>>--*-- What is the best-supported *Pro Audio* device in terms of solid >> ALSA dri ver support? Not interested in Sound Blasters and chips on >> the motherboard -- >> something along the lines of the Echo, M-Audio, or RME products. But >> the ALS >>A drivers need to be stable -- and need to fully support the >> capabilities of h e respective device (i.e., on-board DSP, MIDI, or >> whatever). > > the echo drivers are extremely new, and largely untested at this > point. they may even be incomplete. > > the m-audio drivers are probably the oldest, and have been widely > tested. i don't know how well they support the latest incarnations of > the ice17XX chipsets. there is also a good control application for these > interfaces. > > the rme drivers (i was the initial primary author) are stable and > complete for the original hammerfall series. they have been evolving for > the hdsp series. slightly older hdsp cards will work well, as do newer > kernels when used with the pcmcia interfaces (since this tends to > require up-to-date support for CardBus devices in the kernel as much as > anything specifically related to the hdsp). as with many > companies, rme unfortunately does not keep us 100% up to date on what > they are doing with their interfaces, and so as they change the > firmware it turns out that we lag behind, typically by a few > weeks. thomas charbonnel has done some fantastic work implementing > totalmix for linux, and so the only "hole" at the moment for these cards > appears to involve some issues with MIDI performance (and > firmware lags) >
What makes you think we have midi performance issues ? One long lasting midi bug was found and corrected by Marcus Andersson and Jaroslav while you were away in July. As far as I know, there is no other midi problem at the moment, please correct me if I'm wrong. Thomas ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
