7 Nov
2009
7 Nov
'09
10:14 a.m.
On Saturday 07 November 2009 12:06:20 Hartmut Noack wrote:
Arnold Krille schrieb:
They aren't all big. The Focusrite Saffire PRO24 is rather small, bus-powered
(if you want) but still has lots of inputs. And without the DSP it is not that
much money for what you get.
Firewire is the only thing where you can have
high number of channels and
even more then one device on one connection. And work for supporting
almost all devices except for Motu is quite advanced thanks to support
from the vendors.
So these big beasts seem to be the only alternative... I can only hope, that the distributors wake up and put
some of their
big-company-weight (and errrmm maybe some of their money?) into that.
But they seem to be totally unaware of something like a need for
pro-audio-support for Linux. - What a misconception! Every OS out there
that qualifies as "full grown" offers support for everything any user
today does on a PC. MS and Apple do not ignore audio-needs just because
audio-producers are only a small percentage of the userbase.
The SuseAG showed some insight on this as they put the alsa-people on
their payroll and set up a certified-for-linux programme for
multimedia-devices that made Linux visible to companies like Terratec.
As a result we now have perfect support for envy24-cards.
But NOVELL cut these efforts. And other distributors, that proudly claim
"We love the desktop-user!"? They do not much more than to gracefully
accept a halfhearted integration of the unpaid efforts of free devs in
the backyards of their repos...
I really wonder what can be done to change this...
Actually Redhat employees are helping on making ffado run on the new firewire-
stack through libraw1394...
And TC electronics did give some financial support too. Only it was not enough
to pay ppalmers full-time, so he had to take a job.
Arnold