[LAD] Re: snd-firewire-ctl-services 0.1.0 released

This is great. Thank you Takashi.

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> On 19 Apr 2023, at 09:44, Takashi Sakamoto <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a short announcement about a new release of
> snd-firewire-ctl-services project.
> 
> After development for mostly three years[1], version 0.1.0 is released
> today. If you have FireWire audio device and interests in ALSA support,
> the release would be worth to check out.
> 
> * https://github.com/alsa-project/snd-firewire-ctl-services/releases/tag/snd-firewire-ctl-services%2Fv0.1.0
> 
> The project provides user space service programs to operate digital
> signal processing function in devices supported by ALSA firewire stack.
> If using such device, you can configure DSP functions such as the volumes
> of device. For some device, effects such as dynamics and equalizers are
> also configurable. Available devices are listed in README.rst of the
> project.
> 
> The service programs work as 'message broaker'. ALSA control applications
> are available for end-user interface to communicate to the service
> programs[2]. The device connected to IEEE 1394 bus is the peer. The
> service programs receives messages from both ends, then translates and
> convert the messages to send to the opposite end.
> 
> Against your expectation, the project provides neither GUI programs nor
> end-user interfaces. I know that the user experience is heavily on
> look-and-feel on the GUI programs, while it is out of the aim of project.
> I daily use quashctl in QasTools[3] and it is pretty good to me for such
> ALSA control application.
> 
> If encountering any issue, please file it to github repository[4]. README
> should be helpful to new users.
> 
> Thanks for your support and long patience to ALSA firewire stack.
> 
> [1] https://lists.linuxaudio.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/EX4FJ7IIRYM5EDRCYXFXFSABAKYZH3WZ/
> [2] For TASCAM FireWire series, ALSA sequencer application is such end as
>    well to operate control surface.
> [3] https://gitlab.com/sebholt/qastools
> [4] https://github.com/alsa-project/snd-firewire-ctl-services
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Takashi Sakamoto
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