<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Rme has their own proprietary ways of dealing with usb quirks and providing error detection and correction, while keeping low latency. They do a pretty good job, but unfortunately, the details are not shared. <div><br></div><div>I’m personally quite fund of their (current range of) pcie cards on Linux (except madi-fx, which only has a work in progress driver on Linux - but rme can share the info to develop it further if anyone wants). The aio pro card has 2 analog ins and outs. If you need more, they have excellent ad-da converters that work flawlessly with the pcie cards on Linux (at least when using jack, which I always do, I have limited experience with using Alsa directly for audio I/o and none with soundwire - still on the todo list).</div><div>People looking into entering the world of ip audio, in particular Dante or avb, will appreciate their convertor boxes, esp. to madi. 0,7 msecs additional latency only. </div><div><br></div><div>But it will cost you more than 700 euros to get set up.</div><div><br></div><div>Best, ph<br><br><div dir="ltr">Philippe Bekaert</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">Op 14 jun. 2022 om 17:28 heeft Anders Hellquist <lau@hellquist.net> het volgende geschreven:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Motu AVB Interface are class complaint and can be managed over ethernet, has onboard mixer for local channels as well as AVB streams.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In theory, an optimal solution that can scale up to hundreds of channels as well as hundreds of meters.. but in practice, not so.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The USB implementation is buggy and to get it nice and stable, you need a very old firmware (which doesn't always work on newer revisions) or a kernel patch.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have 3 Motu AVB devices but I cannot recommend them for linux usage.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 14, 2022, 16:10 Peter P. <<a href="mailto:peterparker@fastmail.com">peterparker@fastmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi list,<br> <br> * Brandon Hale <<a href="mailto:bthaleproductions@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bthaleproductions@gmail.com</a>> [2022-06-14 15:24]:<br> [...]<br> > Now for the downside: it has its own proprietary software that doesn't exist<br> > on Linux for digital processing and mixing. Basically, the interface has its<br> > own mixing utility that also allows one to apply limited dsp effects and<br> > mix/route audio. If you wanted to stay solely on Linux, this cannot be used.<br> <br> That's the case with many USB audio interfaces in fact. I amquite<br> stubborn in this regard and don't want to pay for features that I will<br> not be able to use (especially sever with current RME devices). It is<br> hard to find multichannel class-compliant USB interfaces that don't<br> require some proprietary program. The Behringer umc1820 seems to be one. <br> <br> Anyone knows other such interfaces?<br> <br> best, P<br> _______________________________________________<br> Linux-audio-user mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org</a><br> <a href="https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user</a><br> </blockquote></div> <span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Linux-audio-user mailing list</span><br><span>Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org</span><br><span>https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>