26 Nov
2004
26 Nov
'04
10:07 a.m.
somehow a nice idea, i only see one problem:
firewire and usb audio devices are mainly used with laptops, whih
normaly have only one ethernet port. if you have a desktop, you could
also use a pci audio card.
what about usb 2.0 audio cards? has firewire any advantage? big
disadvantage with firewire for x86 laptops: they mostly have 4 pin
firewire port, so always need external power for the firewire audio device.
Bob Knight wrote:
I want an open ethernet audio device.
I do not want or need to deal with pci, firewire, usb.
Use one of many controllers out there with a good embedded
linux port and build in ethernet. Use a TDM or GPIO type
interface for the analog side of the world.
TDMoE would work just fine for audio.
One thing that linux does well these days is ethernet.
I need a minimum of 32 channels for live recording.
The idea would be to just suck in the ethernet frames and write them
to disk. Then mix them down back in the studio after the show.
I am a noop (programmer) with a EE back ground and would glad to
help anyone build something like this.