Behringer [was Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME is no more]

[Marek Peteraj]

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