29 Mar
2004
29 Mar
'04
11:43 a.m.
Steve,
Sorry to be a pest, but does the Hammerfall Lite fall right into
the box on Linux? If I'm seeing right there is not the possibility with
this card to have playback without a computer since it is nothing but
optical ports, with no 1/8" or 1/4" jacks? This Lite card is what I
have been leaning towards but want to be really sure about it because I
am researching a whole new setup based around a good optical card.
Just out of curiosity, what preamps and such do you interface to this
card with?
Mark Knecht:
You said that you didn't use the Lite card much under Linux but
that it worked ok, and sorry to be a pest here, but were there
deficiencies somewhere with this card that caused you to yank it out?
> I also own a Hammerfall Light. It worked under
Linux, but I didn;t
use it much. Some time ago I removed it and it's sitting on
my desk
begging for a machine to go into.
That wouldn't be a sales offer, would it? ;>)
Many thanks again,
gk
29 Mar
29 Mar
1:52 p.m.
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 06:36, Kent, Gary wrote:
Mark Knecht:
You said that you didn't use the Lite card much under Linux but
that it worked ok, and sorry to be a pest here, but were there
deficiencies somewhere with this card that caused you to yank it out?
More that I've almost totally given up on Linux being an audio platform
at all, and less any real major issues with the Hammerfall Light. Please
remember that this statement comes on the heels of a year of messing
with the HDSP9652.
The one small problem I did run into near the end was that ever since
this card had been in a studio box running PlanetCCRMA, the mapping had
been:
ADAT1 = pcm 1-8
ADAT2 = pcm 9-16
spdif = pcm 17-18
Then updates for Alsa 1.0.x came along and something in the mapping
changed on my system to: (from memory...)
spdif = pcm 1-2
ADAT1 = pcm 3-10
ADAT2 = pcm 11-18
It was a little weird, IIRC, like maybe the input mapping and the output
mapping weren't the same? I don't remember anymore. Anyway, I had lots
of scripts written for things like racks of meterbridges and a few soft
synths. They had worked for months. They stopped working correctly. I
reported it at least twice on Alsa-User and Alsa-Devel. I got no
responses and gave up. I decided I wasn't going to deal with it anymore
and pulled it out. It isn't worth my time required to fiddle like a
developer. I'd rather write music.
I hardly use Linux for audio anymore. I'll wait for Alsa 3.0. Linux in
my studio today is a really great email platform, but primarily I'm
using it to keep the rest of my studio clean. The one app I do hope will
come along one day soon is LinuxSampler. I've got a big investment in
libraries, but without a GUI it's not close to replacing GSt 2.5 or the
new 3.0.
I got a 3GHz laptop this weekend. In the process of buying it I took
along a Dyne:bolics disk to see what would happen. I was impressed that
Alsa came up and ran on this little onboard sound chip called a Sound
Max. I'd never heard of the chip, but I can play games under Linux and
get sound. That's cool.
That machine will be a new Pro Tools platform soon. My old Pro Tools box
will get the Hammerfall Light running Acid Pro & Reaktor later today.
- Mark
2:09 p.m.
Hi Gary,
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Steve,
Sorry to be a pest, but does the Hammerfall Lite
fall right into
the box on Linux? If I'm seeing right there is not
the possibility with
this card to have playback without a computer since
it is nothing but
optical ports, with no 1/8" or 1/4" jacks?
I own a digi9652. The card has three ADAT lightpipe
banks, one SPDIF, nine pin ADAT sync and wordclock.
This
Lite card is what I
have been leaning towards but want to be really sure
about it because I
am researching a whole new setup based around a good
optical card.
I am guessing you've got a mixer and are building a
studio. It's probably safe to suggest that you can
never have to much I/O. My RME card does not have MIDI
but I see the newer ones do. I think that's an
interesting feature because ADAT, wordclock and MIDI
are all on one card where they occupy one pci slot and
one IRQ. My experience is that I never have to many
pci slots. Having everything on one card just seems
ideal to me.
It's to bad some people are experiencing problems with
the newer HDSP card.
Just out of curiosity, what preamps and such do you
interface to this
card with?
I have a Tascam DM-24. I think you can buy them used
for $2,000.00 U.S. For the price, it's a great board.
Of course Tascam preamps and EQs have always sucked
which is one reason their boards are so inexpensive. I
"insert" the preamps/EQs from a Soundtrac Solo into
the Tascam.
I also have a couple Yamaha AW4416. Of course their
preamps and EQs are on a par with the DM-24 but their
A/D is even worse. I have clients who own HDD for
these things and when doing their sessions I route
Solo -> DM-24 (insert) -> AW4416.
Mark Knecht:
You said that you didn't use the Lite card much
under Linux but
that it worked ok, and sorry to be a pest here, but
were there
deficiencies somewhere with this card that caused
you to yank it out?
Does the Lite have wordclock? I think the digi9652 is
the digi9632 with a daughter board that has wordclock
and one more ADAT bank. The daughter board doesn't
require a pci slot but it does bolt into pci slot
chasis.
I get confused with the RME model names. The one I own
and am referring to is an older card. I've never had a
problem with its drivers.
ron
> I also own
a Hammerfall Light. It worked under
Linux, but I didn;t
use it much. Some time ago I removed it and it's
sitting on my desk
begging for a machine to go into.
That wouldn't be a sales offer, would it? ;>)
Many thanks again,
gk
2:45 p.m.
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 09:03, R Parker wrote:
Yes, I think you're right about the Digi9652 being a superset of the
Hammerfall Light. My Digi9636 (Hammerfall Light) does not have Word
Clock, so I use ADAT to sync it. IIRC there was an add on card for other
features, but I don't remember if WC is one of them.
Mark Knecht:
You said that you didn't use the Lite card much
under Linux but
that it worked ok, and sorry to be a pest here, but
were there
deficiencies somewhere with this card that caused
you to yank it out?
Does the Lite have wordclock? I think the digi9652 is
the digi9632 with a daughter board that has wordclock
and one more ADAT bank. The daughter board doesn't
require a pci slot but it does bolt into pci slot
chasis.
I get confused with the RME model names. The one I
own
and am referring to is an older card. I've never had a
problem with its drivers.
I don't remember which card is actually the 9632. I think you have to be
very German to like this RME naming scheme! ;-)
- Mark
ron
7:20 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:36:39 -0500, Kent, Gary wrote:
Steve,
Sorry to be a pest, but does the Hammerfall Lite fall right into
the box on Linux? If I'm seeing right there is not the possibility with
this card to have playback without a computer since it is nothing but
optical ports, with no 1/8" or 1/4" jacks? This Lite card is what I
Yes, its digital only - mine is connected to an 01v mixer with an ADAT
card in it.
- Steve
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