I'm the happy owner a new home built workstation:
Asus P5B Deluxe
Core 2 Duo 6400
2GB
7600 GT 512mb
M-Audio Audiophile 2496
Ubuntu Studio 7.04

The onboard sound works just fine. I'm using it right now to listen to some dub mixes by Adrian Sherwood. My issue is that I'm coming from making music on the WinXP with Cakewalk ect. So I have a M-Audio Audiophile 2496, a full-duplex low-latency sound card.

It shows up in the Device Manager under PCI devices as My bad for buying a mobo with onboard audio. I was drawn to the bonus I/Os.


I now want to make music using Ubuntu studio. And never have a reason to boot into XP. My guess is that the ICE1712 will do better Full duplex than the Intel chip set. So far Hydrogen sounds crappy with Intel sound. Can I set the system up to be able to toggle between both?

What are my best options? If I have to choose one, it will be the ICE1712. I tried turning off onboard audio in the bios during install of Ubuntu Studio. The ICE1712 (audiophile 2496) wasn't recognized. What's curious to me is that Ubuntu recognized it fine in my previous AMD box without onboard audio.

Also, there doesn't seem to be much documentation on the audio software included with Ubuntu Studio. Does anyone know of a good one stop source of tutorials to get a user started configuring the system for sound and using Jack, Ardour and Wired?

Thanks.

There has been a lot of patch traffic recently in alsa for this card. I'd suggest goting to ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/alsa/snapshot/driver and getting a daily snapshot to see how far it has progressed. You should also subscribe to the alsa-devel mailing list if you want to monitor it's progress, or set up a newsfeed reader to point to the source repository to watch for updates. Go to alsa-project.org for more information.