[PlanetCCRMA] Re: [Alsa-user] Audio interface compatibility
Turkay Guner
Turkay Guner <turkayguner@gmail.com>
Wed May 4 07:26:00 2005
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Woaw the news are really good, i'll be really excited when i start to recor=
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with my FW Solo with all of its capacity. Now waiting for that day. Thanks=
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for all the developers if they read this thread...
On 5/3/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 03 May 2005 11:30:27 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
> <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 09:00, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > No - that means it's on the list. My card wason the list for a year a=
t
> > > least before it worked well enough for me to use every day.
> > >
> > > that said you need to check out the FreeBob project. This is the only
> > > program I know of for supporting Firewire devices under Alsa. Check
> > > out their compatibility before you do anythign requiring money.
> >
> > I saw a demo of their linux drivers in the LAC2005 conference and it wa=
s
> > working... but not completely. They did play soundfiles from a pc to a
> > freebob compatible interface (and they were showing several of them at
> > the conference). Anyway, if I understood correctly they are about 2 - 3
> > months away from releasing a truly working version of the drivers. Very
> > good news, I think.
> >
> > -- Fernando
> >
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> Yeah, I hear on the FreeBob list that it's getting better. I think
> audio at 44K & 48K is in pretty good shape actually. There are still a
> great number of things to work on before it becomes really useful:
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> 1) MIDI - there's a hack that allows some MIDI now. That's cool.
> 2) There is no configuration app like hdspconf for the HDSP line so
> you cannot change clock sources or anything like that.
> 3) No hardware monitoring. (Does this work for anyone? I'm not sure...)
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> None the less it's a good accomplishment ot get this far. They are
> nicely tied in with the right 1394 developers so that's pretty cool.
> I'm excited to look at this again in a few months.
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> - Mark
>
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Woaw the news are really good, i'll be really excited when i start to
record with my FW Solo with all of its capacity. Now waiting for that
day. Thanks for all the developers if they read this thread...<br><br><div>=
<span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 5/3/05, <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">Mark K=
necht</b> <<a href=3D"mailto:markknecht@gmail.com">markknecht@gmail.com<=
/a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1=
px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"=
>On 03 May 2005 11:30:27 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano<br><<a href=3D"ma=
ilto:nando@ccrma.stanford.edu">
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 09:00=
, Mark Knecht wrote:<br>> > No - that means it's on the list. My card=
wason the list for a year at<br>> > least before it worked well enou=
gh for me to use every day.
<br>> ><br>> > that said you need to check out the FreeBob proj=
ect. This is the only<br>> > program I know of for supporting Firewir=
e devices under Alsa. Check<br>> > out their compatibility before you=
do anythign requiring money.
<br>><br>> I saw a demo of their linux drivers in the LAC2005 confere=
nce and it was<br>> working... but not completely. They did play soundfi=
les from a pc to a<br>> freebob compatible interface (and they were show=
ing several of them at
<br>> the conference). Anyway, if I understood correctly they are about =
2 - 3<br>> months away from releasing a truly working version of the dri=
vers. Very<br>> good news, I think.<br>><br>> -- Fernando<br>>
<br><br>Yeah, I hear on the FreeBob list that it's getting better. I think<=
br>audio at 44K & 48K is in pretty good shape actually. There are still=
a<br>great number of things to work on before it becomes really useful:
<br><br>1) MIDI - there's a hack that allows some MIDI now. That's cool.<br=
>2) There is no configuration app like hdspconf for the HDSP line so<br>you=
cannot change clock sources or anything like that.<br>3) No hardware monit=
oring. (Does this work for anyone? I'm not sure...)
<br><br>None the less it's a good accomplishment ot get this far. They are<=
br>nicely tied in with the right 1394 developers so that's pretty cool.<br>=
I'm excited to look at this again in a few months.<br><br>- Mark<br></block=
quote>
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