Re: [LAU] Motu 1248 - Full success - Linux-audio-user

13 May 2017

I just bought a couple of Ultralite AVBs the other day since I got a really
good offer.
Have not received them yet so I have not tested them.

I have been following for some time the development of the openAVB project
and I really hope this standard is getting more widely spread.

What I cannot understand (well I can understand but not embrace) is the
fact that every vendor except AVB-switch vendors have their own
implementation and by design make their products compatible only with its
own brand. The point with a standard is IMHO to make products able to talk
to each other. Motu apparently enabled talking to some Avid
 equipment some time ago with a new firmware but non-Avid brands are not
compatible AFAIK.

I guess this is only marketing trying to protect their own brand more than
a pure technical decision but correct me if I am wrong.

Do you guys think that AVB devices "firmware" easily cold be changed by the
vendor to accept and cooperate with other avb streaming equipment ?

Do you think it is possible to reverse engineer the vendor specific
protocols like for instance the FFADO project has been doing with firewire
to make future openAVB implementations for the linux kernel if one is using
appropriate hardware (intel i210 or similar) ? Or is this already possible ?

Best regards, Anders

2017-05-12 22:09 GMT+02:00 list &lt;list(a)contacte.xyz&gt;yz>:

...
  Hello.

 Thank you for your report on this 1248.

 I've made the report on the ULTRALITE AVB in march.
 [http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/
 2017-March/107629.html]
 I've finally bought one, and since 1 month, it runs without any
 troubles.

 I think it's safe to say that the AVB serie (1248 / 624 / ULTRALITE) is
 working  for Gnu/Linux.

 I'm maybe missed it, but which distro are you running this card on ?

 Did you register your product on MOTU web site, and add a comment that
 you running it with Gnu/Linux. I like to believe that each voice
 count :)

 Le Thu, 11 May 2017 21:17:23 +0200,
 Moshe Werner &lt;moshwe(a)gmail.com&gt; a écrit :

  While playing guitar and singing I didn't
feel any
 of this annoying delay that you sometimes get when the latency is bad. 
 You surely see that, but you can, thanks to the routing matrix, have
 near 0 latency on hardware monitoring while recording (guitar/vocal)
 nothing goes through the computer. You also have to set the option in
 your DAW to use hardware monitoring.

  To summarize I'm feeling that we are moving
in the right direction
 here... I hope other manufacturers will follow and make Interfaces
 and software that work with Linux... 
 Yeah ! But like Len Ovens said on the ULTRALITE report, it's more «side
 effect» of IOS...than a real Gnu/Linux support. They just repected USB
 CLASS audio  «standard» [lot of other brands claim to be Class
 compliant, but you do not have the softwares to control the card, so
 useless ] and embedded the usually softwares they ship for Win/Mac
 inside the card. Anyway it work !

 Cheers

 Moshe 
 All the best !

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