congratulations, good work!
looking forward to the alsa side of things :)
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 15:59 +0200, Pieter Palmers wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Now that JACK 0.102.20 and QJackCtl 0.2.21 being released, the FreeBoB
> team is proud to present libfreebob 1.0. The FreeBoB project aims to
> provide a generic solution for using Firewire (semi-)pro-audio devices
> in Linux.
>
> This release provides support for the devices based on the BridgeCo
> DM1000 or DM1500 chipset that are running the BeBoB firmware. For a list
> of supported devices, consult our website at freebob.sf.net.
>
> FreeBoB currently provides an interface library that allows firewire
> audio devices to be used with the JACK audio server, using a dedicated
> backend. This backend is included in the official JACK releases, from
> this version on (i.e. 0.102.20). The latest version of QJackCtl also
> includes support for this FreeBoB backend. MIDI support is provided
> through ALSA sequencer.
>
> Feature list:
> * Automatic detection & configuration of devices. If there are multiple
> devices attached to the same firewire bus, freebob merges them into one
> big device. The devices have to be synced externally (wordclock/spdif)
> so that they don't drift. Note that this release cannot setup the boxes
> to be synced yet, being synced is a precondition at the moment. (I
> tested this with 2 phase88's connected with wordclock, and this works
> without the need for any special setting because the Phase88
> automatically chooses wordclock slave when there is a wordclock signal
> present. This can be different for other models).
> * Audio I/O on all analog channels at all sample rates supported by the
> device. SPDIF/ADAT I/O works in most cases (when presented as analog IO
> by the device). AC3 passthrough doesn't work.
> * Midi I/O for all midi ports the device implements, using alsa-sequencer
> * Round-trip latency figures around 5ms (depends on system
> configuration). 10ms is achievable on all well-configured machines
>
> Not supported yet:
> * Hardware mixing ("zero latency" mixer)
> * Device-specific configuration (input gain switches, sync source
> selection, midi control mappings, ...)
> * ALSA for audio IO
> * Special SPDIF/ADAT stream support
>
> You can download FreeBoB 1.0 at our sourceforge page:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=117802
> more info at freebob.sf.net
>
> What's next?
>
> We are working on the second generation of the FreeBoB codebase. The 1.0
> release is the endpoint for the codebase that dates back to the start of
> the project. The 2.0 codebase is a complete redesign of the system using
> 1.0 as a 'golden spec'. While the 1.0 version is BeBoB-only, the 2.0
> codebase is designed as a framework to support all firewire based audio
> boxes. The current level of functionality is almost the same for both
> codebases. The main difference is that 1.0 had one year of testing and
> 2.0 doesn't, it's still in the alpha stage. Needless to say that 2.0
> will outperform 1.0 by far ;).
>
> Of course this redesign isn't for the sake of aesthetic beauty or lack
> of things to do... I can announce that we are already working on
> broadening the supported device list. Currently there is support for the
> Motu Traveller and the Motu 828 (through reverse engineering). There are
> also contacts with the DICE-II developers to implement generic support
> for devices based upon their chipset. As an extra, support for Metric
> Halo devices is also in the pipeline. Once all of these devices are
> supported, we will cover a very large part of the Firewire audio device
> spectrum. The most important void will be RME Fireface support, and for
> the real budget users: Behringer and Hercules devices.
>
> That's all folks!
>
> Pieter Palmers
> (on behalf of the FreeBoB team)
>
>
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