on Linux.

ptah 7y ago
genuinely curious: what daw software are you using with this on linux?
- johnr2 7y ago
  > what daw software are you using with this on linux? I used Ardour for ~8 years, then switched to Non DAW ~6 years ago: http://non.tuxfamily.org/ http://non.tuxfamily.org/

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casion 7y ago

You're confusing internal/external and USB. USB devices _do_ incur extra latency. The USB apollos do suffer from this. The firewire and thunderbolt do not. Whether a devices is internal or external is irrelevant. There are "Internal" devices that are PCI based which have excellent performance, and external devices that are Thunderbolt based with equal (and better!) performance characteristics. I believe you're talking about onboard sound, not "internal", in which case you're correct. However, that's not what the link is talking about.