On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 02:03:20AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Nick Guenther <[email protected]> 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. > > Amazingly he responded within an hour of me emailing him! He says the > reason for the proprietary protocol is that the cards are 6 years old > and appearently USB audio drivers in all the various OSes weren't good > enough for "pro" use. That's annoying these days but acceptable, I > think.
I kinda thought that would be their reason. but then, if they are supplying drivers, why not just supply a better generic driver? I guess making the competition better isn't such a great idea wrt sales ... > I still kind of want to trade it in but it's looking like there might > not be any other 4in/4out USB soundcard that's suitable (they're all > either too complex or appear to be old so probably need custom > drivers). Universal Serial Bus Device Class Definition for Audio Devices Release 1.0 March 18, 1998 older than that? again, by that spec, devices could be made to operate at 1-2ms latency, which is certainly low enough to be considered "pro". -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
