> >Designing viable firewire-based audio I/O is one my back-burner > >projects. > > its been done. i had an NDA from Digital Harmony to write the driver > for their firewire-based interface, and then they went belly up. the > business side of firewire audio is much more challenging right now > than the technical side.
MOTU has their 828 and 896 FireWire audio interfaces. Alas, there are no FireWire MIDI interfaces I know of. Also, I don't know if the MOTU interfaces use a proprietary protocol for the audio --martijn .
