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stable I/O SYNCH audio card devices on linux

Hello,

My lab has tested the Echo Layla3G extensively on Linux for the past 9 months or more and we think we are seeing issue with synchronization.  We are considering other cards, but I want to ask you all if you've work with Linux (any flavor) and any multi-ch i/o card where I/O synchronization is stable for research purposes?

I'm going to now try the CardDeluxe and will let you know what we find.

On this list the only entry I found was the RME Multiface sound cards: 

http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1002D&L=AUDITORY&P=R1104&I=-3

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Subject:      Re: need recommendation on PC sound card
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Am 21. Feb. 2010 um 19:12 Uhr schrieb G. Robert Arrabito:

> I did a quick search on the last two years of the auditory mailing list 
> archives  on pc sound  card recommendations and didn't find much on the 
> topic so hence  my post to the list. I am looking for recommendations for 
> an internal PC high quality sound card that will be used to output 
> auditory stimuli in my experiments.

That depends on your

  - system architecture
  - operating system
  - number of input/output channels
  - kind of interfaces (analog/digital...)
  - budget
  - ... .

In our lab we have good experience with RME Multiface sound cards[1].

> Would also be nice if there is an accompanying software development
> kit. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

A sound card shouldn't require a special SDK. Instead, use one of the
sound APIs of your operating system. If you are using Linux, use ALSA[2]


 
// Sal Aguinaga
// Staff HW/SW Engineer 
// Northwestern University