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