Hiho, On Thursday 07 July 2011 12:15:10 jurgen wrote: > I'm observing closely on other lists the discussion about firewire audio > interfaces running under Linux. And yet, I'm still confused. The ffado > site lists as "fully supported" only a handful of devices which are ALL > retired from the market. Newer devices are not supported or "reported to > work" which doesn't inspire me any confidence.
AFAIK the list of supported devices keeps growing... ... but with FireWire being phased out, we have to see how long that will last... and what USB3 and/or ThunderBolt will bring for the Pro Audio market. > I consider changing, currently I use a RME Multiface I since many years > which gives me never ending trouble under WinXP. The drivers constantly > get corrupted and they NEVER start i Puredyne or any other Linux distri, I > always need to start WinXP first to activate the driver and then restart > into Linux for making in work. When the driver doesn't work (most of the > time) I'm stranded under Linux and resort to OS X. I've had no problems with the MultiFace... not to that extent at least with Pure:Dyne. Occasionally, I do need to call hdsploader manually, but that's about it. I don't even think I have the RME drivers installed on the Windows partition of that machine. > Is there any reliable info about FW audio working (including MIDI) with > Puredyne? Alternatively I have thought of buying a Multiface II hoping my > problems are due to a hardware issue on my older Multiface I. I think I heard a rumour that RME revised their opinion for the FireFace and that it is now supported by FFADO. I've also worked with a Presonus (the smaller one, I forget the type number). The only issue I ran in there was a crappy FireWire chip in my laptop. > As a last alternative there are USB interfaces - however from what I recall > USB 2 is not yet running under Linux and USB 1 audio interface are out of > the question to me (they never have word clock connections for instance). USB2 has no audio standard, and thus all USB2 audio devices use something proprietary. USB1 can only handle a certain amount of channels. > I'd be real glad about any link, advice, remark... I don't think the RME MultiFace should be giving you such headaches... maybe investigate that issue a bit further? sincerely, Marije --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
