Yo, back on Wednesday 05 May 2010 Pau Arumà was all like:
Thanks for the quick answer Florian!
Pau!
is the RME HDSPe AES supported by alsa? And would
is be as reliable
as
the Hammerfall 9652?
Remy Bruno added support for the hdspm driver in 2006. I have never
tested it, but I know of a few people that use it.
Why didn't you ask me yesterday?
Yes I could have asked you at LAC - only that the requirement for
interfacing with AES popped up just today :-)
So will buy this card and see how it works.
P
I built a box for a friend a few years back using the PCI version of the AES. Works fine,
but the part that sucks is there is no GUI tool to set the matrix send levels or show the
dsp meters. There is only a small CLI demo tool for setting and retrieving matrix send
levels. Kind of a pain in the ass to deal with.
On the upside, ALSA exposes all 64 matrix inputs that are available for the matrix. I
believe (not for sure) that on windows systems, only the first 16 are exposed. So instead
of the advertized 16x16 matrix, you have a 64x16 matrix.
-Reuben