Live Audio Recording Hardware

Jeff91 · 03-20-2010, 08:18 PM

Howdy All,

So I work off and on doing live sound work and I am interested in starting to record some of the shows I work on. Naturally I only run Linux based operating systems on my computers so I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good piece of hardware for recording 8-16 tracks that fully supports Linux. I have firewire and USB interfaces on my studio laptop.

Regards,
~Jeff Hoogland

jefro · 03-21-2010, 06:08 PM

I don't think you will find much that competes with windows.

See here for a start. http://www.linux-sound.org/drivers.html

cladisch · 03-22-2010, 07:30 AM

The only supported USB devices for multichannel recording are the Edirol UA-1000/UA-101 (playback works only with the new driver in the latest kernel).
Firewire currently requires FFADO which works only with Jack; for a list of supported devices, see http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport/list.