Re: RME HDSPe AIO, hdsploader compulsory ?

francois bluewin <francois.juigner@xxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:34:28 +0100



      Hi Harry, Hi Ralf,

        
        Thank you for the fast answers.

        
        Harry, in fact you did not quite answer question 1 : do I have
        to use hdsploader ? Put it another way, would the card be
        recognized if the firmware is not ok? This firmware question is
        not clear for me :  I fear to corrupt the card's windows
        firmware if I run hdsploader. Maybe that's completely wrong...

        
        I agree that using amixer seems to be a horrible way to work,
        but I could not manage to get anything out of hdspmixer... There
        is no way to change the routes it loads by default ! clicking on
        the playback labels doesn't allow to check or uncheck existing
        boxes.

        
        This is why I wonder if there isn't anything wrong with my
        setup, namely : would the use of hdsploader change hdspmixer's
        behaviour ?

        
        Thank you 

        
        François

        
        Le 11/12/2014 17:03, Harry van Haaren a écrit :

      
            On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:49 PM,
              francois juigner <francois.juigner@xxxxxxxxxx>
              wrote:
               1 -
                is it compulsory to use hdsploader, even if the card is
                recognized ?

              
              HdspLoader and HdspMixer are two programs that will
                intereact with the RME devices: the first provides the
                firmware it needs to run, the second interacts with the
                device just like amixer, only provides a sane GUI :D
              

              Basically, since the RME has a routing matrix
                built-in, using amixer will provide every single
                control, which will be a totally horrible way to work.
                Since HdspMixer provides a good way to interact with the
                sub-mixes, its advised ;)
              

              HTH, -Harry
              

              PS: I have a Multiface 2, so my experience might be
                slightly different to yours with the AIO. 
            
            
            -- 

            
              http://www.openavproductions.com
          
        
      Le 11/12/2014 18:26, Ralf Mardorf a
        écrit :

      
        I bought the HDSPe AIO in May 2011, after it was recommended on this
list or LAD. Until today 3 1/2 years later I never could get it working
correctly using hdspmixer on Linux. To test the sound card I installed
FreeBSD first and then Windows XP. The sound card isn't broken and I
know how to handle totalmix under Windows. However, I'm only using
Linux and so assumed you should find out how to get all 8 ADAT IOs
accessible by jackd, please let me know. On my machine only ADAT
channel 1 and 2 are available by jackd.

Regards,
Ralf

      
        S: Assumed you want to use a frequency > 48 KHz, then you first need to
select it using alsamixer, before you can start jackd.


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