<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">despite the hubblub out there about firewire audio not being supported by linux, all i had to do was:<br><b>sudo gedit /etc/default/rtirq</b><span class="" id="line-104"></span><span class="" id="line-105"></span></span><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">change<br></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="" id="line-106"></span><span class="" id="line-107"></span><span class="" id="line-108"></span><span class="" id="line-109"></span><span class="" id="line-110"></span></span></p><pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="" id="line-1-5"></span>RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="rtc snd usb i8042"<br>to <br></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="rtc <b>firewire</b> snd usb i8042"</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="" id="line-2"></span><br><br>&<br><br><span class="" id="line-3"></span>RTIRQ_NONE_THREADED="rtc snd"<br>to</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="" id="line-113"></span><span class="" id="line-114"></span><span class="" id="line-115"></span><span class="" id="line-116"></span><span class="" id="line-117"></span><br>RTIRQ_NON_THREADED="rtc <b>firewire</b> snd"<br><br>open <b>qjackctl</b> -> click Setup -> change settings to<br></span></pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Driver: <b>firewire</b> (This selects the ffado driver stack) <span class="" id="line-133"></span></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Interface: hw:0 <span class="" id="line-134"></span></span><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Audio:Duplex (or Capture only)<span class="" id="line-135"></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Check Realtime <span class="" id="line-136"></span></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Priority: (default) <span class="" id="line-137"></span></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Frames/Period: <b>128</b> <span class="" id="line-138"></span></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sample Rate: 44100 (</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">adjust the sample rate to the specs of your fw device)</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Periods/Buffer: 3<br><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">see more <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FireWire/oldPages/Firewire03#Set_IRQ_Priorities">here</a><br><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">we can record over 21 separate channels <br>:)<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><div><div><pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></pre><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div></div>