In my experience if you want to use Linux in general it pays to pre-research any new or newly purchased hardware and screen out things like Nvidia graphics that work poorly with FOSS software and drivers. For instance, I would not accept any camera that wrote only to an internal hard drive unless I knew for certain it could be connected to without Windoze or Crapple.
If I were stuck with such a camera I would have to sell it unused and use the proceeds to buy one with removable storage. On 9/2/2015 at 10:54 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:09:55 +0200, ttoine wrote: >>What is great with usb2 class compliant audio devices, is that any >>device working with Apple iPad will work out of the box with >Linux. > >That's nice. OTOH the cheapest RME USB device seems to be the >Babyface. It's much more expensive than the HDSPe AIO PCIe card >and RME >hides minimal buffer sizes for the Babyface, but the HDSPe AIO is >advertised with buffer sizes. Why do they hide the buffer sizes? > >However, you pay for the card plus the new total mix, a mixer >seemingly >similar to mixbus. It's not available for Linux, so pay for Mixbus >or a >similar solution too. > >I wonder if the class compilant modus even allows to use the aged >total >mix we know as hdspmixer? > >One reason to use FLOSS is that a lot is available for free as in >beer, >unfortunately software is bundled with the hardware, IOW you pay >for >what you need, but can't use it with Linux. For Linux there aren't >FLOSS solutions to replace what you already bought. > >Linux became a bottomless pit. > >Your goal to make an Ubuntu independent Linux audio distro to >provide >something that can compete better to proprietary solutions is the >wrong >track. Hardware companies already bundle what users need and they >usually provide it for Apple and Microsoft based systems only. An >exception is Behringer. Behringer nowadays seems to support Linux >platforms too, but Behringer is bottom quality, you even can't >unscrew, >repair/maintain and screw down Behringer gear without trouble. > >Hardware for Linux always was an issue and for audio it becomes a >more >serious issue at the moment. > >-- >ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list >[email protected] >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
