Re: [alsa-devel] RME HDSPe AIO
Flo,
Why do you say "No. This is a pro audio card and it's full potential cannot be used with ALSA."? What is there in Alsa that will restrict the use of the card (or any card) for pro audio use?
The Trinnov room correction system which is a pro market product uses Hammerfall cards and Alsa to do some very ambitious pro audio functions for example.
Demian Martin Product Design Services
-----Original Message----- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:44:04 +0100 From: Florian Faber faber@faberman.de Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] RME HDSPe AIO To: Jonathan Leonard jonathan.adams.leonard@gmail.com Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Message-ID: 4AF71F84.6090405@faberman.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Jonathan,
The AIO is purported to be very similar to the 9632 and should be using the snd-hdsp module.
No. It has the hdspe core and should be used as such.
I would like to use this card in ALSA,
That's nice, but you should have checked before buying the card. The AIO is not supported.
Besides my individual circumstance I wonder if ALSA should not be accomodating this great card somehow.
No. This is a pro audio card and it's full potential cannot be used with ALSA.
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Demian,
The Trinnov room correction system which is a pro market product uses Hammerfall cards and Alsa to do some very ambitious pro audio functions for example.
It is nice if everything works out for you. But there are other people who need different things.
Flo
Florian, why can't you answer his technical question with specifics? What in ALSA prevents professional use? There is a culture out there that 'worships' whatever professional means without ever defining it. It is elitism and in a technical forum unforgivable. Lets leave culture out of driver discussions ok? I asked for information about how to make the AIO work in ALSA and I have received ZERO useful information and instead got discouraging and arrogant responses. I feel like I am being neutralized here. The soundcard matrix contains no entries for the AIO, so one can only conclude ambiguity.
I am willing to try and help, but without useful information it is difficult to proceed.
The HDSPe hostcard works great with the multiface. I am working on the assumption that if the card can be identified differently, there will be a similar level of functionality. There is also the benefit of hdspmixer and hdspconf, both which work fine with HDSPe hostcard and multiface. If there is a reason this is not appropriate, technically, that can be validated I would like to hear it. Otherwise if ALSA and the operating system can be adjusted to load the snd-hdsp module instead, I would like to know how to make this accommodation and how to compile ALSA to make this possible. I have great hopes for a snd-hdspm module that will support all the new gear, but that may never happen. In the meantime, I think it is acceptable to use the existing module even if it is not perfect. If perfection were a requirement ALSA would not have gotten very far and neither would science.
So again I will try and ask the experts of ALSA development how to make these accommodations.
jonathan adams leonard
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Florian Faber faber@faberman.de wrote:
Demian,
The Trinnov room correction system which is a pro market product uses Hammerfall cards and Alsa to do some very ambitious pro audio functions
for
example.
It is nice if everything works out for you. But there are other people who need different things.
Flo
Florian Faber wrote:
Demian,
The Trinnov room correction system which is a pro market product uses Hammerfall cards and Alsa to do some very ambitious pro audio functions for example.
It is nice if everything works out for you. But there are other people who need different things.
Flo
Florian,
How do users of this card benefit from alsa not supporting this card? Which special features of the card is alsa not able to support?
Thanks,
Pavel.
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