From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 3 20:13:10 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FFDAED3 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 20:13:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gobble.wa@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-x22e.google.com (mail-bk0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4008:c01::22e]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B3D31346 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 20:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f46.google.com with SMTP id na10so2185955bkb.5 for ; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:13:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=yVXSAgR75a1wrUGDfVzpuX0p9KB+e2884P10uEYHci4=; b=sqRuZkAVkYU95siv8QmtpOP50nWuLGPNrRKL/J/+jSpXUmWEt8/qZJPfHSGxBvpQNt laGP9ONNo0vscmTS4FYu4du5naQReEfCMwvoNsvUGgFHgx9vgDcd7YVF+6q4g9INV3cI +XCoRwDvjOy02H0qJE/CgQIulOFPfG0g1eR552ud5VSTAZCgbZ5fXHNgqHybkFfEyf4O zsZAERbIVgxMfoLsFA/jr80ffgA9xJ+IJYkvaaJfrMLeyb3U6sDVGJewP6UYgGzRG1sv 2pP4uv0cb0fjxQIPl8wBc6wrjjK1OlTQk6c4xpw/6islyhu5xeOUk+JcIMQ/Xkdq/Qhw F+LQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.204.166.133 with SMTP id m5mr7127205bky.78.1370290389252; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:13:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.184.8 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 13:13:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.184.8 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Jun 2013 13:13:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130602185742.F9E5.AA011270@yahoo.com> References: <20130602185742.F9E5.AA011270@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 13:13:09 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Sound cards From: Waitman Gobble To: birdfund@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:13:10 -0000 On Jun 2, 2013 3:57 PM, "mike miskulin" wrote: > > Hi all - I may be building a system which does not have any onboard > sounds thus need to find either a pci-e or usb solution which will work > with FreeBSD. I've combed newegg and have to say I never realized how > crappy the sound cards have become - that used to be a big thing back in > the day! > > Could any of you who have installed something of ->recent<- vintage > which worked well post the make/model? I just need something for basic > audio, nothing superduper. > > TIA > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" hi, i believe the market been more about mainstream-acceptable quality for cheaper and cheaper the past few years. most people use on board sound. not sure there will alot of new and exciting sound cards coming soon, its kind of at the limit of pcm. it will be totally very cool when sound cards do dsd / 5.7 mhz / 1 bit sampling rates, but thats still a ways off i think. i use a creative x-fi card pci-e, the blue one that runs about 50 bucks... on a FreeBSD system, it works pretty good with oss in base or you can try v4.2 in ports. asus xonar cards are excellent, they supposedly work in oss but i have not tried my xonar on a FreeBSD machine yet. if you run usb sound, i recommend getting an add-IN usb card, especially if you want to do some 48k recording. add a couple devices to your usb bus and you might notice some latency. Hope that helps. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA