Re: [RDD] Tascam US-122

2015-02-17 Thread Mark Emanuele
OK I now decided to use Ubuntu studio 14 LTS  as the Base OS.  I was able to
get the US-122 support to install (the green USB light lights up on the
US-122, I also see the card in alsamixer).  Now I am trying to get Jack to
recognize it, and I seem to be able to see it in qjackctl ( there are 2
USX2Y choices: 1) hw:USX2Y 2) hw:USX2Y,0 audio.  Which one should I use?

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From: rivendell-dev-boun...@lists.rivendellaudio.org
[mailto:rivendell-dev-boun...@lists.rivendellaudio.org] On Behalf Of Lamar
Owen
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 11:25 AM
To: rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org
Subject: Re: [RDD] Tascam US-122

On 02/13/2015 10:10 AM, Morten Krarup Nielsen wrote:
 It's the plain old US-122 (without L or MKII)

I actually was asking Mark which one he had, as he is the original poster.
I know which one the howto is written for, and how old that howto is (Fedora
Core 5 is in the CentOS 5 age range).  I remember trying several years back
(prior to the release of CentOS 6) to get my
US-428 (and later a US-224) to work, and finally just using AVLinux instead,
since it worked out of the box with AVLinux with no extra tweaks required.
I did get it working with Fedora 14 several years back, which would be very
similar to getting it to work on CentOS 6, but I've misplaced my notes on
the details necessary.

I have a US-144 (which needs the US-122L driver and a USB 1.1 port or hub to
work, and acts like a US-122L, and it works out of the box on CentOS 7).  I
also have a US-428 and a US-224, which act more like the older US-122 and
need the whole us-x2y stack, which is present in CentOS 7, but I've not
physically tried it as yet.

For the usx2y stack, you can get the two main rpms you will need from the
linuxtech repo (see http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
for a link), or you can use the LinuxTECH backports repo and pull in a newer
ALSA stack.  The two core rpms you need are alsa-tools and
alsa-tools-firmware.  You will then need to find the actual firmware.  
CentOS 7 includes these packages out of the box, but CentOS 6 does not.

You could alternatively attempt to install the alsa-tools and
alsa-tools-firmware from the updates of Fedora 12 (for x86_64, a direct link
to the first of these is
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/12/x86_64/alsa
-tools-1.0.22-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm
).  Fedora 12 shipped ALSA 1.0.20; Fedora 13 shipped 1.0.23, and EL6 shipped
1.0.22.  Likewise, you could attempt to install the alsa-firmware package
from either F12 or F13 even though there will be version skew.  It helps to
remember that EL6 is something of a hybrid of
F12 and F13 with other versions of packages thrown in, and many packages
yanked out.  Many F12 and F13 (and even F14) packages will install just fine
in EL6, but since updates have been backported into EL6 many will now, so
that might or might not work. The LinuxTECH packages are built with updated
EL6, but there's not an alsa-firmware package there.  And the F12/13/14
packages will not get updated, so installer, beware.

I hope some of that scatteredness helps a bit.  These older Tascam USB
interfaces have been orphaned by Tascam, but they still provide excellent
converters and excellent quality.  The control surfaces on the
US-428 and US-224 can be made to work on Ardour/Mixbus, too, and bring more
of a traditional mix experience to working in that DAW.

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Re: [RDD] Tascam US-122

2015-02-14 Thread Mark Emanuele
Thanks, I have both the plain old 122 and a 122L.  I'll try this and see if
any of these suggestions work

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-Original Message-
From: Lamar Owen [mailto:lo...@pari.edu] 
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 11:25 AM
To: rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org
Subject: Re: [RDD] Tascam US-122

On 02/13/2015 10:10 AM, Morten Krarup Nielsen wrote:
 It's the plain old US-122 (without L or MKII)

I actually was asking Mark which one he had, as he is the original poster.
I know which one the howto is written for, and how old that howto is (Fedora
Core 5 is in the CentOS 5 age range).  I remember trying several years back
(prior to the release of CentOS 6) to get my
US-428 (and later a US-224) to work, and finally just using AVLinux instead,
since it worked out of the box with AVLinux with no extra tweaks required.
I did get it working with Fedora 14 several years back, which would be very
similar to getting it to work on CentOS 6, but I've misplaced my notes on
the details necessary.

I have a US-144 (which needs the US-122L driver and a USB 1.1 port or hub to
work, and acts like a US-122L, and it works out of the box on CentOS 7).  I
also have a US-428 and a US-224, which act more like the older US-122 and
need the whole us-x2y stack, which is present in CentOS 7, but I've not
physically tried it as yet.

For the usx2y stack, you can get the two main rpms you will need from the
linuxtech repo (see http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
for a link), or you can use the LinuxTECH backports repo and pull in a newer
ALSA stack.  The two core rpms you need are alsa-tools and
alsa-tools-firmware.  You will then need to find the actual firmware.  
CentOS 7 includes these packages out of the box, but CentOS 6 does not.

You could alternatively attempt to install the alsa-tools and
alsa-tools-firmware from the updates of Fedora 12 (for x86_64, a direct link
to the first of these is
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/12/x86_64/alsa
-tools-1.0.22-1.fc12.x86_64.rpm
).  Fedora 12 shipped ALSA 1.0.20; Fedora 13 shipped 1.0.23, and EL6 shipped
1.0.22.  Likewise, you could attempt to install the alsa-firmware package
from either F12 or F13 even though there will be version skew.  It helps to
remember that EL6 is something of a hybrid of
F12 and F13 with other versions of packages thrown in, and many packages
yanked out.  Many F12 and F13 (and even F14) packages will install just fine
in EL6, but since updates have been backported into EL6 many will now, so
that might or might not work. The LinuxTECH packages are built with updated
EL6, but there's not an alsa-firmware package there.  And the F12/13/14
packages will not get updated, so installer, beware.

I hope some of that scatteredness helps a bit.  These older Tascam USB
interfaces have been orphaned by Tascam, but they still provide excellent
converters and excellent quality.  The control surfaces on the
US-428 and US-224 can be made to work on Ardour/Mixbus, too, and bring more
of a traditional mix experience to working in that DAW.



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Re: [RDD] Tascam US-122

2015-02-13 Thread Morten Krarup Nielsen
It's the plain old US-122 (without L or MKII)

2015-02-12 19:07 GMT+01:00 Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu:

 On 02/11/2015 07:18 PM, Mark Emanuele wrote:


 How do I get my Tascam US-122 to be used by the centos linux OS and
 Rivendell? ( I am using the latest combined centos/Rivendell install)


  Which US-122 do you have?  Is it the US-122, the US-122L, or US-122MKII?

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Re: [RDD] Tascam US-122

2015-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen

On 02/11/2015 07:18 PM, Mark Emanuele wrote:


How do I get my Tascam US-122 to be used by the centos linux OS and 
Rivendell? ( I am using the latest combined centos/Rivendell install)




Which US-122 do you have?  Is it the US-122, the US-122L, or US-122MKII?

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Re: [RDD] Tascam US-122

2015-02-12 Thread Morten Krarup Nielsen
I used this guide a couple of years ago on a CentOS 6 installation:
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mcs/tascam_us122/
It was not easy to get to work, but it's a fine USB mixer when I got it to
work

2015-02-12 1:18 GMT+01:00 Mark Emanuele memanu...@wifiam1460.com:

 How do I get my Tascam US-122 to be used by the centos linux OS and
 Rivendell? ( I am using the latest combined centos/Rivendell install)



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