[LAU] JACK, Qjackctl, and ffado

[Anders Hellquist]

Thanks.

That basically means the ff800 is pretty useless without ffado. Controlling
the matrix and onboard mixer and the rest of the features are a necessity
usually. If the latency is far worse, it is a deal breaker in itself.

/Anders

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 13:39 David Runge <dave at sleepmap.de wrote:

> On 2019-04-20 00:51:00 (+0200), Anders Hellquist wrote:
> > Fireface 800 (Have not used it)
>
> With current kernels, the Fireface 800 is supported by the ALSA drivers,
> but no controls are exposed (through ffado-mixer you get full control
> though) and it's also not possible to run it equally well as with FFADO
> (e.g. only 512 frames, instead of 64 frames @48kHz).
>
> This at least was my experience on a 5.0.7 Linux kernel, so I had to
> blacklist the snd-fireface driver (otherwise you get very weird errors,
> if you don't expect it ;-) ).
> With no hardmix control and higher latencies, for that device the ALSA
> driver doesn't seem to be a great solution (yet). FFADO works great
> though.
>
> --
> https://sleepmap.de
>
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