raid517

Oh well that's useful, nice to see the forum has been merged. No need to registed for yet another forum.

My question is, will there ever be a KX project driver for Linux?

I like the look of KX mixer and the drivers are generally good, and would certainly better than anything included in Linux at the moment. Just a thought. I wonderd why the devs would use so much time and resources on MS windows. (Not that I'm bitching about windows, I like both...)

Also, how do I enable digital sound output in KX mixer? I could never quite figure that one out...

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RIV@NVX

most probably no.
look at opensource.creative.com

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Soeren_B

Actually the opensource driver, (which - in spite the fact that it previously was located at opensource.creative.com until the site got hacked - was not maintained by Creative) has a internal structure that resembles the kX drivers in terms of programming the DSP. What the driver really needs is a patch bay similar to the kX DSP window. A bunch of DSP effects already exist, but they are very hard to use without a visual clue to how they are connected.

The 'responsible' programmers seems to have stopped development (for the time being). Perhaps they will pick it up as the demand for Audigy2 drivers increases.

Cheers
Soeren

Eugene Gavrilov

well, actually we currently don't have plans porting the driver to Linux, simply because there are no low-latency audio applications available as well as low-latency interfaces (such as ASIO).

however, we are currently converting the mixer code to be platform-independent [the kernel driver is already OS-independent, but requires a special 'abstraction' layer in order to support Linux]

so, the linux port might appear in the future
but don't expect it soon...

/Eugene

Eugene Gavrilov

actually, the DSP supporting code used in opensource driver is not compatible with the kX DSP interface and will require its internals to be completely re-written

/Eugene

Soeren_B

Of course
I was mentioning the fact that it is programable like kX - yet very difficult to use.

/Soeren

raid517

Ok well maybe porting the current KX driver might not be so easy, but there is the creative Linux driver - and since they appear to have stopped work on this - and since it is open source - and also since you guys beat the pants off anyone else at this sort of thing, couldn't you run with the open source creative drivers and adapt these and the KX mixer to work together? ( I would still prefer genuine KX drivers though). I understand what you have said - and your reservations so far, but you guys are definately smart enough to fix all these things - and if your doing open source, isn't linux a better open source platform to design for anyway? At least you would have complete transparancy...

Just a thought... I know it means work.. But KX drivers are cool and KX mixer is very pretty. They would bring two things to Linux that it lacks at present, good creative driver support and good (easy to use) mixing tools...

As usual I think we would wait forever if we were to wait for creative to come up with a viable Linux solution... They are slow enough delivering Windows based solutions, but Linux is still virtually ignored by them - or at best support is extremely patchy...

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