Hello,
Guenter's driver is and always has been the best.
thats true, since he invented the multichannel OSS-ENhancement.
:) Thanks
We need someone who is willing to really dig into ALSA, probably by reusing code from the JACK alsa driver. My motivation for doing that is pretty low, because for desktop usage I am happy with JACK, and for performance critical situations and installations I use my own driver.
It didnt want to anounce it yet, but just today I got the new RME HDSP-MADI 64-Channel Digital IN/OUT and 64-Playback/Capture ones (incredible, the mixer has 8192 volume items) and we decided I should to do an ALSA-Driver for it, so anyway I have to dig into ALSA. On the way I will have a look ob the HDSP-Card.
So I can try to make an ALSA-Lib-part also respecting this card for PD. Since I think also, ALSA has a lowlevel and midlevel-driver + alsalib for controlling the cards and that should be enough function Calls ;-)) (but most of all dependencies) ( not using portaudio to play in jack to control alsalib...)
Since ALSA is now in linux-kernel. it should be quite stable in development.
(If above doesnt work out, I can make a OSS/Free guenther-like driver for the cards. ;-)
Hoping for enough beta-tester on this list.
mfg winfried