Hello all,

I did find my answer. 8-96kHz with internal clock. 32-96kHz s/pdif clock. But how does everyone find it to work under linux?

I have a PCI 24/96.

For me, it performs very well indeed in 64studio+JACK - I routinely use 22050, 44100 and occassionally 48000.

I've not tried it any faster than that yet.

Steve~

Hi Steve,

Yeah, understandingly so about the 44 and 48kHZ. There is a huge difference in 16bit, 24bit, etc. It took me a while to fully grasp the parallel between the two and how just the sample and bit rate really effect the sound quality of your recordings. Back in the day I had 16bit input (32bit float) and the difference today is huge with 24bit (solid). The 2496 will give me midi capacity for doing the odd fill track in Rosegarden and shortly Ardour.

Thanks for the feedback,
MiCK

It works great for me. The latency is usually less than 5 msecs and I don't understand why but when i was using 96k the latency was reduced down to 2msecs! Occsionlly I will run Azureus, Jack, Mplayer, Ardour, Hydrogen, and Firefox all at the same time. Sometimes I"ll get xruns when I'm really abusing my computer. I don't run Compiz-Fusion so I think that helps. :) No eye candy needed. I'd rather have faster swtiching windows nd greater audio quality. Midi also works very well. I've connected my Roland MC-303 and my MusicStar midi keyboard ($1 at a garage sale).

Hi there,

I use 64 studio (64 bit version) and was wondering if anyone was able to use MIDI on the 2496. I was thinking about buying one but I see conflicting information about whether the MIDI part of the card actually works.

Cheers

Steve

since this first posting i have a M-Audio 2496 card and the midi is working just fine. I use the midi to trigger the drums in hydrogen and the synth racks so i have a lot less programming of drums to do. i can use the midi to play the drums "live" so to speak with the tracks i have laid.

MiCK

I'm going to get one of those. Thanks MiCK

jk47, think that with the same frame period, if you increase the sample frequency, you will decrease the latency... It is the same for all sound cards.

Toine

I dont have any problem it works very well at every frequencies.

One i had this with Ubuntu studio it was only working with 48khz and i could not change. But i migrate to 64Studio, OpenSuse, 64Studio again and always fully workling.

Have you tried alsaconf to fix it ? You'd better begin with before to plan something else.

everything is right.

Increase sample rate decrease latency.
Increase bit definition too

because a same buffer size will be empty faster

You may also decrease buffer size, if it works well at 96Khz with 256ko it also works well at 48 with 128ko

Latency time could means time to read whole buffer and increase bit resolution or frequencies sample rate will need to read faster whole buffer.

64Studio has a mixer program called envy24control. Try setting the cards internal sample rate there first and then fire up qjackctl to set up the frame rate. Audiophile2496 is in my opinion excellent value for money and can do very low latencies in Linux - and sounds great, too.