[linux-audio-user] EMI 6|2m

[Werner Johansson]

Well, the issue with the Emagic cards is that they are not USB
Audio-compliant when initially powered on, the only thing it can do is to
receive a "soft" firmware from the host computer, and this firmware handles
the USB Audio interface (the USB interface chip that Emagic uses has this
loader functionality built in, and it's easier to have the driver supply the
firmware than to have it stored in flash memory in the Emagic box). I use
the 2|6 myself (more or less the reverse of yours, two inputs and 6 outputs,
no midi though), and that card has got it's firmware loader built into the
later kernels (late 2.4, all 2.5), but I haven't seen anything about the
6|2m... Ofcourse there has to be a different firmware loaded - this will
have to be supplied from Emagic (see http://www.vtoy.fi/~tapio/emi26.html
for the text about 2|6. When there's firmware out it would be trivial to add
that to the same Emagic loader code already in the kernel for the 2|6..

I really like the 2|6, down to 64-sample periods even with all 8 channels
driven (44.1kHz 16-bit * 6 output and 44.1kHz 16-bit input * 2).

/Werner

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Hauptmann" <m.hauptmann at web.de>
To: <linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] EMI 6|2m


> Thank you, Frank!
>
> I insmodded snd-usb-audio but lsmod says, it is unused.
>
> I am an absolute beginner concerning multichannel recording.
>
> I do not even know how to recognize if it really works. I tried
> audacity, but it looks to me that it only knows 2-channel recording. But
> it doesn't even record with them with the emi 6|2m-box (which is ok,
> because the module is unused).
>
> How can I make it work?
>
> Please tell me.
>
> Martin
>
> Am Mit, 2003-07-23 um 16.12 schrieb Frank Barknecht:
> > Hallo,
> > Martin Hauptmann hat gesagt: // Martin Hauptmann wrote:
> >
> > > I bought a used emi 6|2m from Emagic. It has 6 inputs and 2 outputs.
But
> > > I found no linux-driver/kernel-module for that device. There is a
kernel
> > > module for the emi 2|6 but it does not work for the 6|2m.
> > >
> > > Has someone experiences with that device under linux? Please tell me.
> >
> > Install ALSA and use the snd-usb-audio module. Should work out of the
> > box.
> >
> > ciao
>
>