[alsa-devel] M-audio Audiophile Firewire

[Takashi Sakamoto]

On Oct 22 2016 18:35, Peti Pap wrote:
> My current Windows driver details;
> (M-audio Firewire control panel)
>
> Panel: 5.10.0.5058
> Driver: 5.10.0.5058
> Bootloader: 2003/10/06 10:00:41
> Firmware: 2007/05/04 10:22:12
> Hardware: model: D version: 1
> GUID: 000D-6C03-00D9-5B38

You can use firmware version 5061, too. Anyway, ALSA bebob driver can
drive your unit.

On Oct 23 2016 01:33, Peti Pap wrote:
> I installed:
> Linux Mint 18 64 bit
> Low Latency Kernel 4.8
> Tracktion T5

Aha. You use Tracktion for Linux. I like it.

> In Tracktion -> Settings -> Audio Decives menü I can select between ALSA
> and JACK audio device types
> When I select ALSA I can choose 2 FW audiophile stuff;
> 1. "FW Audiophile, FW Audiophile PCM; direct sample mixing device"
> 2. ""FW Audiophile, FW Audiophile PCM; direct hardware device without any
> conversions"

Good. You can see ALSA PCM nodes for your unit.

> I can enable/disable the channels too (I enabled 1+2 channel) and I
set the
> Default wave output
> The sample rate 48kHz
>
> But still no green light (only the blue LED lighting by the power button),
> and no any sound... :\

When the power LED turns at green color instead blinking, ALSA bebob
driver successfully makes the unit to load firmware.

The rest is to configure routing of internal DSP. Just after loading
firmware, no DSP sources are connected to outputs. For this purpose, you
can use ffado-dbus-server/ffado-mixer (GUI), or
hinawa-maudio-bebob-normal-cui in hinawa-utils (CUI).

https://github.com/takaswie/hinawa-utils

The hinawa-utils is an application of libhinawa.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libhinawa

For example:
$ ./hinawa-maudio-bebob-normal-cui 1 mixer-routing
Arguments for mixer-routing command:
  mixer-routing sink source [value]
    mixer-1/2 [analog-1/2, digital-1/2, stream-1/2, stream-3/4,
stream-5/6] [0, 1]
    mixer-3/4 [analog-1/2, digital-1/2, stream-1/2, stream-3/4,
stream-5/6] [0, 1]
    mixer-5/6 [analog-1/2, digital-1/2, stream-1/2, stream-3/4,
stream-5/6] [0, 1]

$ ./hinawa-maudio-bebob-normal-cui 1 mixer-routing mixer-1/2 stream-1/2 1


Regards

Takashi Sakamoto