[vorbis] Re: Portable recording with a laptop

[Kenneth C. Arnold]

Colin D Bennett wrote:
> I think I'll go with the M-Audio or another USB sound device.
> 
> Right now I'm using Audacity (http://audacity.sf.net). I like its 
> multitrack editing, but it has been very unstable for me, it crashes a 
> lot, the amplify tool clips the sound all the time, floating point sound 
> gets clipped and sounds weird, the compress tool doesn't seem to work at 
> all, and so on. (I've tried everything, at least 6 or 7 different 
> versions, RPMs, compiled from CVS, etc.) So I'd really like a better 
> tool. Is there any better sound editor out there (for Linux)?

Considering that we're off-topic already, I'll chime in a positive word 
for Ardour (http://ardour.sf.net). It requires ALSA, but it seems that 
ALSA is the framework for choice for professional-level audio on Linux.

<offtopic degree="extreme">
And if you do go with the M-Audio Audiophile USB, can you post some info 
(publicly available, even if only on mailing list archives) on how it 
works in Linux? The newsgroups seem to be all Windows and Mac. This is 
the interface I'm considering, but there have been strong suggestions to 
spend the extra money and go Firewire (1394). The decision is 
complicated by sparse information about Linux support and numerous 
issues raised about the reliability of the USB audio interfaces in general.
</offtopic>

Vorbis-related bit: what happens to quality and bitrate at sampling 
rates that these interfaces often can give, e.g. 96k?

Ken

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