Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards: USB, Firewire, PCI, PCMCIA

2002-01-21 Thread Max Kovgan
-=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, David Gerard Matthews Jr. wrote:

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards: USB, Firewire, PCI, PCMCIA

2002-01-21 Thread David Gerard Matthews Jr.
Paul Davis wrote: > there are much better cards than the Event series. The Midiman Delta's > would be the most obvious choice. well engineered, well documented, > well liked, and pretty well supported under Linux. > In fact, the guy who sold me my Delta told me specifically to stay clear of the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards: USB, Firewire, PCI, PCMCIA

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Davis
>2. MOTU Firewire thing: Got fed up and eventually foolish enough to go for >this. Did some research and it seemed that although this card is "firewire >compatible", it only really works with Macs. Possibly with some firewire >cards on some PCs/laptops, but not all and getting hold of this inf

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards: USB, Firewire, PCI, PCMCIA

2002-01-21 Thread Max Kovgan
dear list, this is what i've found at echo audio site, Where are the BeOS drivers? Due to a lack of useful audio applications, Echo has regretfully decided to suspend driver development for BeOS for the time being. However, we are planning to release our core C++ driver library as open source. T

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards: USB, Firewire, PCI, PCMCIA

2002-01-21 Thread Max Kovgan
-=O0~O0=- "He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought - So rested he by the Tumtum tree. And stood awhile in thought." [L.Carrol "Jabberwacky"] On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Taybin Rutkin wrote: > On Mon, 21

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Software RAID and disk throughput/latency issues

2002-01-21 Thread rob
Hi re UDMA performance Here is a quick test I did on an IBM 5400RPM drive connected to a Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev 02) (ata66 or ata100 not sure). I think UDMA mode 2 is 33, but I could be completely wrong. It's interesting that mode 4 is faster than mode 5. I know this isn't very scie

Re: [linux-audio-dev] open-source like hardware

2002-01-21 Thread Fred Gleason
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Taybin Rutkin wrote: > I did the conversion and that is $26,400.00 American dollars. Is such a > thing really availible? Klotz Digital's VADIS platform will scale to this size. The price given above would be low by a long shot, though... :) Cheers! |---

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards: USB, Firewire, PCI, PCMCIA

2002-01-21 Thread Thomas Sailer
"Richard W.E. Furse" wrote: > were hoping to fix this to an extent. Further, it turns out that 4x16x44.1 > is about the limit that USB can take - you can't do 4x24x44.1 for instance, > simply because USB doesn't have the bandwidth. Also, I couldn't find any > hint of a decent recording level cont

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA 1.1

2002-01-21 Thread John Meacham
I like this idea. any reason why it wasn't considered before? C guarentees structs are laid out in order so you should be backwards compatable. plus it doesn't eat up as many bits for future extension. LADSPA really needs this. John On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:45:02PM +0100, Richard Guenth

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Software RAID and disk throughput/latency issues

2002-01-21 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
Sage Weaver wrote: > > Apologies if this is old hat to some of y'all, but I was curious to know if > anybody has had any experience using a software RAID disk configuration for > multitrack audio purposes, like with Ardour. I'm particularly interested to > know how a software RAID 1 (mirroring)