Re: Reply to Tim and HZN regarding comments on Tascam US-122 on Lucid
Am Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:09:18 +0100 schrieb Hartmut Noack : > In short: try a differnt distro. My first recommendations would be > AVLinux Yes, an AVLinux DVD is always handy -- it's a pre-configured live system that you don't need to install to do audio work with. Just try it once; see if your tascam is detected there and then one could also try to identify what's missing in ubuntu. Meanwhile, you indeed can get some work done in AVLinux itself. Though, the current version has funny ardour2 behaviour when you try to disconnect/reconnect to JACK (it crashes with a wine dialog box, I guess the VST support is to blame). As long as you don't do that, you can get recordings done. I did;-) But AVLinux is not that convenient when you want to install it as everyday system, IMHO. It is great when the existing collection of software does the job for you, though. And its rather static nature makes it easy not to bother for updates that just could break your working setup;-) > (should have Alsa-firmwareloader on board) and Pure:Dyne. But > OpenSuse or Mandriva may do the job as well and they can be tweaked > quite easily for realtime-audio. > I run Fedora plus CCRMA and OpenSuse 11.2 plus jengelh-Kernel and > pack-man packages. Both work very good for me... I must say that ubuntu studio 10.04 also works nicely now for me. I got a recent kernel from "the" PPA (just forgot which one, but there is only one realtime/lowlatency/... variant for lucid, as I recall) and built Ardour 2 myself to get the most recent version. I don't have much to complain right now (even with the FireWire setup;-). I'm don't exactly remember anymore what I did do to pulseaudio, but I do have things set up so that all sound goes through JACK. > best of luck ;-) And don't forget to "Have fun"! ;-) Alrighty then, Thomas. PS: And yes, I would prefer a more rugged, stable Ardour 2 instead of Ardour 3 that can do MIDI with another ton of bugs:-/ Have to look into traverso again ... signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- 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: Reply to Tim and HZN regarding comments on Tascam US-122 on Lucid
Am 10.01.2011 06:45, schrieb Casey Forslund: Hey you two - thank you SO much for the reply and your suggestions/questions around my struggles with the Tascam US-122 and Lucid. You are welcome :-) HZN: Yup, I tried the ALSA tutorial you suggested ( http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Tascam_US-122) about a week ago to no avail (no green light on the unit). I think I may just have to switch to a different distro as you suggested, as nothing anyone has suggested has worked for me so far. Either that or just keep using Windows to use it, which seems so cheezy though, as I'm using Ubuntu 'STUDIO', a flavor of Ubuntu that is supposed to focus on audio/video users etc. I am absolutely with you and "cheesy" is quite perfectly a word to describe the situation. I made the experience, that the best thing about Linux/free software is independence. So it would not be wise to depend on one specific distro. Ubuntu is not Linux, it is just one flavour and Ubuntu Studio is much more Ubuntu than it is Studio. In short: try a differnt distro. My first recommendations would be AVLinux (should have Alsa-firmwareloader on board) and Pure:Dyne. But OpenSuse or Mandriva may do the job as well and they can be tweaked quite easily for realtime-audio. I run Fedora plus CCRMA and OpenSuse 11.2 plus jengelh-Kernel and pack-man packages. Both work very good for me... best of luck ;-) HZN -- 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
Reply to Tim and HZN regarding comments on Tascam US-122 on Lucid
Hey you two - thank you SO much for the reply and your suggestions/questions around my struggles with the Tascam US-122 and Lucid. Tim: I'm blown away too that I hadn't heard of this amazing mailing list! I just learned about it at the end of reading 'the official Ubuntu book'. Writing in, I didn't know what to expect, but was thinking I'd probably get a message like: "this isn't the proper place to ask questions like this". I have been truly shocked to see how many informative and intuitive questions and replies have come back over the last couple days! Thank you all : ) To get down to the nitty gritty, yes, the US-122 is working fine with Windows Vista right now, but as I am in love with the whole ethos of Ubuntu, I want to migrate completely to Ubuntu if possible, but this hardware hangup has been really, really frustrating. http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Tascam_US-122#Initial_Setup https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TASCAM_US-122 I have followed both of the above the tutorials previously (and modified for newer alsa firmware versions, usb ports etc. etc.) along with about 4 others, but none of them even get my green light to fire up. I'm at the point where I'm wondering if during the hours and hours of trying all of these similar tutorials, I have messed up a setting and now the question is, how to I backtrack to a clean slate again so that if I do come across a tutorial that works, changes I have made in past attempts don't give me a false negative. HZN: Yup, I tried the ALSA tutorial you suggested ( http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Tascam_US-122) about a week ago to no avail (no green light on the unit). I think I may just have to switch to a different distro as you suggested, as nothing anyone has suggested has worked for me so far. Either that or just keep using Windows to use it, which seems so cheezy though, as I'm using Ubuntu 'STUDIO', a flavor of Ubuntu that is supposed to focus on audio/video users etc. Don't get me wrong - I am truly amazed at Ubuntu/Studio overall, considering it is open source etc.etc. The thing is that I remember reading a section in 'the official Ubuntu book' where the author goes on in great detail, comparing the infirior Windows system of needing drivers, versus the Linux/Ubuntu system of beleiving hardware should work right out of the box. I know it is a vastly complicated thing to keep track of all the hardware out there on this tech crazed planet, year after year, but I just feel I was sold on something and have been let down. I have POURED hours over this issue, and still no cigar. I'll explore your suggestions of pulse and jack as well, as I haven't tinkered too much with them yet. I see that there are many more replies to the initial message I sent out, so I'll look them over and keep y'all posted. Grateful for your comments and interest (the Ubuntu community is SO cool!), Casey -- 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
