Re: stereo should be enough for anyone?

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:09:53AM +0200, Niklas Wallen wrote:
> > How about calling them "busses"?  That's the real-world analogy to what you have
> > on a hardware mixer.  You even use the term BUS in your constant name!
> 
> Oh, all righty then. :) I thought of the bus as the whole set of channels..
 
That's the electrical-engineering thought I had, too.  But I guess it doesn't matter what word is chosen as long as everyone uses it consistently.  (Ha!)

> > For what it's worth I think this is a very useful feature that should be
> > included in all software nowadays given how much cheaper and more plentiful
> > multi-channel, er, output, er, bus -- whatever! -- sound interfaces have become
> > in the past few years.
> 
> Absolutely. I've got a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (aka Videologic Sonic Fury) which
> supports 6 speakers and I want to experiment with them. The problem is that there
> are no programs (that I know of) that can do it. But octal will, wheey :)

This is OT, but I'm finally about to put together a new system.  Does someone want to recommend to me a sound card that will provide me with at least the following:

- 1+ digital inputs (stereo)
- 1+ digital outputs (stereo or more)
- line-level analog in and out (stereo or more)
- ALSA support
- a price tag that won't break the bank

Also, I'm heartened to see traffic on the list...I had been messing around with OCTAL but I only have so many hours in the day free to play with it.  Could we set up some sort of code-exchange system (i'm thinking about the site on subversions.gnu.org right now) so that some of these things that people have been doing can actually be shared with others?

-m