Hi all, i'm currently awaiting the first official release of ffado and in the meantime searching about the best FW audio interface for me. Facts should be: - headphone out - >= 6 analog out - able to record at 96kHz - supports MIDI (currently no sysex is supported on any devices with freebob/ffado as i understand - will this change? I'm planning to switch with sysex data some controls of an effects box in realtime - along with sending/receiving audio....) In the process of searching i found these posts on the presonus forum: http://www.presonus.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1834&page=5 It seems the firebox HW isn't able to record at 96kHz and 88.2kHz - it just doubles all samples when in these rates - so just doing half of an upsampling process (w/o lowpass filter) and not at all sampling at these high rates.... Is that known amongst the freebob/ffado users/developers ? Reinhard _____________________________________________________________________ Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=000000000066 |
From: Pieter P. <pi...@jo...> - 2007-07-30 12:18:39
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anR...@we... wrote: > Hi all, > > i'm currently awaiting the first official release of ffado and in the > meantime searching about the best FW audio interface for me. Facts > should be: > > - headphone out - >= 6 analog out - able to record at 96kHz - > supports MIDI (currently no sysex is supported on any devices with > freebob/ffado as i understand - will this change? I'm planning to > switch with sysex data some controls of an effects box in realtime - > along with sending/receiving audio....) > Sysex is supported, you simply have to use the correct program. freebob/ffado supports midi only through alsa-seq, meaning that you will have to find a program that does sysex over alsa-seq. > In the process of searching i found these posts on the presonus > forum: > > http://www.presonus.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1834&page=5 > > It seems the firebox HW isn't able to record at 96kHz and 88.2kHz - > it just doubles all samples when in these rates - so just doing half > of an upsampling process (w/o lowpass filter) and not at all sampling > at these high rates.... That's not a very flattering problem... > Is that known amongst the freebob/ffado users/developers ? If you read the forum thread carefully you see that the problem was discovered by someone using our driver :). I indeed remember reports of this on the mailing list a while back, but as it wasn't our driver that caused the problems I sort of forgot. This issue however has nothing to do with the ffado compatibility of the device. As far as I can understand it's a firmware issue, and once the firmware is updated that should be solved. The device itself will remain compatible with freebob/ffado. Note however that the firebox is not a device that is officially supported by ffado, it has a 'reported to work' status. For more details on that check: http://www.ffado.org/?q=node/138 . Greets, Pieter |
From: Arnold K. <ar...@ar...> - 2007-07-30 12:19:06
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Hi, Am Montag, 30. Juli 2007 schrieb anR...@we...: > i'm currently awaiting the first official release of ffado and in the > meantime searching about the best FW audio interface for me. Facts should > be: > - headphone out > - >=3D 6 analog out > - able to record at 96kHz > - supports MIDI (currently no sysex is supported on any devices with > freebob/ffado as i understand - will this change? I'm planning to switch > with sysex data some controls of an effects box in realtime - along with > sending/receiving audio....) I didn't succeed with any midi on my firepod, otherwise it is working great= =20 with freebob. For midi I have either my other soundcards or an edirol um-2.= =2E. > In the process of searching i found these posts on the presonus forum: > http://www.presonus.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3D1834&page=3D5 > It seems the firebox HW isn't able to record at 96kHz and 88.2kHz - it ju= st > doubles all samples when in these rates - so just doing half of an > upsampling process (w/o lowpass filter) and not at all sampling at these > high rates.... Well, I haven't really tested the 96kHz on my firepod. They work in the sen= se=20 that jackd starts fine, but I didn't investigate further since the projects= I=20 am working on started on 48kHz... Arnold =2D-=20 visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ =2D-- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send= me=20 to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your=20 administrator to do so... |
From: Pieter P. <pi...@jo...> - 2007-07-30 12:27:25
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Arnold Krille wrote: > Hi, > > Am Montag, 30. Juli 2007 schrieb anR...@we...: >> i'm currently awaiting the first official release of ffado and in the >> meantime searching about the best FW audio interface for me. Facts should >> be: >> - headphone out >> - >= 6 analog out >> - able to record at 96kHz >> - supports MIDI (currently no sysex is supported on any devices with >> freebob/ffado as i understand - will this change? I'm planning to switch >> with sysex data some controls of an effects box in realtime - along with >> sending/receiving audio....) > > I didn't succeed with any midi on my firepod, otherwise it is working great > with freebob. For midi I have either my other soundcards or an edirol um-2... BTW: we seem to have a fix for the midi problem on the firepod, as posed on the list a few weeks ago. I'm a bit reluctant to apply it however since it doesn't make a lot of sense to me in the light of the specs. i.e. applying it will probably break all other device's midi support. I still have to investigate that. Or maybe someone on the list with something other that a firebox can try it. That would save me some time that I can spend on ffado... Greets, Pieter PS: the patch was posted to freebob-devel by ItsMusic on Jul 07, 2007 |
From: Luka P. / N. V. <no...@vi...> - 2007-08-01 22:12:22
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:50:40 +0200 anR...@we... wrote: > Hi all, > > i'm currently awaiting the first official release of ffado and in the meantime searching about the best FW audio interface for me. Facts should be: > > - headphone out > - >= 6 analog out > - able to record at 96kHz > - supports MIDI (currently no sysex is supported on any devices with freebob/ffado as i understand - will this change? I'm planning to switch with sysex data some controls of an effects box in realtime - along with sending/receiving audio....) > i'm vary satisfied with my Edirol FA-101 so far. 8x8 + midi + 2 digital i/o, phones, direct monitor + 2 mic preamps incl phantom power it works with current freebob implementation in jack 103 it records on 96khz all 8 channels. http://www.google.com/search?q=edirol%20fa-101 it's less then 400eur at thomann: http://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=edirol+fa-101 ll. -- Ah, the Tsar's bazaar's bizarre beaux-arts! + http://viator.si |
From: Thomas D. <its...@gm...> - 2007-08-02 19:07:07
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> i'm vary satisfied with my Edirol FA-101 so far. > 8x8 + midi + 2 digital i/o, phones, direct monitor + 2 mic preamps incl > phantom power > > it works with current freebob implementation in jack 103 > > it records on 96khz all 8 channels. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=edirol%20fa-101 > > it's less then 400eur at thomann: > http://www.thomann.de/gb/search_dir.html?sw=edirol+fa-101 > > > ll. > Hi Luka, does MIDI work for you with the Edirol FA-101 and freebob ? BR Thomas |