I am currently looking for my 1st mic and 1st audio interface for hobby vocals recording. The internet says that [Behringer U-Phoria](https://www.behringer.com/series.html?category=R-BEHRINGER-UPHORIASERIES) is the most optimal price-quality choice, and uses a standard driver and in Linux just works. But some people are dissatisfied with the quality. [Arturia MiniFuse](https://www.arturia.com/products/audio/minifuse/thecollection) has been recommended as next optimal price-quality choice, with quality that does deliver. But uses a proprietary driver. It can default to class-compliant but some people report issues under Linux. Does anyone here use a USB audio inteface with *BSD? If not, maybe with Linux, or Haiku or any non-mainstream OS? How is the experience?

USB audio interface for *BSD - any recommendations?

uxer

I am currently looking for my 1st mic and 1st audio interface for hobby vocals recording.

The internet says that Behringer U-Phoria is the most optimal price-quality choice, and uses a standard driver and in Linux just works. But some people are dissatisfied with the quality.

Arturia MiniFuse has been recommended as next optimal price-quality choice, with quality that does deliver. But uses a proprietary driver. It can default to class-compliant but some people report issues under Linux.

Does anyone here use a USB audio inteface with *BSD? If not, maybe with Linux, or Haiku or any non-mainstream OS? How is the experience?

nettester

I used to run one of those $1-2 dongles on Linux. No problems whatsoever. Seems to be some very generic chipset. I'm not 100% sure where it's at currently, so i can't test with BSD but i wouldn't be surprised if it works there too and at next to nothing it wouldn't be much of a gamble anyways. As for audiophile ambitions... i guess it's obvious that at $1-2 you should very much forget about those.

kc9udx

I have two: I use them with my Pinebook Pro running NetBSD.

Why two? One works for input, the other for output. I could not get either to do both. They are cheapies from amazon (I don't recommend buying there). I actually only bought two thinking hopefully I could get one to work. I didn't expect what actually happened.

If I get a chance I'll look to see what they are. I posted it on the Pine 64 forum but that seems to be down at the moment.

One is a Startech ICUSBAUSIO7D the other is Toshiba SB0500

uxer

In case someone lands here from search engines.

I ended up with Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD.

I had an opportunity to talk to a professional musician who owns this exact device model,
and he says it is a high quality product which will easily cover beginner and intermediate audio needs for 10 years at least,
and he let me test it with my laptop.

He is just a normie not used to nerdy tech but used to plug-and-play out-of-the-box and fancy GUI and made a joke on provincial 19th century OS seeing me typing into and reading from a terminal 😃

With ThinkPad T530 running OpenBSD, UMC204HD works via certain USB ports while it doesn't via certain others. I didn't check which ones exactly, I just plug it into the one that works.
I vaguelly recall this is a known issue that USB v3 may not work and may need disabling v3 support in BIOS.

Then I purchased a second-hand UMC204HD online, so I have tested two devices in total.

I only used single microphone and headphones - these do fine.
I have nothing to say about other features.

I read you need to rcctl set sndiod flags -f rsnd/0 -F rsnd/1 for OpenBSD to automatically switch between built-in and external audio. Yet sometimes it wouldn't work for me. I added a couple more devices, it seems to have helped:
rcctl set sndiod flags -f rsnd/0 -F rsnd/1 -F rsnd/2 -F rsnd/3