Ice1712

From the ALSA wiki

The ice1712 driver is used for sound cards that use the Envy24 chipset. These include several models from Terratec and M-Audio (formerly Midiman). Such cards are generally professional quality multi-track sound cards.

1 Module options
2 Notes
3 User comments
4 See also

[edit] Module options

Sound card options:


description: "ICEnsemble ICE1712 (Envy24)"
author: "Jaroslav Kysela "
license: "GPL"
parm: index int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Index value for ICE1712 soundcard."
parm: id string array (min = 1, max = 8), description "ID string for ICE1712 soundcard."
parm: enable int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Enable ICE1712 soundcard."
parm: omni int array (min = 1, max = 8), description "Enable Midiman M-Audio Delta Omni I/O support." 
parm: cs8427_timeout int array (min = 0, max = ?), description "Timeout for initialization of SPDIF. Lower values give faster playback response on OSS but might leave SPDIF uninitialized"

[edit] Notes

Midiman cards consistently get good reports for sound quality and are recommended often as a good choice between price and professionalism.
Many but not all users complain about sound glitches. This may be due to the cards being IRQ hungry.

There is a special control panel and mixer program called envy24control which allows you to set up and use your ice1712-based sound card. envy24control is contained in the alsa-tools package. A patch for envy24control to use GTK+ 2.0 is available here. The following cards use the ice1712 driver. Info taken from ALSA Project, 1 December 2004:

Digigram VX442
Hoontech Soundtrack Audio DSP 24
IC Ensemble Generic device
Midiman/MAudio Delta 44 / 66 / 410 / 1010 / 1010-LT / Audiophile 2496 / DiO 2496
Seasound Solo
Sonorus Medi/o
Terratec EWS88D / EWS88MT / EWX24/96/ DMX 6Fire
Event Electronics EZ8

[edit] User comments

Z421 wrote on 2007-02-20: According to these sound glitches, i wan't you to say, that this was for me, on a m-audio1010lt, a problem in the bios. The option, which i had to disable, was "PCI Delay Transaction", to get this really disturbing glitches away. My mainboard is a asus a7v880, whith a via kt880/via vt8237. Also i often heard, that it is useful to set the "PCI Busmaster Waitstate" to a higher number than it is bios default. IRQ sharing is also sometimes a problem, and the "PCI Burst Mode" is also a good tip, but in my bios i don't have this option.