[linux-audio-user] Firewire devices and Linux

[Pieter Palmers]

Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:52:21PM +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote:
> 
>>At 16:13 +0200 12/5/06, Pieter Palmers wrote:
>>
>>>http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.php/List_of_Supported_Devices
>>>to see what we support.
>>
>>hey, it looks like the whole audio setup for my linux rig just got a 
>>heck of a lot easier .. i just confirmed that this works great on my 
>>MEPIS laptop (Dell) and Presonus FirePOD (which i love) firewire 
>>audio interface, so this is really great news for me!  well done, 
>>freeBob'ers!
>>
>>(PS Yo'av: the firepod is a lovely audio interface, btw .. it may not 
>>be in the 350bux budget, but maybe it is, if you shop around, 
>>affordable after all..)
> 
> 
> Looks to be about $600 US, not bad for the feature set 
> (8 mic inputs).
> 
> I might pick up one of these. Jay, what kind of latency are you getting
> with it?
> 

The current freebob code + recent firmware should give you around 
350frames of latency at 44100/48000 (about 7ms). Round trip including AD 
/ DA, measured using jdelay.


Pieter