Re: [LAU] Successor/replacement for RME HDSP+Multiface?

From: Peter P. <p8rpp@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Aug 28 2014 - 23:07:27 EEST

* Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings@email-addr-hidden> [2014-08-28 12:03]:
> On 08/28/2014 05:48 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Jörn Nettingsmeier
> ><nettings@email-addr-hidden <mailto:nettings@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > no personal experience, but i guess the ff400/800 support is fairly
> > complete by now. check with jonathan woithe on the ffado list to
> > make sure.
> >
> >
> >just in time for firewire to ride off into the sunset ...
Yes, nice comment Paul. I feel I have to keep chasing laptops that
have either an express card slot or a firewire connector.
> >
>
> fair enough, but a surprisingly large number of those boxes are
> lying around in institutions and studios (among them, I believe,
> Ardour headquarters :) so it's still kind of useful - the ffs are
> still more or less state-of-the-art in terms of audio quality, so
> it's well worth the extra effort to dig up a firewire card and jump
> through a few hoops if the prize is access to those preamps and
> converters.
Which nicely circles back to my question if there are any settings on
the FF400/800 are settable from within Linux, such as, lets say, +48V
and switchable input jacks etc.

Thanks for all the answers which help to get a good picture of the
current not too bright future vision re pro audio interfaces.

P
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