Hi studio people,
Takashi Sakamoto has been working, for a while, to make proper ALSA
drivers for Firewire, so we don't have to rely on libffado for Firewire
support - Firewire sound cards will just work like any other sound card,
e g USB.
I've set up automatic builds of his work (for Ubuntu 14.04), and you can
find and test the result here:
https://launchpad.net/~diwic/+archive/snd-firewire-improve
I'm sure he will welcome more testing of his drivers while they make
their way upstream.
It's currently known that they don't work with Audacity and many cards
will not work with PulseAudio either (without special configuration in
PulseAudio). Stuff like this requires work across the stack, so not
everything can or should be fixed in the drivers.
Nevertheless it would be interesting to know what other common
applications work and don't work with his new drivers.
So if you have an old (or new!) firewire sound card in your shelf, feel
free to grab it and plug it in. Happy testing!
--
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic
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