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yoink · 30th November 2009

Echo Audio has been fantastic about providing support for Linux. All their PCI interfaces (Layla3G, Layla24 etc.) are supported. And while the latter are long discontinued, they're still viable recording interfaces, especially under linux. I also had a quick look and they support some M-Audio interfaces as well.

We used a Layla24 to test some early builds of Ardour. Ardour is fantastic now - works quite well on the Mac as well with support for AU plugins (Mac only.) While there aren't many commercial audio plugins for Linux, there is a vast number of free, open source plugins. (http://www.linux-sound.org/plugins.html)

In the end, if you have an ALSA-capable device with ADAT Optical I/O you can use another set of converters and still feed a linux distro quality audio.

Ubuntu Studio, last time I checked, was quite good.

30th November 2009	#8
yoink Gear addict Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Montreal, Quebec Posts: 320	Echo Audio has been fantastic about providing support for Linux. All their PCI interfaces (Layla3G, Layla24 etc.) are supported. And while the latter are long discontinued, they're still viable recording interfaces, especially under linux. I also had a quick look and they support some M-Audio interfaces as well. We used a Layla24 to test some early builds of Ardour. Ardour is fantastic now - works quite well on the Mac as well with support for AU plugins (Mac only.) While there aren't many commercial audio plugins for Linux, there is a vast number of free, open source plugins. (http://www.linux-sound.org/plugins.html) In the end, if you have an ALSA-capable device with ADAT Optical I/O you can use another set of converters and still feed a linux distro quality audio. Ubuntu Studio, last time I checked, was quite good.