RE: Jack and Firewire
Tim,
I'm not sure how low latency kernel XFCE is using,
but I'm using it for the base of my audio system
because it has FFADO, JAck2 available in repo so I
don't need to compile to get my Personus Firestudio
26x26 working in linux.
Here is an un-polished newest version of instructions
that I'll post to my website when I clean them up a bit.
Make sure you have each of these things in your setup
as a beginning point.
Also when I get that error, I repeat the command and
it may work the next time.
At the end is output from my working Presonus
Firestudio.
Work in progress...
Comments and corrections welcome!!
Bob
Draft instructions below:
Make sure whatever interface you are using works in
whatever operating system there are drivers available
for.
Download the 32-bit version of XFCE from
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1818
(I haven't tested 64bit yet.)
Allow the system to update through Update Manager.
In Synaptic, add:
ffado-dBus-server, ffado-mixer-qt4, ffado-tools,
libffado-dev, libfaddo2,
jack2d-firewire (other dependcies will also add).
Not necessary, but I also add: jack-mixer, jacktrip,
pulseaudio-module-jack, silentjack.
Close synaptic.
Open File Manager, navigate to /usr/share/,
right-click on libffado2 and choose "open folder as
root". Enter password if needed.
Open the configuration file in gedit,
add these lines to the file to fit the obvious format
(use cut and paste):
{
vendorid = 0x000a92;
modelid = 0x0008;
vendorname = "Presonus";
modelname = "Firestudio 26x26";
driver = 20;
},
ctrl-f and enter your interface name to look for your
interface manufacturer,
Start Menu | System | Users and Groups
Add your user name to these groups by couble-clicking
on each and checkboxing your user name:
audio, disk, video
*** may not be neededOpen File Manager,
navigate to /etc/security/, right-click on limits.d
and choose "open folder as root". Enter password if
needed. Check if audio.conf is present. It needs
these lines:
@audio - rtprio 99
@audio - memlock unlimited
*
Navigate to /etc/udev/, right-click on rules.d and
choose "open folder as root". Enter password if
needed.
Right-click on empty space in the rules.d folder and
choose "create document | empty file" and name it
50-udev-firewire.rules. Paste GROUP=="audio" into
the file and save it.
Connect your firewire interface and power it on.
Start Qjackctl by Start Menu | Multimedia | Qjackctl.
Open setup, choose firewire from the driver drop-down
menu.
Make sure Realtime is checked.
Add 85 to the priority window, choose 256 from the
Frames/Period window,
Only check verbose if you have trouble starting jack
in the next steps.
Click "OK".
Click on "start" and see what happens. If you also
click on "messages", this is the output that my
Presonus 26x26 produces after I press "stop":
10:10:09.012 Patchbay deactivated.
10:10:09.103 Statistics reset.
10:10:09.115 ALSA connection change.
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or
directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
10:10:09.158 ALSA connection graph change.
10:10:13.143 JACK is starting...
10:10:13.144 /usr/bin/jackd -P85 -dfirewire -r48000
-p256 -n3
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or
directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
no message buffer overruns
10:10:13.247 JACK was started with PID=3370.
no message buffer overruns
jackdmp 1.9.7
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2011 Grame.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to
redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for
details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 85
libffado 2.999.0- built Apr 2 2011 11:55:07
06567801151: [31mWarning (dice_eap.cpp)[ 113] init:
no EAP mixer (device does not support EAP)
[0m DICE Parameter Space info:
Global : offset=0x0028 size=0360
TX : offset=0x0190 size=0568
nb= 2 size=0280
RX : offset=0x03C8 size=1128
nb= 2 size=0280
UNUSED1 : offset=0x0830 size=0016
UNUSED2 : offset=0x size=
Global param space:
Owner : 0x
Notification : 0x0040
Nick name : FIRESTUDIO
Clock Select : 0x02 0x0C
Enable : false
Clock Status : locked 0x02
Extended Status : 0x
Samplerate : 0xBB80 (48000)
Version : 0x01000400
Version : 0x01000400 (1.0.4.0)
Clock caps : 0x13FF001E
Clock sources :
SPDIF
ADAT
Word Clock
Unused
Unused
Unused
Unused
Internal
TX param space:
Nb of xmit : 2
Transmitter 0:
ISO channel : -1
ISO speed : 2
Nb audio channels : 16
Nb midi channels : 1
AC3 caps : 0x
AC3 enable : 0x
Channel names :
Mic/Inst 1
Mic/Inst 2
Mic/Line 3
Mic/Line 4
Mic/Line 5
Mic/Line 6
Mic/Line 7
Mic/Line 8
ADAT 1
ADAT 2
ADAT 3
ADAT 4
ADAT 5
ADAT 6
ADAT 7
ADAT 8
Transmitter 1:
ISO channel : -1
ISO speed : 2
Nb audio channels : 10
Nb midi channels : 0
AC3 caps : 0x
AC3 enable : 0x
Channel names :
ADAT 9
ADA
RE: Re: Spectrum3d : software that displays the harmonics of the soundin 3D
Victor,
Yes it works, though a little slow on this test
machine p4 1.6ghz, 756 MBRam, but I by know means
have it optimized for this. There is a 5 sec delay
between speaking into sound card mic and seeing the
display. I have ten test machines with different
os's, up to a quad core 2.8ghz and 8gb ram, so I can
try many different ways.
I already had libgtk2.0-dev, but still got errors
during make (not during ./configure) about missing
libgtk+-2...
So I compiled it from source, after meeting several
of it's dependencies.
I have notes on all this on the test machine if you
are interested.
Bob
231-499-3352
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>From: Victor henri[mailto:nada...@hotmail.com]
Sent: 5/8/2011 1:19:41 PM
To : ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Cc :
Subject : RE: Re: Spectrum3d : software that displays
the harmonics of the soundin 3D
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Hello Bob
> Victor,
> I'm very interested in checking this out, but I'm not
> finding ppa's for
>
> libgtk+...
You are probably looking for libgtk2.0-dev package,
which is in the official packages of Debian (
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libgtk2.0-dev );
if you install this, you should have all it's
dependencies installed with it.
You do not need anyaditional PPA for Spectrum3d :
everything should be in the repositories (with an
exception for Geis : it is in the repo for Natty; for
Debian, I think it is not available yet unless you
build it yourself from sources in the *testing*
version only)
Please let me know if you have any trouble and thank
you for your interrest
Victor
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RE: Spectrum3d : software that displays the harmonics of the sound in 3D
Victor, I'm very interested in checking this out, but I'm not finding ppa's for libgtk+... I'm using the latest xfce based on debian. I found this: deb http://hadret.rootnode.net/debian/ experimental main but it doesn't produce libgtk+-dev in synaptic. I have downloaded a tar-gz, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/2.20.0-0ubuntu4 but I can't find -dev in it (not very familiar with source installs), and would rather install in a package manager. Any help would be welcome. Thank you, Bob Hamil 231-499-3352 --- Original Message --- >From: Victor henri[mailto:nada...@hotmail.com] Sent: 5/5/2011 3:19:46 PM To : ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Cc : Subject : RE: Spectrum3d : software that displays the harmonics of the sound in 3D Hello I'd like to introduce Spectrum3d, a new software that displays harmonics of the sound in 3D, with openGL. Audio source can be the microphone or an audio file, and it is Jack compatible. Optionally, it can be run in real-time when not runing with Jack; also optionally, it can receive multitouch input (either from touchscreen, or from touchpad). X represents frequencies, Y represents amplitude of each frequencies and Z represents time. The perspective can be changed either by rotating or by translating the display around or along the 3 axis without limitations. Here is a quick link to a demo video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCVxDNbcqRE It can be found here : http://www.presences.org/download/spectrum3d-0.2.2.tar.bz2 And here is a link to a tutorial explaining how it works : http://www.presences.org/spectrum3d_tutorial_en.html It is free and under GPL licence. It uses the Gtk+, SDL, OpenGL, Gstreamer and uTouch-Geis free librairies. It works on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04, but should work on other distributions also. It is still beta; testers are welcome. Thank you for your attention. Victor -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
RE: Trying to install lucid beta on a SCSI box, plus need to get GSM/3Gmodem dialup...
Thomas, I have gotten my moto rokrz6m? connecting to the internet in Ubuntu and mint with the script from http://sakis.tel4u.gr/blog/sakis3g/ and you may need 9menu installed But right now things only connect at analog speeds, but I think this is specific to my phone or provider as it also is on winXP. Not to hijack the thread, This is becoming a showstopper for me, as soon I will need the faster speeds for an annual project in July, but calls to Alltel-now-Verizon seem thoroughly explored by them, but they say there is nothing wrong!!! Google searches haven't found any info about how to track this further. Any help would be much appreciated. I hope others can help you with the other issues. Bob Hamil >--- Original Message --- >From: Thomas Orgis[mailto:thomas-fo...@orgis.org] >Sent: 4/2/2010 6:19:08 PM >To : ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com >Cc : >Subject : RE: Trying to install lucid beta on a SCSI box, plus need to get GSM/3Gmodem dialup... > >Hi folks, In an attempt to lessen the scare factor of Linux I tried to install ubuntu studio on a machine that so far uses a rather custom Source Mage system. The setup consists of a Athlon64 X2 (really using 64 bit OS, too) on some Asrock mainboard (I don't like that one, really) with integrated graphics, PCIe Firewire card, Adaptec U160 SCSI controller with 3 10K rpm drives. Oh, and there's a IDE DVD-RW and SATA DVD-ROM, too. There is also a USB card reader built in which seems to have higher priority for the ubuntu kernel, so the first disk is /dev/sdf . In my custom system I have the SCSI driver built in and it's sda as it should be. The Audio interface is an Edirol FA-101, but I'm not yet at evaluating usage of that. My first experience with the ubuntu studio 10.4 beta (9.10 simply is too old -- I'd have to immediately recompile a fresher ardour2) can be summarized as follows: 1. Install goes fine, just except that it fails to install the boot manager. Both grub and lilo fail, without explanation. I really miss some error messages there... I have stored install logs (there in the box, not here with me now) but a glimpse in there also didn't show anything. For now I assume that there is some confusion because of the unusual setup of /dev/sdX actually being SCSI:-/ I managed to restore my old boot manager (after some fighting because of the mismatch of disk order between the kernels... lilo doesn't like the disk order differing between system to boot and the rescue system where lilo is installed from)... and was able to add an entry for ubuntu studio to it. 2. The boot attempts fail for default parameters. Because I have SCSI. I remember that from earlier times while building the studio system: I ruled out ubuntu because of this bug: The boot drops to busybox, complaining that the root device is not there -- but when you look in the shell, it is there immediately. This is fixed by an annoyingly huge rootdelay parameter (like, 90 seconds). I am disappointed that this still prevails... and it's the same old workaround. This worked with older systems -- also with initrds! Well... after fixing up boot parameters... I was able to get into the system. 3. Next problem: I need internet. Ubuntu doesn't really fly without internet, right? I was surprised not to find the network manager (or wicd, whatever) happily waiting for me to automagically get my network fun -- this is ubuntu, after all. I have been told that this is by intention since network manager had bad interaction with the realtime kernel. But I also have been told that this might not be an actual problem today. I tried to install the network manager via synaptic... selecting the DVD as package source (as the .debs indeed are present there), but synaptic keeps complaining... and wants to remove the language support package all the time -- I suppose it could be fixed with missing components once I have internet connection ... Anyhow, I managed to install some packages... the manager, the gnome applet.. providerdata. I was even able to configure the 3G dialup connection with proper provider etc, but: The manager applet doesn't not recognize my modem (huawei e160) The kernel has the correct driver loaded, /dev/ttyUSB* exist, but network manager doesn't see it? I guess I could get it running using the custom script and wvdial ... what I do on the custom Source Mage install... but since this is ubuntu -- how am I supposed to get the 3G dialup working? 4. Whatever the plymouth daemon does... I've seen notification of it crashing. I hope it's nothing vital. Well, that's it for now... The boot manager install would be a showstopper for the average creative people... I might try to reproduce that on another test system with a similar SCSI controller, but my time for experiments on the studio box is limited. There I would prefer to get the system into a workable
RE: No success with EchoAudio FireWire 12
Simon, I am far from one of the experts here, so they may have better info, but this is what I see: jackd... is starting Jack1, I think you need to run Jack2 for firewire, which may need to be compiled. I run a PreSonus FireStudio 26x26 on firewire which needs FFADO and Jack2 compiled from SVN. Echo is supported in FFADO, but I don't know how much less work that means you need to do. I hope that helps, Bob Hamil --- Original Message --- >From: S. Josey[mailto:s...@mr-goster.com] Sent: 11/22/2009 8:40:57 AM To : ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Cc : Subject : RE: No success with EchoAudio FireWire 12 Hello, I have recently made a fresh install of Ubuntu Studio 9.10 and tried to get it to work with my EchoAudio 12. I have followed the instructions at Ubuntu Studio Preparation ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioPreparation) and FireWire Audio in Ubuntu Studio ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FireWire) and everything checks out correctly. However, when I try to start JACK, this is the error message I get: 21:28:44.769 Patchbay deactivated. 21:28:44.773 Statistics reset. 21:28:44.823 ALSA connection graph change. 21:28:45.020 ALSA connection change. 21:28:48.791 Startup script... 21:28:48.792 artsshell -q terminate sh: artsshell: not found 21:28:49.195 Startup script terminated with exit status=32512. 21:28:49.195 JACK is starting... 21:28:49.196 /usr/bin/jackd -R -P70 -t1000 -dfirewire -dhw:0 -r44100 -p128 -n2 -i12 -o12 no message buffer overruns jackd 0.116.1 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK compiled with System V SHM support. 21:28:49.215 JACK was started with PID=2848. loading driver .. 01024651260: (ffado.cpp)[ 92] ffado_streaming_init: libffado 1.999.43 built Sep 17 2009 20:03:51 firewire ERR: Error creating FFADO streaming device cannot load driver module firewire no message buffer overruns 21:28:49.533 JACK was stopped successfully. 21:28:49.534 Post-shutdown script... 21:28:49.534 killall jackd jackd: no process found 21:28:49.946 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256. 21:28:51.232 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the messages window for more info. Can anyone advise me how to overcome this error and get JACK working. Thank you in advance. Simon -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
