On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 20:50, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 04:22 -0500, Rick B wrote: > > > I kind of got the impression that the annoucement was just pertaining to > > RME *Firewire* audio interfaces. Consider that they have released some specs for their HDSP hammerfall series, which uses a *proprietary* firewire protocol and that their latest PC products were based on IEEE1394 except one or two PCI based cards. > > That's what i thought. "RME is no more" seems a bit exagerated (although > i feel for the person who bought the card thinking it's supported by the > Linux drivers). I don't think it's exagerated, see explanation above. I knew exactly it wasn't at the time i bought it, i just took it for granted. I talked to Thomas Charbonnel back in april at the ZKM and it seemed that they were positive about alsa support for fireface. > > Anyway, beyond Linux support tribulations, the RME Fireface is a great > card. I just read a review in the international Dec 2004 edition of > Sound On Sound - it's really cool. It has all the things that i wish the > Multiface had. I can only agree with that. But that's even worse for us then. ;) > > Sadly, if there's no support for Linux, i guess i won't buy it. It's not > like the world ends with RME or anything. Well it's close to such situation in the linux pro-audio world. The two major players in pro-audio hw market that supported ALSA development if only indirectly by providing specs, were m-audio and... rme. Have a look at the ALSA matrix, it's a pretty sad situation. The only *real* hw manufacturer in my eyes is audioscience, they provide their own ALSA drivers(that's how it should be) but produce only broadcast cards. Marek
