Linux Audio Driver Annoucements

jksuperstar

First, I noticed (finally!!) the Emu 1616/1616m (basically all microdock based interfaces) will have support in the next release of ALSA.
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/forums.html?vendor=vendor-Creative_Labs#matrix

Also, FreeBoB seems to be collecting quite a list of supported FireWire devices for Linux:
http://freebob.sourceforge.net/forums.html/List_of_Supported_Devices

Kassen

Kassen · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:54 am Post subject:

Hmmmm, but no midi.

jksuperstar · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject:

Well, no MIDI, but I'm hoping that will come soon. Now I can start on that linux distro again (the one with low-latency, simple graphics, and all the e-m.com tools that we all love so much like chuck, Pd, and maybe even some VST/LADSPA/LV2 plugin support.)

Maybe once there's MIDI support, (someone?) can add MIDI control to the mixer, if the linux driver has one.

Kassen · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:25 am Post subject:

Maybe that would be the distro for my laptop then. Would you considder including Fluxus? I think Fluxus is in Dyne already and I'm having trouble compiling it on my desktop so far. Fluxus is a system for livecoding graphics (based on Scheme, it has a physics engine and openGL)

ten fingers ten toes · Joined: May 03, 2007 Posts: 11 Location: USA

If anyone is considering purchasing one, I have a Phonic Helixboard Firewire 12 running perfectly in Ubuntu 7.10 using Freebob 1.0.7. Now if only I could find the alsa jack plugin so I could route alsa audio into jackd -- right now most of my applications are not jack aware (Firefox is a biggie -- no youtube!) but I'm sure this can be corrected if I spent some more time.

Stochastic · Joined: Feb 25, 2008 Posts: 45 Location: Vancouver

Blue Hell · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:50 am Post subject:

Stochastic

Stochastic · Joined: Feb 25, 2008 Posts: 45 Location: Vancouver

Thanks Blue Hell.

I stumbled across this section of the forums after lurking in the ChucK section for a bit now. Thought it had a rather low traffic rate and figured my enthusiasm for FOSS and audio could help.

Coriolis · Joined: Apr 11, 2005 Posts: 616 Location: Stilling, Denmark

Hmm - I see there is FreeBoB support for the Focusrite Saffire, but not the dsp and mixer section. I wonder if that means it would work with my Saffire LE?
Anybody have experience with the Saffire? And no mixer support sounds like a bummer...

C

Stochastic · Joined: Feb 25, 2008 Posts: 45 Location: Vancouver

You may want to try the new beta ffado driver (a reincarnation of freebob) as the developers have been given saffires (both pro and LE) to test on, so the mixer (probably not the DSP) should work.

nobody · Joined: Mar 09, 2008 Posts: 1687 Location: Not here

Speaking of freebob, I just got my two Mackie Onyxs working. Assuming you have your firewire card working, the Onyx firewire card seems to work well with freebob. I struggled with this for a long time before plugging mixer A into my Audigy's firewire port and plugging mixer B into mixer A. Turn it on, check with gscanbus, works in Ardour and Rosegarden for me.

Fan-effin'tastic. I'm waiting for an Emagics AMT8 to replace my MOTU MIDI Express XT for Linux and I can kiss Windows good-flamin'-bye. Cool