[linux-audio-user] RME Multiface II report

[Jesse Chappell]

On 8/29/06, Dmitry Baikov <dsbaikov at gmail.com> wrote:

> 6) More of a question: why alsamixer does not support hdsp? hdspmixer
> functionality do not look too complex for alsamixer.

Actually, parts of it are a lot more complex than alsamixer because of
the HDSP's full matrix mixer.  Furthermore, a limitation with the
hardware prevents the querying of the matrix mixer values, so the app
that controls it has to fully set up all values in order to know what
is going on.  hdspmixer does that.  Thomas Charbonnel, the author of
hdspmixer (and a lot of the hdsp alsa driver)  planned to write a
server or an API to support it so multiple apps could control it
simultaneously, but he has disappeared from the scene.

jlc