31 Mar
2008
31 Mar
'08
6:30 a.m.
Pieter Palmers wrote:
Ahh, then the rumors ARE true... had to ask, but 30yrs wait time ;) Technically I
guess it's not really a clone though... I'm afraid it's
going to be only a 50% genetic match. And as you might know that can
make a huge difference :).
I will have to give that a try :)
S/PDIF on the firepod should work when using FFADO. You can even install
FFADO only for it's device control capabilities (clock source, mixer
settings) and then run jack with the freebob backend for stable streaming.
Sorry, I was thinking out loud. S/PDIF - even FFADO - is beside the
point re my pod. The sync light glow's blue, never changes & syncs to
nothing. Use to sync up every 10th or 50th power cycle & stay a while,
but those days are gone. As an interface it's worthless.
Perhaps it's just as well, my knowledge of linux is straight up flimzy.
The only thing I 1/2-way understand is the pod problem.
sevol wrote:
Excellent! This is great news & really better than hoped, even counting
Focurite's full support. I'll take this chance & congradulate you early
on these non-GMO babies, whatever the due date :) Hope the Mackie, Echo,
& other vendor supported stuff is working out too.
Pieter Palmers wrote:
All input/output gain controls and configuration switches that are
provided by the saffire control panel on other OS'es are supported in
the FFADO codebase. We have control panels for all of the Saffire
devices, and they are fully featured (except for the DSP stuff on the
saffire white). There might be some bugs in them, but we have all info
to fix them. The only thing you shouldn't expect is a fancy GUI... it's
all very basic PyQT rapid prototyping stuff, but it works. If someone
wants to tackle the GUI side of things, please do. The current prototype
gui's illustrate how to use the control interface.
sevol wrote:
I'm not really disappointed - hadn't given the DSP stuff much chance
of use atm. If/When the time comes, native has got to be better.
Somehow the plugins thing hijacked my thoughts. In fact, certain other
issues seem more critical & pressing. Like, the front on the LE has 4
nice knobs: 2 level controls for frontside inputs 1 & 2; 1 for levels
of backside Main outs 1 & 2; & 1 for headphone levels. That seems to
leave a lot of input & output control unaccounted for, except via the
Saffire Control LE software GUI.
& this would be a no-show in Linux, right? I guess the 2 analogue
line/instrument-in levels on back can be controllrd by, if existant,
volume knobs on whatever devices are connecting to them. So, maybe
that's covered. & sample rates will probably be handled by JACK/JACKCTRL.
Then though, the MIDI Through is activated by a software switch. & the
High Gain switches for Instrument level sources is software
controlled. The S/PDIF external sync switch, likewise, & the same
situation as the nonworking S/PDIF input of the Firepod. A lot of the
output & mixing capabilities are based in software too. Is there going
to be a way to manage these? Full details not necessary, but could you
reveal the gist of what'll be lost? Hi People,
I'm thinking of getting one of the Saffire audio interfaces from
Focusrite. Anyone on the list using these units & happy with the
results? This, a little off-topic & subjective: happy with the pres
& conversion?
The SaffireLE,
http://www.focusrite.com/products/saffire/saffire_le/
, is the one I'm eyeing. As far as I can tell it's very similar to
the Saffire,
http://www.focusrite.com/products/saffire/saffire/
, only with 6 in/8 out compared to 4 in/10 out, & minus the
hardwar-powered plug-ins. I like having 2 more ins, & wont miss 2
less outs. & I imagined the plug-ins, ahreware-powered or software
woulkd be useless under Linux. But the recent thread on the M-Audio
Profire 2626 leads me to believe, maybe the times are changing.
I personally think
times are changing, but change is slow...
I'm curious whether the DSP plugins might
work in linux with FFADO.
Actually, true functionality of any of these models seem to require
software to adjust settings, so, what limitations are people
noticing right now running these in Linux? & will the pending beta
release of FFADO address the Saffire plug-in Suite hardware-powered
use & whatever other issues there are, if there are? Or is this a
Wine solution?
As things stand now, there are no plans to support the
saffire's
internal plugins. And if I do support for any (hardware or software)
plugins related to these devices, I'll do whatever I can to make them
native instead of WINE. Last, is
anyone working on a clone of Pieter Palmers? That'd be
pretty useful...
I am. Still have about 30years of tweaking ahead though :).
Pieter
Thanks for the info,
sevol
p.s. Just read Andrew's message on the Freebob-devel list & see that
the S/PDIF capabilities are looking better, at least with FFADO
testing on the firepod. Hmmm... Greets,
Pieter
best of luck,
sevol