porl sheean wrote: > a while ago i purchased a focusrite saffire pro 26io. it has finally > come to a point where it is quite reliably useful as an interface for > jack/ardour (the latency isn't brilliant, but i'm pretty sure that is > the fault of my firewire chipset). I fixed latency for ffado yesterday, and at least one person reports 3x32 as working for him. So if you have a good firewire chipset, you will also be able to achieve this. But maybe wait for beta7. > > i found out recently that unfortunately, in order to get teh device > working as a basic 'summing mixer' for live work (i wanted to > essentially use it as a basic 8 in 1 out preamp to send to a small > desk at a venue) it needs to be set in 'streaming mode'. i can get > this working by starting jack and just leaving that running, but i was > wondering if anyone knew of an easier way (maybe one of ffado's > command line utilities? there seem to be a lot in there and i don't > know what half of them do). if not, would it be difficult to write a > small app that basically just 'turns on streaming'? or should i just > keep using jack? (i am hesitant to do this as i have still had a few > issues with dropouts, and as you can imagine at a live performance > this could be a problem). The fact that streaming has to be turned on is a design decision of Focusrite. We can't change that. I don't see why you wouldn't use jack. What's the point in using a separate application that basically does the same? Just run jack with a large period size, and you should be fine. Something along the lines of: jackd -R -d firewire -p2048 -n4 should work fine. I've done multi-hour recordings with the pro26 at 3x1024 without any problem whatsoever. Greets, Pieter PS: Most of the command line tools in the ffado repository are test or debug tools. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
