RE: FireWire or USB 2.0 audio interfaces, was Re: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USB audio interface for Linux?
24 Mar
2006
24 Mar
'06
10:14 a.m.
===== Original Message From Ismael Valladolid Torres
<ivalladolidt(a)terra.es>
=====
Are FireWire (IEEE-1394) audio interfaces supported by
ALSA? If the
answer is *no* then do USB 2.0 audio interfaces make use of full speed?
From what I've gathered, no USB 2.0 audio are currently supported as there is
no USB 2.0 standard for audio USB devices (please correct me if I am wrong).
Regarding Firewire (IEEE-1394), apparently Freebob is pretty darn close to
getting stuff to work (they even have some reports stating that audio works
just fine on select devices). See
http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page for more info.
Best wishes,
Ico
24 Mar
24 Mar
1:21 p.m.
New subject: FireWire or USB 2.0 audio interfaces, was Re: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USB audio interface for Linux?
Regarding Firewire (IEEE-1394), apparently Freebob is
pretty darn
close to getting stuff to work (they even have some reports stating
that audio works just fine on select devices). See
http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page for more info.
As the jackd backend works they currently want to write an ALSA driver
and are looking for people who help working on it. Any volunteers?
Best regards
ce
1:44 p.m.
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From: linux-audio-user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-
user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Christoph Eckert
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 12:22 PM
To: A list for linux audio users
Subject: Re: FireWire or USB 2.0 audio interfaces,was Re: [linux-audio-
user] What is currently the best USBaudio interface for Linux?
That is great news!
Do you happen to know if the MIDI sync issue is now resolved?
Ico
Regarding Firewire (IEEE-1394), apparently
Freebob is pretty darn
close to getting stuff to work (they even have some reports stating
that audio works just fine on select devices). See
http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page for more info.
As the jackd backend works they currently want to write an ALSA driver
and are looking for people who help working on it. Any volunteers?
1:58 p.m.
New subject: FireWire or USB 2.0 audio interfaces, was Re: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USBaudio interface for Linux?
That is great news!
True :) .
Do you happen to know if the MIDI sync issue is now
resolved?
no, I still have no firewire device so I didn't dive into details. But
I'm constantly lurking the freebob project for unknown reasons ;-) .
Best regards
ce
2:13 p.m.
New subject: FireWire or USB 2.0 audio interfaces, was Re: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USBaudio interface for Linux?
no, I still have no firewire device so I didn't
dive into details. But
I'm constantly lurking the freebob project for unknown reasons ;-) .
Yeah, right, "unknown" :-)
Ico
7 p.m.
New subject: FireWire or USB 2.0 audio interfaces, was Re: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USBaudio interface for Linux?
2006/3/24, Christoph Eckert <ce(a)christeck.de>de>:
But
I'm constantly lurking the freebob project for unknown reasons ;-) .
/me has already decided that the next audio-interface (>1year away)
will be fw supported by freebob...
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7:17 p.m.
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But
I'm constantly lurking the freebob project for unknown reasons ;-)
.
/me has already decided that the next audio-interface (>1year away)
will be fw supported by freebob... 
7:51 p.m.
New subject: FireWire or USB 2.0 audio interfaces, was Re: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USBaudio interface for Linux?
/me has already decided that the next audio-interface
(>1year away)
will be fw supported by freebob...
I'm interested when FW interfaces will reach latencies of pci ones.
MOTU 828 (firewire) on Mac's has 288 samples of latency. Better than
freebob's but still a bit worse than pci.
My Delta44 has 186-sample latency in 2x64 buffer setup.
It matters when you do realtime processing.
8:04 p.m.
New subject: FireWire or USB 2.0 audio interfaces, was Re: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USBaudio interface for Linux?
It matters when you do realtime processing.
I tried to use my Edirol UA-25 on a Mac, and the (felt) latency was
horrible when playing the guitar via garage band.
Best regards
ce
10:22 p.m.
New subject: FireWire or USB 2.0 audio interfaces, was Re: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USBaudio interface for Linux?
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 00:00 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote:
2006/3/24, Christoph Eckert <ce(a)christeck.de>de>:
1 year from now, many FW devices may be using the DICE chipset instead
of the BeBob stuff. i stress the *may* ...
--p
But
I'm constantly lurking the freebob project for unknown reasons ;-) .
/me has already decided that the next audio-interface (>1year away)
will be fw supported by freebob...
26 Mar
26 Mar
9:48 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: FireWire or USB 2.0 audio interfaces
1 year from now, many FW devices may be using the DICE
chipset
instead of the BeBob stuff. i stress the *may* ...
I'm not familiar with firewire details, but this raises two questions:
* Any resource where I can learn more about the differences?
* Is it impossible that FreeBob includes support for DICE chipsets?
Anyway, maybe a FreeBob devel will be at LAC and we can discuss this
further.
Best regards
ce
27 Mar
27 Mar
2:39 p.m.
New subject: FireWire or USB 2.0 audio interfaces, was Re: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USBaudio interface for Linux?
Arnold Krille wrote:
2006/3/24, Christoph Eckert <ce(a)christeck.de>de>:
/me is thinking of a Mackie onyx, but that's probably >2years away here.
http://www.mackie.com/products/onyx1220/index.html
-Eric Rz.
But
I'm constantly lurking the freebob project for unknown reasons ;-) .
/me has
already decided that the next audio-interface (>1year away)
will be fw supported by freebob...
2:56 p.m.
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/me is thinking of a Mackie onyx, but that's
probably >2years away
here.
http://www.mackie.com/products/onyx1220/index.html
at least it's supported by freebob.
Best regards
ce
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