On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:47:47PM +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote: > Ken Restivo wrote: >> Well I decided to try again to bring my 64-bit Intel Micro-ITX board >> alive, running 64studio and Ardour, to use as an alternate DAW >> machine at a friend's studio. I gave up trying to make a headless >> softsynth out of it, because it wouldn't boot off of a USB flash >> drive. Now that I have the Atom-based EEE, that's working out rather >> well as a portable softsynth, so I'm trying to find another use for >> the Micro-ITX since it's been sitting around unused for many mohths. >> >> The studio has two Digidesign Firewire audio interfaces there, one >> with 4 inputs and one with 8. I'd ultimately like to have them both >> running, sync'ed up, for 12 tracks of audio. >> >> Problem is, 64studio 2.1 seems to have an ancient version of FreeBoB >> (no FFADO) and an even more ancient version of JACKD (0.103.0, the >> same one I've been running for two years now on my laptop). >> >> Just for grins, I tried to hook up the Digi Firewire box, but jackd >> said "Root node has no children!" over and over again, then >> SIGSEGV'ed. Oh well. gscanbus showed the firewire interface just >> fine, and the binary package of FreeBoB doesn't seem to include the >> "test-freebob" script and tools. >> >> I dunno. Should I go with Sid? Or do any of the other Debian-derived >> audio distros support FFADO right now? > > AFAIK FFADO won't help you with digidesign gear. > >> >> I was hoping to show off how easily a 1.6Ghz 64-bit machine could >> record 12 tracks of audio with low latency using Linux. Alas, the >> knock-yer-socks-off Linux demo might have to wait a while. > > It will have to wait until someone convinces digidesign that FFADO is > something they want to help. > Um, what? Digi gear isn't supported at all on Linux??! Auugh. I guess they view it as hardware copy-protection for their software (what's the full version of ProTools go for nowadays? US$4000 a copy? Sheesh.). OK well that throws a monkey wrench into my plan to convert the studio from Mac/ProTools to Linux/Ardour. Damn. Hmm, a FOAF used to work as a QA engineer at Digi. Maybe he still does, I'll check. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
