[Alsa-user] RME HDSPe AES32 linux debian 7

[Remy Crissan]

Hello to all of you,

Nice to meet you :)

Since I know that *RME does'nt support Linux*, I wanted to know details
about the *RME HDSPe AES32
<https://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/hdspe_aes.php>* card and *ALSA* for
helping this device operate.

So I managed to install the hsdp tools and I can see the mixer operating.
with beautiful metrics colors.

*This program comes WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY**HDSPConf is free
software, see the file copying for details*
*Looking for HDSP cards :*
*Card 0 : RME AES32 S/N 0x99e606 at 0x92c00000, irq 16**No Hammerfall DSP
card found.*

*I have 2 questions* :

1. I have a *Focusrite Rednet D16R AES
<https://us.focusrite.com/ethernet-audio-interfaces/rednet-d16-aes>*
which is connected to the *RME HDSPe AES32
<https://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/hdspe_aes.php> *by *AVID AES
Cables *(Tascam wiring).

I wanted to know how are the AES 1,2,3,4,..,14,15,16 ports between each
sides communicate,

The aim of the operation is to synchronise :

1. The dante network external boxes devices to the *Focusrite Rednet
D16R AES
<https://us.focusrite.com/ethernet-audio-interfaces/rednet-d16-aes>*
2. The the *Focusrite Rednet D16R AES
<https://us.focusrite.com/ethernet-audio-interfaces/rednet-d16-aes>*
to the *RME HDSPe AES32
<https://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/hdspe_aes.php>*
3. The *RME HDSPe AES32
<https://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/hdspe_aes.php>* inputs to
Jack-Audio <http://www.jackaudio.org/> with *jltcdump*
<https://github.com/x42/ltc-tools>


2. I think that the card is the wrong recognized because I got *RME
AES32* instead of

*RME HDSPe AES32 <https://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/hdspe_aes.php> *
- Output of aplay -l :

***** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices *****

*card 0: HDSPMx99e606 [RME AES32_99e606], device 0: RME AES32 [RME AES32]*

* Subdevices: 0/1*

* Subdevice #0: subdevice #0*


Do you know what is the process for getting ALSA tech/dev support ?

I got a deadline at the end of the week, after that I won't be free again,
any kind of help is really appreciated.

Thank you all.

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi Remy,

I can't help you with your issue, but I at least can report my
experiences with another HDSPe card.

The following output speaks for itself.

[***@archlinux ~]$ hdspconf

HDSPConf 1.4 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <***@undata.org>
This program comes WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
HDSPConf is free software, see the file copying for details

Looking for HDSP cards :
Card 0 : RME AIO S/N 0x579bcc at 0xf7d00000, irq 16
Card 1 : TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xd040, irq 16
Card 3 : HDA Intel HDMI at 0xf7e10000 irq 30
No Hammerfall DSP card found.

However, hdspmixer works, but it seemingly is anything else, but close
to the current version of TotalMix.

I bought the card 6 years ago and never got access to more than 2 of
the 8 ADAT I/Os.

I'm using the RME card to mix music, because the audio quality of the
analog outputs is superb, but if I should need many I/Os and lowest
latency, I'm using a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20. In my experiences USB
allows lower latency, than PCIe does, let alone that in my case all
I/Os of the Focusride are available.

With the HDSPe AIO Ardour with ALSA instead of jackd doesn't work. This
seems to be an issue for some cards and at least the AIO is one of them.

I used the RME card with an AMD machine and now I'm using it with an
Intel machine.

Regards,
Ralf

[***@archlinux ~]$ uname -a
Linux archlinux 4.9.13-rt12-1-rt-persianrug #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Wed Mar 8
02:21:10 CET 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux