Hi Harry, Hi Ralf,

Thank you for the fast answers.

Harry, in fact you did not quite answer question 1 : do I have to use hdsploader ? Put it another way, would the card be recognized if the firmware is not ok? This firmware question is not clear for me :  I fear to corrupt the card's windows firmware if I run hdsploader. Maybe that's completely wrong...

I agree that using amixer seems to be a horrible way to work, but I could not manage to get anything out of hdspmixer... There is no way to change the routes it loads by default ! clicking on the playback labels doesn't allow to check or uncheck existing boxes.

This is why I wonder if there isn't anything wrong with my setup, namely : would the use of hdsploader change hdspmixer's behaviour ?

Thank you

François

Le 11/12/2014 17:03, Harry van Haaren a écrit :
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:49 PM, francois juigner <francois.juigner@bluewin.ch> wrote:
1 - is it compulsory to use hdsploader, even if the card is recognized ?
HdspLoader and HdspMixer are two programs that will intereact with the RME devices: the first provides the firmware it needs to run, the second interacts with the device just like amixer, only provides a sane GUI :D

Basically, since the RME has a routing matrix built-in, using amixer will provide every single control, which will be a totally horrible way to work. Since HdspMixer provides a good way to interact with the sub-mixes, its advised ;)

HTH, -Harry

PS: I have a Multiface 2, so my experience might be slightly different to yours with the AIO. 

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Le 11/12/2014 18:26, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :

I bought the HDSPe AIO in May 2011, after it was recommended on this
list or LAD. Until today 3 1/2 years later I never could get it working
correctly using hdspmixer on Linux. To test the sound card I installed
FreeBSD first and then Windows XP. The sound card isn't broken and I
know how to handle totalmix under Windows. However, I'm only using
Linux and so assumed you should find out how to get all 8 ADAT IOs
accessible by jackd, please let me know. On my machine only ADAT
channel 1 and 2 are available by jackd.

Regards,
Ralf

S: Assumed you want to use a frequency > 48 KHz, then you first need to
select it using alsamixer, before you can start jackd.