[alsa-devel] [PATCH] hdspm: native float

[John Rigg]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:41:59PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 02:12:21PM +0200, Florian Faber wrote:
> 
> > > > It is a global change. The only use case is for jack, and jack doesn't
> > > > use different formats for input/output.
> > > "Using aplay + arecord" is a second use case.  :-)
> 
> > And they would willingly choose different formats?
> 
> A moderately common case is recording voice quality audio (at 8kHz or
> so) and playing back higher quality audio.

Perhaps a little less common on a 64-channel MADI interface
like this :-)

John