Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - more audio products using Linux

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From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd@...>
To: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List <linux-audio-dev@...>
Subject: Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - more audio products using Linux
Date: Saturday, May 26, 2007 - 4:33 pm

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 08:15:37AM -0700, Mike Taht wrote:


> Wow. I just looked at this. Pic is gorgous!


I've been reading their promotional material.  Fascinating stuff.  Each

segment of the console is actually a seperate system and they are

connected together via MidasNET.  MidasNET is a combination of Sony's

SuperMAC (AES50) and HyperMAC connections.  Midas claims that competing

equipment using those two standards will be able to seemlessly trade

audio with the XL8.  AES50 allows for ethernet to be run on top of it.


This could include a regular home grown linux audio workstation if you

bought an ASI6416 card for it from Audio Science. They (ASI) say that

linux drivers are available for the card.  For other cards from them,

they give you both ALSA drivers and a proprietary SDK as well.


Anyway, in the XL8, I would imagine that linux is only used for the

ethernet communications, driving the displays, and reading the control

surfaces.  I would think that to get the latencies they advertise, the

audio would pretty well only be handled by FGPAs and/or dedicated DSP

chips.  Keep in mind that since each segment is seperate, this would

actually mean five linux systems.  Perhaps more could be inferred from

the source code releases from Midas.  The question was brought up almost

a year ago, but I don't see any answer to where to find the source in

the archives.  Maybe they just include it on a CD bundled in with the

consoles themselves.
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[LAD] Yamaha XS - more audio products using Linux, Ben Loftis, (Fri May 25, 12:42 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - more audio products using Linux, Clemens Ladisch, (Tue May 29, 12:42 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - more audio products using Linux, Mike Taht, (Sat May 26, 3:15 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - more audio products using Linux, Joshua Boyd, (Sat May 26, 4:33 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - more audio products using Linux, Robin Gareus, (Sat May 26, 2:02 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - more audio products using Linux, Janina Sajka, (Sat May 26, 3:36 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - more audio products using Linux, Robin Gareus, (Sat May 26, 4:11 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - mlan included, Janina Sajka, (Sat May 26, 5:29 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - mlan included, Joshua Boyd, (Mon May 28, 5:31 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - mlan included, Arnold Krille, (Mon May 28, 6:16 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - mlan included, Pieter Palmers, (Mon May 28, 8:16 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - mlan included, Jens M Andreasen, (Tue May 29, 4:45 pm)
Re: [LAD] Yamaha XS - more audio products using Linux, Jay Vaughan, (Fri May 25, 5:53 pm)