[LAU] E-MU 1820M alsa support

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 15:05:32 EDT 2008


Thanks, Darren. I think that pretty much clears it up. I'm going with
Echo Layla3G

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Darren Landrum
<darren.landrum at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Brad Fuller wrote:
>>
>> wow, no one has an E-MU 1820? I'm surprised. Maybe I should check the
>> -dev group.
>> It's between an E-MU 1820 and a Layla3G. Both seem to be about equal in
>> caps.
>
> Well, I have an Emu 1212M, which I guess is the closest you're going to get.
> They use the same driver, though, as far as I know, so I might be able to
> answer your questions.
>
> In general, how does the 1212M play with ALSA? It does well enough if all
> you need is the audio ins and outs. As far as I know, the outputs are still
> limited to 16 bits (the inputs can run at 24 bit) because the driver is not
> finished yet. I've also been unable to get MIDI in working (in Ubuntu Studio
> 64 Hardy Heron), even though I can see the MIDI in ports from kjackctl. I
> need to flip back over to Windows and test MIDI there (where it was working
> at one time) to make sure it's not a hardware issue.
>
> I don't know if the guy working on the driver still is, or what progress he
> has made since I last checked up on it.
>
> Another issue I run into is the lack of support in the driver for
> automatically resampling output (I run the clock at 44.1khz). I have to make
> sure the audio software I use is able to support its own output resampling.
> This is less big of a deal, as I plan to do all of my production at 44.1,
> but I do have the odd mp3 encoded at 48khz for whatever odd reason. Aqualung
> has solved this for me, though.
>
> If you have any more specific questions, feel free to fire them off at me,
> and I'll do the best I can to answer them.
>
> Regards,
> Darren Landrum
>
>



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