[linux-audio-user] Re: Apogee Ensemble with Ardour

[Lee A. Azzarello]

----- Carlo Capocasa <capocasa at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi Lee! Considered that... Well, I would like to have that 192kHz
> option
> and the Fireface 800 would have to be reverse-engineered by the
> driver
> people as far as I know. Also, it does approach Apogee pricing so
> I'll
> probably just wait for 'The Real Thing'... But thanks for the hin

I think that firewire audio is only recently supported with the freebob package. I would recommend the RME Hammerfall PCI card, which IIRC has ALSA drivers in the kernel:
http://www.rme-audio.com/english/hdsp/cardpci.htm#PCI

-lee