Interesting.

My comment about the Apple/Protools was my assumption based on little research. I avoid Apple products completely now that I'm out of the corporate world...read completely ignore. So thanks for the info.

But, I use Ubuntu Studio. In 20.04 they have basically dropped support for things like ffado.

I've gone round and round trying to get the FW cards to work in 18.x and 19.x.

It is hard to find interface boards for FW, let alone the ones with TI chipsets that work correctly.

So, I've kinda given up trying...especially since I don't really need them for what I do anymore.

Maybe they work better with alsa. But, last I tried that didn't seem to play nice and I don't know of a low level control interface (like ffado-mixer) to configure them.

Admittedly, after fussing with them for a month or so last year, I just haven't looked at them since.

Mac

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 10:33 AM Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 6:27 AM Mac <macdroid53@gmail.com> wrote:
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> If this is not allowed, board ops please feel free to remove.
>
> I'm guessing, since firewire support in Linux is moving into the sunset, that this may be of more interest to the Apple/Protools people. But, Linux is my focus, so I figured I'd offer here in case there are still some Linux holdouts. ;)

You have this backwards.

It was Apple that announced no more firewire interfaces on their
hardware. There is no active development of firewire support for macOS
whatsoever. It was Apple that basically shut down any future for
firewire by announcing their complete abandonment of it. Nobody makes
new firewire audio interfaces now, and that's entirely at Apple's
feet.

On Linux, where the support for firewire audio interfaces has been a
bit patchy, things are actually slowly improving, and you will
continue to be able to use firewire audio interfaces on this platform
for as long as you wish.