[rescue] Can someone recommend a UNIX based Digital Audio Workstation?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 02:10:41AM +0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> Granted--I was pointing more towards the ``High-end multi-channel'' aspect  
> of the question,  (although most of these cards may-well, only be supported  
> under the Linux Kernel, and some "other" OS).

There are likely numerous nice cards that would work with OS X.

What I don't understand is why people won't just make highend cards based on
well documented, standard chips.  Even highend 24bit, 96khz is not going
to make a complex card, even if you include 4 DACs and 4 ADCs.  Even 8 or 16
shouldn't be too hard.

Heck.  Such a device could even just speak S/PDIF making it even simpler to
build since it is just a special serial signal (to my understanding).

I wonder how much good chips from crystal cost.  Something along the lines of the CS5360 or CS5397, and the cs4341 or cs4396.  

If you make a simple card, then writing drivers for lots of platforms should be
easy.  I think the easiest way to do it might be USB though, to  remove the 
analog audio from inside the machine, but without having to design your own 
external connection system and deal with syncronization over long distances of 
numerous wires.

diyaudio.de seems to deal with some of this stuff.  It appears that good chips
don't involve too many pins, good for hand soldering.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd