Re: [linux-audio-user] Anyone using multiface+cardbus?

Yes, I've been using it with ecasound for field recording and with ardour for mixing and editing. (Other HDSP users are also using ardour for tracking.) Usually I use it with external converters (through the ADAT inputs); but the Multiface's internal converters really aren't too bad. I don't use MIDI much, but it seems to work OK after some recent patches (there's been some recent, so far unresolved, discussion on alsa-devel about a low-incidence stuck note issue on the HDSP 9652 MIDI IN, but I don't know if this affects the HDSP/Multiface). Not any more: Paul Davis just released a patch to hdsp.c to support rev 11 firmware, but I suspect that hasn't made it to CVS yet. As with any real-time PC Card device, the big issue is getting the IRQs set up the way you want: you'll have to fiddle with your BIOS to convince it to give the HDSP interface a dedicated IRQ. (I also had problems with occasional huge xruns until I disabled CPU speed switching on my mobile P3.) -- Roger Williams <raw(a)qux.com> Qux Tool & Die, Middleborough, Massachusetts // Omne tulit punctum qui misquit utile dulci //