Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 13:44:55 -0700 From: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> To: birdfund@yahoo.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sound cards Message-ID: <CAFuo_fwMgD%2BQXTz69ZvDVfh9g0mSps88VN%2BZ1DLKL24y382KsA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFuo_fxLe4vCNtxRhxVT9d9f6kJ1CJuHpAOxfqLTV-MidQUpmA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20130602185742.F9E5.AA011270@yahoo.com> <CAFuo_fxLe4vCNtxRhxVT9d9f6kJ1CJuHpAOxfqLTV-MidQUpmA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2013 3:57 PM, "mike miskulin" <birdfund@yahoo.com> 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 > Sorry, I was typing my email on my phone before. yikes, grammar! Anyhow, this card works pretty good on my FreeBSD system: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829102017 Note: if you want 'more' than 16bit stereo sound, ie multiple 'surround sound' channels, 32(24) bit, 96Khz recording - you have to do a little code hacking. That card also has an ac3 decoder, so I think you can dump ac3 data to it, but i haven't tried that yet. 'one of these weekends' i'll get to it. :) -- Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA 510-830-7975
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