[linux-audio-user] Tascam US122 MIDI Troubles

[Rui Nuno Capela]

Julian Squires wrote:
> "Dan Easley" <daneasley at gmail.com> writes:
>> MIDI did work but now doesn't.  It shows up in QJackCtl's window, but
>> no MIDI signals are passed through; even more telling, the MIDI IN LED
>> on the unit doesn't light.  I've tested the controller with a BCR2000
>> and it works fine; have also tried another controller with the Tascam.
>>  Again, the ports are apparently recognized by ALSA - in addition,
>> audio works fine.  I'm guessing it's a hardware failure of the Tascam,
>> and I'll need to replace the unit, but I wanted to ask if you all can
>> think of anything else linux-related I'm not thinking of.
> 
> I use a Tascam US-122 on various Linux/PPC machines, and I've had this
> happen before.  I wish I could say exactly what it is, but I'm pretty
> sure it's a software misconfiguration.  I think each time, it must have
> been caused by upgrades I did, but I never paid sufficiently close
> attention, alas.  Check whether you have the usb-midi kernel module
> loaded (in addition to all the usx2y stuff), et cetera.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 

This seems to be a known issue on alsa-driver, that crept around version 
1.0.9. It was fixed since 1.0.9b. Check it out.

Cheers.
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