[PlanetCCRMA] RME versus Steinberg HDSP

[jipi]

how's your Linux box setup previously?

any details?

jipi

Mark Knecht wrote:

> Never used the Steinberg card but a friend who manages the GC here in 
> San Jose told me it's the same as the RME card.
>
> FYI - I could never get my HDSP 9652 to work correctly under Linux and 
> moved it to a Windows box where it and I are much happier with each 
> other. I think others have had some better luck. Get an update from 
> happy users before you go down the path I went down with that card.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
> mjnoble wrote:
>
>> hi folks,
>>
>> After tinkering for many a year I finally have some money to invest 
>> in a new soundcard to get a dedicated linux audio machine up and 
>> running.  I have been offered a Steinberg Nuendo HDSP 9652 card 
>> pretty cheap, but am unsure if this will work play nice with the ALSA 
>> drivers for the standard RME HDSP 9652.  As far as I can tell, the 
>> Steinberg card is just a rebadged RME HDSP, but I can't be sure.  Can 
>> anyone on the list verify this?  I searched the ALSA archives but 
>> didn't come up with anything.  The following by Fernando got me 
>> worried there might be more to it than simple rebadging;
>>
>>> sometimes RME will release a new version of the card and it will
>>> take a while for the new pci id to be supported by ALSA.
>>>  
>>>
>> although the steinberg website just directs visitors to the RME 
>> website for PC and Mac drivers so again there can't be any major 
>> hardware differences.  Anybody know anything more about the Steinberg 
>> cards?
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Michael Noble
>>
>>
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