How much time / $ would it take to update discontinued audio interface driver?
The business of Edirol / Roland is to force new hardware purchases, so they don't want to make any new drivers.
This is quite annoying. I hate the idea of unnecessary waste and obsolescence and the hardware is still good.
I am daydreaming about having an unofficial driver written for it. Crowdsourced, open-sourced, I don't know... but I just have no idea how complicated or time-consuming this could be and whether it's a stupid idea.
Does anyone here have experience of making / updating audio interface drivers? Could anyone say roughly how much work this would be? Hours / weeks / months?
I guess it must be fairly difficult otherwise there'd be loads of unofficial drivers out there but I just have no idea...
(btw sorry if this is the wrong type of post for HN - I didn't know where else to ask)