On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 19:53, Jan Depner wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 10:15, Marek Peteraj wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 14:50, Tim Goetze wrote: > > > [Marek Peteraj] > > > >> RME has provided > > > >> "Pro" grade audio hardware when Linux Audio needed it > > > >> in order to become a legitimate alternative to > > > >> proprietary solutions. > > > > > > > >Not really. It was Paul, Thomas, and one other guy(don't remember the > > > >name) who did. Remember it was almost no investment from RME's side. > > > > > > A not uncommon belief has it that the investment called 'trust' is > > > worth more than any monetary investment. > > > > Ah i don't know. I mean, you guys have put a lot of time into what your > > doing anyway. And in my case the trust in rme turned out to be a bummer > > just becasue i was thinking that they have trust in the open source > > developers. If they did have such trust, something like this would never > > happen. Once again, the simple answer is www.audioscience.com. > > > > Why don't the guys who do the driver development see if audioscience
Do you mean the ALSA developers? Audioscience does its drivers for ALSA, no volunteers needed. :) > would be interested in producing pro audio cards (not just broadcast) > with driver help from the OS community. They seem like they have their > act together. Seems like a good idea to me. The 5044 cards offers 8 analog i/os of 24/192 and i wonder whether such card could not already be used for studio purposes. But in any case, they're very close. Marek