On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 10:27, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > > > > 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 > > Thanks for the vote of confidence! > > > Do you mean the ALSA developers? Audioscience does its drivers for ALSA, > > no volunteers needed. :) > > Not so fast... we at audioscience would love to have some help with our ALSA > driver and our underlying HPI driver. > We are a small company that supports various Micros~1 flavours as well as > Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernel variations. I am the single person who does all the > linux stuff, and would still say I don't know enough to do it easily or > properly. > > (Of course I have had help from our customers and other alsa developers, and > kudos to Takashi Iwai for doing the work to incorporate our ALSA driver into > the alsa tree) > > So step right up...
Hi Eliot, thanks for clarifying this up for us. Nevertheless i think that what you do is great and your the *only* company that does provide official alsa drivers and support for professional audio products(i know it's just you but anyway, the philosophy is cool). I think that you would get a lot of feedback if you entered the studio market. > > > > 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. > > So, what is the difference between our current offerings and what you'd like > to see in a "pro audio card"? I think that having a breakout box with 24/192 converters inside the breakoutbox would rock. 8 analog i/o is fine too. Most such devices usually offer around 26 channels of inputs + 26 chans of outputs, ~1/2 being digital. Hmmm now that i think about it, the 5042(the AES/EBU one) with a breakoutbox with analog i/o would be really cool. Not sure about how much load the DSP processor can handle and whether it's flotingpoint capable, but running a few ladspas on such DSP would be very nice too. :) Just some initial thoughts. Marek