    US428CONTROL - Aplication for enabling direct monitoring, knobs, sliders and wheels
	           of the Tascam US-428 USB soundcard
	    2003-09-29 Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>


GENERAL
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Us428control is a helper program to enable the US-428's knobs, sliders and wheels
for direct monitoring and MIDI interaction via the ALSA Sequencer.
It requires an US-428 driven and initialised by snd-usb-us428 and usx2yloader.
So far only direct monitoring settings, master volume and MIDI output is implemented.
I.e. lights switching is still to be done.


MIDI Mapping
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Is implemented as described in
http://www.tascam.com/pdf/products/computer_recording/us428/controlprotocol.pdf


USAGE
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When us428control is invoked without options, it will probe all existing
soundcards until a valid US428-driver is found.
If a valid US428-driver is found, us428control creates a ALSA Sequencer port 
for interaction with other programs.

Instead of auto-probing, you can specify the card number or the hwdep
device name or the usb device name via -c, -D or -u options, respectively.

	% us428control -c 1
	% us428control -D hw:0
	% us428control -u /proc/bus/usb/001/003

For loading everything automatically in response to a hotplug event
there are the hotplug script files of usx2yloader
 - tascam_fw.usermap
 - tascam_fw
 - tascam_fpga
You also need hotplug to be installed.


COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 2003 Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>
Distributalbe under GPL.
