Re: [linux-audio-user] DiGi9652 or HDSP9652 ?

oh yeah, Michele, when I mentioned hdspmixer, here's the guy :) He and a
couple of other folk are the badasses that helped me get mine running too,
although, what's funny is I don't think we officially ever fixed the problem
I was having *LAUGH* it just works now (magic touch?)

----- Original Message -----
From: "thomas charbonnel" <thomas@email-addr-hidden>
To: "A list for linux audio users" <linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden>
Cc: "Michele Spinolo" <michele.spinolo@email-addr-hidden>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] DiGi9652 or HDSP9652 ?

> Michele Spinolo wrote :
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm going to buy one of these cards, and I was wondering what about the
> > differences from one to each other and concernig ALSA's support.
> > By ALSA's website seems they are completly supported, but I would like
to
> > have some users' confimations.
> >
> > On RME website I focused this words:
> >
> > HDSP 9652 is the long-awaited successor of the well-known PCI card
Project
> > Hammerfall (DIGI9652). Like the original Hammerfall, HDSP 9652 offers 3
x
> > ADAT optical I/O, ADAT-Sync In, SPDIF I/O and word clock I/O. On top,
there
> > are 2 MIDI I/Os and TotalMix, a DSP-based real-time mixer/router.
> >
> > apart from MIDI I/Os which I do not care about, I didn't understand what
> > TotalMix will do on HDSP9652 and under Linux.
> >
> > Thanks in advance to anyone who will help!
> > Michele
> >
>
> Hi Michele,
>
> The hardware mixer that comes with the HDSP 9652 is a very flexible way
> of controlling the way audio signals are routed inside the card.
> Basically you can route any incoming signal or software playback channel
> to any physical output with a gain ranging from -oo dB to +6 dB. This is
> done in hardware, so it doesn't impact the cpu load in any way, and is
> very low latency (2 samples). The card also does hardware peak and RMS
> calculation on all channels. Totalmix is the frontend provided by RME to
> control this hardware mixer and display the meters. I wrote a linux
> clone of this application, hdspmixer, that's shipped with the alsa-tools
> package.
>
> Thomas
>
>
Received on Sun Feb 27 00:15:07 2005