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<pre>(sorry about using this lame webmail browser to compose this.<br><br>Paul Davis wrote:<br>><i> Aplay seems to work fine. Of course, I don't have an 'ardour equivalent' so<br></i>><i> that I can determine if it is the driver or alsa/jack.<br></i><br>:use any jack app (even something as trivial as jack_metro). use qjackctl<br>:to connect its output to each channel in turn. this will narrow down<br>:where the error is.<br><br>Excellent suggestion Paul... will try it. Have just discovered that selecting <br>48000 or 44100 seems to impact the problem (no prob at 44100)<br><br>><i> Since Jack/Ardour works with RME and other cards, I'm thinking driver, but<br></i>><i> it would help if it was confirmed that it also worked with other sync'd<br></i>><i> cards like several Delta 1010s in a system.<br></i><br>:this has been confirmed. i think the max count so far is 5 delta 1010's.<br><br>Terrific!! The concept works somewhere.<br><br>><i> That's what I get for trying to 'kill two birds with one stone', providing<br></i>><i> QC on a driver by 'stress testing' it's limits and working up a new<br></i>><i> application.<br></i><br>:actually, this is a little unfair as a "stress test". most drivers are<br>:not written with the idea of syncing multiple instances of the h/w. it<br>:just so happens that it works.<br><br>Its hard to be 'unfair' to software. It just doesn't seem to care<br>one way or the other.<br><br>:if you're seriously interested in "pro-level" stuff, you wouldn't choose<br>:multiple devices like this. get yourself the right hardware and save<br>:yourself a lot of hassle, now and into the future.<br><br>A very rational suggestion. However, please be aware than anyone debugging,<br>developing a driver or otherwise messing with hardware from a company that <br>went under over 8 years ago isn't likely to be very rational about why <br>they are doing it. It's similar to a quest to get 192khz out of an Amiga or<br>install democracy in Iraq.<br><br>see also:<br><a href="http://www.gearslutz.com/board/remote-possibilities-acoustic-music-location-recording/355183-doing-common-thing-uncommon-way.html">http://www.gearslutz.com/board/remote-possibilities-acoustic-music-location-recording/355183-doing-common-thing-uncommon-way.html</a><br><br>This is actually a great read. In particular, it points out some things that you<br>absolutely have to do in order to be successful commercially (mainly, look the<br>part, say the right things, and leave a good impression).<br><br>My observation:<br>Music and money are similar to sex and money.<br>All the elements are there, but all of the fun has been taken out of it.<br><br>The harder you try to make money while having fun, the less of both you will get.<br><br>-Mike Mazarick<br><br></pre>
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