On Saturday 07 November 2009 12:06:20 Hartmut Noack wrote: > Arnold Krille schrieb: > > Firewire is the only thing where you can have high number of channels and > > even more then one device on one connection. And work for supporting > > almost all devices except for Motu is quite advanced thanks to support > > from the vendors. > So these big beasts seem to be the only alternative... They aren't all big. The Focusrite Saffire PRO24 is rather small, bus-powered (if you want) but still has lots of inputs. And without the DSP it is not that much money for what you get. > I can only hope, that the distributors wake up and put some of their > big-company-weight (and errrmm maybe some of their money?) into that. > But they seem to be totally unaware of something like a need for > pro-audio-support for Linux. - What a misconception! Every OS out there > that qualifies as "full grown" offers support for everything any user > today does on a PC. MS and Apple do not ignore audio-needs just because > audio-producers are only a small percentage of the userbase. > The SuseAG showed some insight on this as they put the alsa-people on > their payroll and set up a certified-for-linux programme for > multimedia-devices that made Linux visible to companies like Terratec. > As a result we now have perfect support for envy24-cards. > But NOVELL cut these efforts. And other distributors, that proudly claim > "We love the desktop-user!"? They do not much more than to gracefully > accept a halfhearted integration of the unpaid efforts of free devs in > the backyards of their repos... > I really wonder what can be done to change this... Actually Redhat employees are helping on making ffado run on the new firewire- stack through libraw1394... And TC electronics did give some financial support too. Only it was not enough to pay ppalmers full-time, so he had to take a job. Arnold
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
