Chuckists! First mail in this mailing list and there will probably be many more. I am a newbie with chuck. Been reading a bit and I am very excited to get my brain into this. Thanks all for putting this public. This looks exactly the type of language I ve been looking for in the last couple of months. I come from the programming side rather then musical. Anyway, my question relates to hardware. I am using ubuntu or gentoo OS. Do you have any hardware recommendation for a sound card? My current inboard card flickers the sound when I launch a simple sin loop. Even without any sound, I can hear some noises - I just think my current card is really really bad. Do you have any suggestions for a good sound card? What is the best solution - get an amplifier and use a numeric2analog converter? Secondly, I guess ALSA is the way to go or JACK, any documentation on that? Thanks, ./.Carl