[LAU] Zoom H4n as interface / no duplex

acousmetre acousmetre at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 10:40:36 UTC 2011


Hello,

I have a Zoom H4n recorder and would like to use it as an interface on a
laptop with Ubuntu 10.04.. I've succeeded in using it to record and to
play audio independently via jack but not together in duplex mode. 

I've read on the web that people have used the H4n with full duplex. Can
anyone suggest what might be wrong with my set up?

No problems using the built-in sound card of the laptop in duplex mode
with jack. 

I'll paste below the verbose messages from qjackctl.

Cheers,

Iain


07:23:26.322 Patchbay activated.

07:23:26.334 Statistics reset.

07:23:26.339 ALSA connection change.

07:23:26.356 Startup script...

07:23:26.357 artsshell -q terminate

07:23:26.402 ALSA connection graph change.

sh: artsshell: not found

07:23:26.829 Startup script terminated with exit status=32512.

07:23:26.830 JACK is starting...

07:23:26.830 /usr/bin/jackd -v -dalsa -dhw:1 -r48000 -p256 -n3 -Xseq

jackd 0.118.0

Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben Hohn
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

getting driver descriptor from /usr/lib/jack/jack_oss.so

getting driver descriptor from /usr/lib/jack/jack_net.so

getting driver descriptor from /usr/lib/jack/jack_dummy.so

getting driver descriptor from /usr/lib/jack/jack_alsa.so

getting driver descriptor from /usr/lib/jack/jack_firewire.so

07:23:26.845 JACK was started with PID=5059.

no message buffer overruns

JACK compiled with System V SHM support.

server `default' registered

loading driver ..

registered builtin port type 32 bit float mono audio

registered builtin port type 8 bit raw midi

clock source = system clock via clock_gettime

new client: alsa_pcm, id = 1 type 1 @ 0x84ea9c8 fd = -1

apparent rate = 48000

creating alsa driver ... hw:1|hw:1|256|3|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit

control device hw:1

configuring for 48000Hz, period = 256 frames (5.3 ms), buffer = 3
periods

ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 16bit little-endian

ALSA: use 3 periods for capture

start poll on 3 fd's

ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 16bit little-endian

ALSA: use 3 periods for playback

new buffer size 256

registered port system:capture_1, offset = 1024

registered port system:capture_2, offset = 2048

registered port system:playback_1, offset = 0

registered port system:playback_2, offset = 0

++ jack_sort_graph

++ jack_rechain_graph():

+++ client is now alsa_pcm active ? 1

client alsa_pcm: internal client, execution_order=0.

-- jack_rechain_graph()

-- jack_sort_graph

registered port alsa_pcm:Midi-Through/midi_capture_1, offset = 1024

registered port alsa_pcm:Midi-Through/midi_playback_1, offset = 0

ALSA: could not start playback (Broken pipe)

DRIVER NT: could not start driver

cannot start driver

starting server engine shutdown

server thread back from poll

stopping driver

unloading driver

freeing shared port segments

stopping server thread

stopping watchdog thread

last xrun delay: 0.000 usecs

max delay reported by backend: 0.000 usecs

freeing engine shared memory

max usecs: 0.000, engine deleted

cleaning up shared memory

cleaning up files

unregistering server `default'

07:23:26.937 JACK was stopped successfully.

07:23:26.939 Post-shutdown script...

07:23:26.940 killall jackd

07:23:27.032 ALSA active patchbay scan...

jackd: no process found

07:23:27.354 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256.

07:23:29.044 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall
operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the
messages window for more info.




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