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So I got the Blackjack for Christmas and it works flawlessly with JACK

(playback tested in Ardour and Audacity, I haven't tested recording

yet). In Audacity ALSA playback works without problems as well, but it

doesn't work with Phonon, it seems. I can't get sound out of VLC,

Amarok and the like, it just falls back to my internal soundcard. I am

using KDE on Arch Linux with the recent 3.1.5 kernel – any ideas

somebody how to fix that?
But apart from that I must say that I am impressed and glad that the

Blackjack works out of the box with JACK, that's the important thing

after all. Can't wait to test recording when I am back at my home.
Thanks, drz, for letting us know that the device works. I think I will

have some wonderful time with it. And funnily I also had cast an eye

on the Rode NT-1A microphone, so that will be my next investment.
--

Peter Crighton | (mainly) Progressive Rock musician based in

Mainz/Wiesbaden, Germany

http://www.petercrighton.de
2011/12/7 drz :

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> Am Montag 05 Dezember 2011, 23:14:18 schrieben Sie:

>> This is good news! I'm looking for a good USB 2-channel audio

>> interface for christmas and I was almost decided on the M-Audio Fast

>> Track Pro, which should be working out of the box with a 3.1 kernel,

>> too. But I reckon the Mackie is a way better device. It only lacks

>> 96kHz recording, but I think I can go without that.

>>

>> --

>> Peter Crighton | (mainly) Progressive Rock musician based in

>> Mainz/Wiesbaden, Germany

>> http://www.petercrighton.de

>>

>

> This may be getting OT, because its more of a help in a buy-decision. Sorry

> for that.

>

> First of all, I bet its way better than the Fast Track Pro. Mainly because of

> the preamps. But I havent checked the M-Audio out myself.

>

> But I have to add, that I did not check it out with a realtime kernel. Im on

> PowerPC (Powerbook G4) so I think I would have to compile the kernel myself.

> (I couldnt find a realtime kernel for PowerPC in the debian repositories,

> PowerPC repositories seem not to be that well maintained, cuz its kind of rare

> hardware these days, whatever, so Im hesitating fearing to have to struggle

> with too many problems, I want to make music rather than kernel compiliing in

> my freetime). I record in Cubase (Win XP) if I it depends on latency.

>

> This brings me to latency, which i didnt really check out in linux yet.

> Latency in Windows is no problem at all. But I heard about the lack of a good

> working 64-bit Windows 7 driver. So check that out if you are on Windows 7 64-

> bit. I once installed it on Windows 7 32-bit and there was no problem

> recording in Virtualdub (with Video, camcorder-micros are crap ;) ).

>

> So what I want to say is, I dont know if realtime kernels depend on special

> (and working) features in the driver or if it just works (realtime) if the

> driver gets the signals out of the box.

> I just tried out recordings in audacity, meaning 'live' recordings.  The sound

> of the blackjack is great with a decent micro (Rode NT-1A here).

>

> Greetings to neighbours from Frankfurt/Main

>

> drz

>

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