On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 02:24:26PM +0100, Ralf Beck wrote: > Ken Restivo schrieb: > > > > > > > > 2) USB 2.0 is proprietary and non-standard > > > That's not correct. There is a USB 2.0 Audio/Midi specification. Vendors > just don't develop their devices according to the > spec and instead use their own proprietary protocols. > Ah yes, I'd forgotten, thanks. The problem then, was that there weren't any standard "class-compliant" USB2.0 adapters known to exist. > > > 3) Because of (1) and (2), Linux Audio users will soon be left without any way to do multichannel recording on laptops. > > > Well, there is a german company MARIAN, which is doing audio interfaces. > They have a USB interface and a bunch of > PCI interfaces including an ADAT only card. > > On their webpage they state, that they are willing to give all necessary > information to write drivers to developers of oter OSes. > > See http://www.marian.de/en/aboutus > > Has anybody ever contacted them? > I don't know. That seems like it might be promising. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
