I use a presonus firebox with good results under the released freebob 1.0. Jack allows me to do what I need to with the device (e.g. set samplerate, latency, etc). I recently recorded a high school Christmas concert (the school that I teach at) last friday with good results. My signal chain: 1pr Rode NT4's -->aphex107 preamp -->firebox line in's. I had no xruns or ardour dropping jack for the whole 1.5 hour concert. I would imagine the firepod to have similar results to the firebox. PF On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 13:49 +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote: > > I'm looking to buy some firewire sound card, and I have got a very good price on a > > Focusrite Saffire LE, but it says on the Freebob website about the Saffire: > > "FireWire Interface with DSP - DSP and mixer not supported by FreeBob". What does > > this mean practically? > > IRC, the Saffire has configurable mixer build in and a DSP which freebob > has no control software (gui etc) for it. If the basic setup (after > powering the device up) is ok for you, the thing should work with > freebob. But you can't change anything at this point. > > > > Which are the pros and cons compared to the Presonus Firebox which I can obtain for > > a marginally higher price? Is the Focusrite Saffire LE even fully workable under Linux? > > I don't think so (see above) > > > If "mixer" means the included control software for Windows, what possibilities for > > controlling the device exists? > > yes > > > And is the support for the Firebox sufficient, or should I go for something completely > > different in the same or even lower pricerange? > > > > I'm thinking of even buying a Presonus Firepod if I can get it at a good price, is this > > something that is 100% supported, or are there still things that need to be fixed? > > Freebob works fairly good but nothing is 100%. There are a few people > around which use those devices. Maybe some of them can drop a line if it > works for them. > > cheers, > daniel >
