Robin Gareus writes: Would there be any value to also link pointers to on lins sourcecode for these, when available? e.g. My recent poking around re the Yamaha XS has source at http://www.yamahasynth.com/download/source/motifxs/ Janina -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina@a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina(a)a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org

Ho, ho, ho. Is it Christmas in May? Here's mlan source! Janina

Am Montag, 28. Mai 2007 schrieb Joshua Boyd: /me is waiting for ppalmers to include this in ffado! Imagine plugin your linux-laptop directly into any Yamaha/mlan-product. :-) Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 22:14 +0200, Pieter Palmers wrote: Something like this perhaps? http://www.mlancentral.com/ http://www.mlancentral.com/images/MY16-mLAN-home.jpg The new MY16-mLAN interface card offers transfer of up to 16 channels of digital audio plus MIDI data over a single IEEE1394-standard cable. This mini YGDAI plug-in card brings mLAN compatibility to digital mixing consoles 01V96, DM1000, 02R96, and DM2000. MORE http://www.mlancentral.com/potm.php There is a window of opportunity here to set a standard. Will Yamaha grab it, or do they believe so much in their own supremacy so it will fail under the weight of bureaucracy? Also, what is Roland up to these days with USB 2.0? On a user level it would be an advantage if they would produce something that has a near identical specification to mLAN, so that we can just plug in the stuff and connect without worrying too much about the underlying protocols. I notice that Roland these days are also getting heavily into video and FX with their pro-gear, but still, it should be possible to present the audio as a seperate, well-defined entity. --

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 08:15:37AM -0700, Mike Taht wrote: I've been reading their promotional material. Fascinating stuff. Each segment of the console is actually a seperate system and they are connected together via MidasNET. MidasNET is a combination of Sony's SuperMAC (AES50) and HyperMAC connections. Midas claims that competing equipment using those two standards will be able to seemlessly trade audio with the XL8. AES50 allows for ethernet to be run on top of it. This could include a regular home grown linux audio workstation if you bought an ASI6416 card for it from Audio Science. They (ASI) say that linux drivers are available for the card. For other cards from them, they give you both ALSA drivers and a proprietary SDK as well. Anyway, in the XL8, I would imagine that linux is only used for the ethernet communications, driving the displays, and reading the control surfaces. I would think that to get the latencies they advertise, the audio would pretty well only be handled by FGPAs and/or dedicated DSP chips. Keep in mind that since each segment is seperate, this would actually mean five linux systems. Perhaps more could be inferred from the source code releases from Midas. The question was brought up almost a year ago, but I don't see any answer to where to find the source in the archives. Maybe they just include it on a CD bundled in with the consoles themselves.