Re: [Isisalsa-devel] Re: [Alsa-devel] Guillemot ISIS Maxi Studio

[Pieter P. <pie...@st...>]

Anthony wrote:

>* Pieter Palmers <ppa...@es...> [Aug 18 03 05:42]:
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>>Hi,
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>>You can find most info about the alsa driver for the ISIS at 
>>http://isisalsa.sourceforge.net/
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>Excellent news. We picked up this card for dirt cheap, so I'm glad
>there is some hope of using it.
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>>A few weeks ago there was a first driver release, based upon alsa 0.9.5.
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>>There are two utils available to make the ISIS work:
>>* maxiinit: a firmware load/card config utility that enables the card
>>* an alsa driver (beta release) for the isis in 'multimedia' mode.
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>>after using the maxiinit tool, you can choose which driver you want to 
>>use: the isis driver or the generic maestro2E driver. The latter offers 
>>only es1968 support, but is of higher quality than the isis driver, 
>>which is a beta release.
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>To be clear, we have the Maxi Studio card. I know almost nothing about
>it, but I see there is some good reading material for me. The goal is to
>get the breakout box 8 channels working for recording. Has anybody had
>any success doing this?
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The recording functionallity isn't implemented yet. Playback only.

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>>Should you have some time available for this project, it would be very 
>>welcome. For the moment I'm the only one working on it, and I don't have 
>>that much spare time.
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>I will try out the existing driver this week hopefully. Unfortunately, I
>don't have access to the machine often other than through ssh, which makes
>devloping difficult. Not to mention I have little expierence doing such
>things. But, I do hope to eventually invest some time. Thanks for the reply.
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no problem.

Pieter