Iain Mott said at Ò[PD] RME Digi96-8Ó. [2002/05/09 22:32]

hi

i'm considering investing in a RME Digi96-8 card along with an AEB8-O card for output. Have scanned through the Pd archive for info - but i'm still a uncertain about its workability.

Has anyone used this card on Linux with Pd and if so, what drivers, audio configurations(OSS, ALSA), kernels etc work?

I am using a digi98-8 with a fostex ADAT-analog converter. Works well with pd and ALSA 0.9. It needs the 0.9 ALSA version. There is supposed to be an OSS commercial driver, but I never got it to work. The card knows only two "fragment" settings. This is a hardware thing I think, so the latency is best for 8 channels.

It can be a bit sensitive about IRQ settings, I had to shuffle my PCI cards before getting it to work all the time. Also when switching to ADAT mode, which is a seperate device for ALSA, I have to start pd, quit, and start pd again, to enable full-duplex. 8 channel output always works the first time. It gives an input error on the first try at the new device. I have never used the AEB8 board, but it should work without problems. I can mail you my modules.conf for ALSA and my pd flags if you need them.

regards

Gerard van Dongen