[linux-audio-user] Tascam US122 MIDI Troubles

[Dan Easley]

> On 4/7/06, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc at rncbc.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> > --
> > rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
> > rncbc at rncbc.org

Just to verify - I updated ALSA to something over 1.0.10, and
everything now works fine.  Thanks again, guys!

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