On Sat, 2020-01-25 at 10:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2020-01-24 at 23:30 +0000, Dmitri Seletski wrote: > > https://www.schiit.com/products/fulla-1 > > Since it's an USB device, it's most likely class compliant... > > > Just connected it, alsa works by default, but no software mixer. > > ...this means that it works for Linux and Apple without the need of a > proprietary driver. Nobody needs to do reverse engineering or to beg to > get detailed information from the vendor, if the vendor doesn't provide > a driver. Oops: > However, accessing the software mixer requires a driver. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ actually it's the device's hardware mixer that is doing internal routing, providing digital effects or any other special feature. You could always use a software mixer, such as the one available by Ardour. However, such a software mixer doesn't allow to benefit from the device's hardware (mixer) features. > > Btw. among other prosumer and pro audio devices I own a prosumer > Focusrite Scarlett series class compliant USB audio device (a 18i20) of > the 2nd generation. For at least some, if not all of the 1st generation > Scarlett audio devices, Linux provides access to the hardware mixer, but > not for the 2nd generation. By now already a 3rd generation exists. > > IOW just because a driver for a particular revision of hardware does > exist, it doesn't mean that all revisions are supported. _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
