25 Nov
2004
25 Nov
'04
5:55 p.m.
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 20:50, Florin Andrei wrote:
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 04:22 -0500, Rick B wrote:
> I kind of got the impression that the annoucement was just pertaining to
> RME *Firewire* audio interfaces.
Consider that they have released some specs for their HDSP hammerfall
series, which uses a *proprietary* firewire protocol and that their
latest PC products were based on IEEE1394 except one or two PCI based
cards.
That's what i thought. "RME is no more" seems a bit exagerated (although
i feel for the person who bought the card thinking it's supported by the
Linux drivers).
I don't think it's exagerated, see explanation above.
I knew exactly it wasn't at the time i bought it, i just took it for
granted. I talked to Thomas Charbonnel back in april at the ZKM and it
seemed that they were positive about alsa support for fireface.
Anyway, beyond Linux support tribulations, the RME Fireface is a great
card. I just read a review in the international Dec 2004 edition of
Sound On Sound - it's really cool. It has all the things that i wish the
Multiface had.
I can only agree with that. But that's even worse for us then. ;)
Sadly, if there's no support for Linux, i guess i won't buy it. It's not
like the world ends with RME or anything.
Well it's close to such situation in the linux pro-audio world. The two
major players in pro-audio hw market that supported ALSA development if
only indirectly by providing specs, were m-audio and... rme.
Have a look at the ALSA matrix, it's a pretty sad situation.
The only *real* hw manufacturer in my eyes is audioscience, they provide
their own ALSA drivers(that's how it should be) but produce only
broadcast cards.
Marek