04-20-2023, 05:18 AM | #1 |
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Interfaces (Firewire) Supported by FFADO?
This is a great piece of software as it allows control of firewire interfaces. But is there any list of those supported by the project?
I will add one that I have that does work. Echo AudioFire 8 I can enable the live monitoring within the device and adjust which inputs are sent to which outputs as well as which outputs have playback audio coming from the DAW. Are there other interfaces? |
04-20-2023, 11:21 AM | #2 |
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I looked into this a little more. It looks like Echo and RME were cooperative in sharing with the FFADO team. So it makes sense that the Echo interfaces work well in Linux.
FFADO put some effort into MOTU since they were esteemed as a good hardware builder. MOTU was not cooperative with FFADO. From my view this makes Echo the king of Linux Audio Interfaces. Especially for multiple i/o (as opposed to 4 channels or less). Not FireWire related information... but an FYI, Lexicon USB interfaces also seem to work well in Linux. They do all hardware live monitoring control, audio, phantom power switching, etc, from the hardware side. They provide balanced ins and outs to the best of my knowledge. |
05-07-2023, 04:57 AM | #3 |
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So far I'm finding that most firewire interfaces work with the caveat that you won't have direct (pass through) monitoring (have to check "live monitoring" on the record button in Reaper). Also, if there's not a physical button for it, it likely won't work because the control software won't be available. Thus ECHO is the best I know of since they were cooperative with the FFADO developers. They're also very good interfaces to boot!
Here are a short list of interfaces I've tested that have physical buttons (knobs) and work great... but no pass through direct monitoring: -M-Audio ProFire 610 and 2626 (probably any of M-Audio interfaces) -Presonus FireBox and I'd take a risk on any firewire interface that has physical knobs and switches. -Apogee Duet DOES NOT have physical buttons and switches (software controlled) and although it passes sound will not toggle through things like 48v phantom, switching inputs from XLR to 1/4" line in, unless you can find software to run it. In order to get my firewire interfaces to run, I installed Jack2 (QJackCTL) and FFADO. I also had to blacklist snd-dice (see my other thread from around this time on that) which is the stock kernel firewire support to get the M-Audio to run. Otherwise it gets taken over by the PC's PulseAudio server. Apogee also needed something blacklisted. |
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