On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 06:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 2015, David Santamauro wrote: > > > So do these mixers give 16, 18 and 32 discreet input channels over > > USB (recognized by ALSA) or are only their AUX/MAIN outputs sent > > over USB to the computer? > > The channels are routable. That is you can choose what (if anything) > goes to the USB line. However, I do not know if the USB xceiver can > be set to only send a few lines. Routing only 8 channels to USB may > mean that there are 32 USB lines but only audio on 8. It seems the > X32 may not come with USB out of the box, that may be an extra card. > It comes with AES50 OOTB. The Xair does have USB, 18 i/o. There are > 11 points on the channel strip where the audio can be routed from > including raw from the ADC to post fader. You can also choose Aux in, > fx in and out, bus and mains. The Setup page seems to suggest USB can > be set to 18 or 2 i/o. > > With reguard to the X32, their web page says: > "We’ve also made the X32 even more flexible, with swappable expansion > cards for connecting to other multi-channel audio networking via USB, > ADAT, MADI and Dante protocols, in addition to the onboard ULTRANET > and AES50 connectivity." > > Then: > "A wide array of X-Expansion Cards can easily be used in place of the > pre-installed X-USB card to release the power of X32 into existing > MADI*, Dante* and ADAT networks." > > So it does come with the USB card installed. The mixer app does not > show the USB IF... I guess it checks what is actually there first. > But the routing looks to be raw in only. The routing is much harder > to understand... but a lot more i/o to deal with. > > If I was buying one, I would be tempted to walk into the local music > store with a laptop and try it out. FWIW, I use an X32 to record my band. It does come with both FW and class compliant USB interface, and I regularly record 32 channels from it using jack/linux. Haven't tried to use it as a control surface.. -- Joakim _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
