Yo, back on Thursday 06 May 2010 Florian Faber was all like: > Reuben, > > > Alsa exposes all 64 matrix inputs as alsa ouputs, and I don't think > > the windows driver does that. (Never played with the windows driver, so > > I may be wrong about that) > > Than that's a bug in the snd-hdspm driver. > > > IIRC, they put such a huge matrix on it because they designed one > > chip to slap on all their cards in that family. Saves money to just design > > and fab one chip instead of a separate chip for each unit. > > It is an FPGA, so it's just a piece of firmware. If it really works to > pass along 64 playback channels instead of the 'official' 16 (I don't > know, I don't have an AES card), I really wouldn't recommend using this. > If one day the firmware gets modified to add new features, some now > officially 'unused' multipliers might be re-used and things will break. > After all, there is just a limited number of multipliers available.
I remember being a bit surprised when I first saw that there were 64 playback channels, but at the time I tried them all and I could route any of the 64 playback channels to any of the 16 outputs. Didn't think to test if there were limits to how many I could use at one time. But that was two years ago. Haven't had a chance to play with it since then. Have been thinking of getting one myself (or something similar) to replace the old RME 96/8 PAD I've been using for quite a while now. -Reuben _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
