On Sat, 2020-01-25 at 10:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-01-24 at 23:30 +0000, Dmitri Seletski wrote:
> > https://www.schiit.com/products/fulla-1
>
> Since it's an USB device, it's most likely class compliant...
>
> > Just connected it, alsa works by default, but no software mixer.
>
> ...this means that it works for Linux and Apple without the need of a
> proprietary driver. Nobody needs to do reverse engineering or to beg to
> get detailed information from the vendor, if the vendor doesn't provide
> a driver.
Oops:
> However, accessing the software mixer requires a driver.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
actually it's the device's hardware mixer
that is doing internal routing, providing
digital effects or any other special feature.
You could always use a software mixer, such as
the one available by Ardour. However, such a
software mixer doesn't allow to benefit from
the device's hardware (mixer) features.
>
> Btw. among other prosumer and pro audio devices I own a prosumer
> Focusrite Scarlett series class compliant USB audio device (a 18i20) of
> the 2nd generation. For at least some, if not all of the 1st generation
> Scarlett audio devices, Linux provides access to the hardware mixer, but
> not for the 2nd generation. By now already a 3rd generation exists.
>
> IOW just because a driver for a particular revision of hardware does
> exist, it doesn't mean that all revisions are supported.
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