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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: monami on March 07, 2007, 08:55:00 AM

Title: do usb soundcard dongles work in amiga?
Post by: monami on March 07, 2007, 08:55:00 AM

do these work in amiga?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-3D-Sound-Card-5-1-CH-Powerful-Notebook-Sound-UK_W0QQitemZ160091250167QQihZ006QQcategoryZ108984QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item160091250167

i'd get usb if they did...

Title: Re: do usb soundcard dongles work in amiga?
Post by: motorollin on March 07, 2007, 09:18:10 AM

No. USB is too slow on Amigas, and there are no drivers for that equipment.

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moto

Title: Re: do usb soundcard dongles work in amiga?
Post by: weirdami on March 07, 2007, 11:53:07 AM

So, what's being sold via that really long URL is a device to make your laptop generate 5.1 audio for those surround sound speakers you lug around on the back of a mule when you take your laptop places?

Title: Re: do usb soundcard dongles work in amiga?
Post by: gertsy on March 07, 2007, 01:34:17 PM

It's only 4 speaker virtual surround.  How they get away with putting the 5.1 I don't know.
 :evil:

Title: Re: do usb soundcard dongles work in amiga?
Post by: melange on March 07, 2007, 01:54:56 PM

I brought 2 of those, becuase I wanted to use my laptop to record a band live, and brought a couple as a tester to see how the lappy would perform as a 4 track recorder.  Problem was, the dongle has a mic jack that can't be configured as line (like I was hoping it might be) , and to make matters worse, it wasn't a stereo input, only mono.  I was then equally shocked to find my expensive ASUS laptop, also only had a mono mic and line input.  I was a bit annoyed by that.
The sound cards were cheap tho, so no great loss.  :-D
Behringer make a nice USB one, but it's more expensive than that, about $60 AUS.  :-)