On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:11:20PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Jacob Meuser <[email protected]> > wrote: > > the alsa driver looks to be a complete driver that has nothing to do > > with any of the usb standards based drivers for audio or midi. one > > of the copyright holders on the alsa driver has an @caiaq.de email > > address. http://caiaq.de doesn't have much info, but it says > > "hardware development". I'm guessing these guys (caiaq.de) developed > > this hardware and the drivers. why it doesn't use the usb audio and > > midi standards though, I cannot answer. > > Well because this just seems so braindead I'm bugging Native > Instruments and the @caiaq.de guy; I'll let you all know if any useful > info comes out of that. > > I got this from one of their fanbois on their forums: > > hmm, > > ... it is a soundcard > > ... you connect it via usb > > ... it works via usb > > > > therefore Audio4DJ is definetly a USB soundcard! > > > > That Audio4 is not working with linux doesn't disqualify it, > > as long NI doesn't promote it for doing that. > Which is kind of "Arggh stupid people". I was hoping we were past the > days of being slaves to vendors for compatibility. (And I did mention > OpenBSD, he's probably just unaware that anything besides > win/mac/linux exists.)
I went to native-instruments.com to see if they claim their products are USB audio/midi standards compliant. sure it's a "USB soundcard", but that doesn't necessarily imply that it's standards compliant. the site is all Flash. that should give some indication of how aware/ considerate they are of "alternative" operating systems. otoh, the USB audio standard is not so easy to comprehend ... -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
