On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:09:55 +0200, ttoine wrote: >What is great with usb2 class compliant audio devices, is that any >device working with Apple iPad will work out of the box with Linux.
That's nice. OTOH the cheapest RME USB device seems to be the Babyface. It's much more expensive than the HDSPe AIO PCIe card and RME hides minimal buffer sizes for the Babyface, but the HDSPe AIO is advertised with buffer sizes. Why do they hide the buffer sizes? However, you pay for the card plus the new total mix, a mixer seemingly similar to mixbus. It's not available for Linux, so pay for Mixbus or a similar solution too. I wonder if the class compilant modus even allows to use the aged total mix we know as hdspmixer? One reason to use FLOSS is that a lot is available for free as in beer, unfortunately software is bundled with the hardware, IOW you pay for what you need, but can't use it with Linux. For Linux there aren't FLOSS solutions to replace what you already bought. Linux became a bottomless pit. Your goal to make an Ubuntu independent Linux audio distro to provide something that can compete better to proprietary solutions is the wrong track. Hardware companies already bundle what users need and they usually provide it for Apple and Microsoft based systems only. An exception is Behringer. Behringer nowadays seems to support Linux platforms too, but Behringer is bottom quality, you even can't unscrew, repair/maintain and screw down Behringer gear without trouble. Hardware for Linux always was an issue and for audio it becomes a more serious issue at the moment. -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
