LinuxMusicians

Hi!

At first I will excuse me for my terrible english, I'm from Germany and my english speaking is a disaster. So i translate with google.

I am a sound engineer from a band. We use a digital mixer for live gigs, Soundcraft Expression1. This Pult generates a signal named MADI. I have a changer, their generates an Ethersound signal from MADI . I take the opportunity with Windows , record on EtherSound with many tracks(32). There is this possibility with Linux ? Or is EtherSound a problem?

Thanks for help and i hope, you understand me..


Dennis

http://www.ethersound.com/technology/overview.php
"The patented EtherSound protocol ..."

This is no "hard" no-go because the mp3-encoder lame uses a patented format as well but I don't think that there's much hope.
EtherSound would have be added to jackd but I never heard of any efforts to do that.

Thanks for your answer!

I know, that Ethersound be patented.

The Problem is, their many of protocolls in the sound engineering, MADI, Ethersound, Dante, ... but nothing works with Linux. I find this very sad.
Their are many good programs for Linux and Sound, but I can't use them for recording.


Dennis

There seems to be a driver for MADI:

https://community.ardour.org/node/1272

Check out the AVB standard. Motu and soon to be supported Rednet adapters use it. Intel is writing a linux driver. One already exists in parts for linux. And yes AVB is fully opensource. Imagine Motu doing something opensource.