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Daniel Wagner wrote:

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>> For this purpose a single paragraph should suffice.

>

> The FreeBoB project will release this week its first release. This

> release will support many BeBoB based products with some basic

> operations. We already work very hard on the next version which should

> then give some more control over the devices like sync selection etc.

>

> daniel

> 

I would make it a little more verbose:
The FreeBoB project will release its first public version this week.

This release will support BeBoB based Firewire audio breakout boxes.

Among these are for example the Roland/Edirol FA-101, Terratec Phase FW

series and the Presonus FirePod/FireBox. A more elaborate list can be

found on the FreeBoB website (freebob.sf.net).
The support is not complete yet, but all the basic things are present:

- jackd support

- Analog I/O at all samplerates supported by the device

- Digital I/O, depending on the format and firmware config.

- MIDI support through ALSA-Sequencer
Experimental support for:

- multiple devices on the bus using external sync
Not supported yet:

- hardware zero-latency mixer control

- extended device configuration controls (front/back switches, sync

modes, ...)

- native ALSA support (the alsa<->jack plugin works though)
Minimal roundtrip audio loopback latencies are, depending on your

system, around 5-10ms.
We are already working very hard on the next version, which will give

more control over the devices. This includes mixer support, software

sync source selection, firmware download. It will also extend the

support for combining multiple devices.