[LAU] M-Audio Fast Track Pro: unreliable, distorted recording

[Guillaume Pellerin]

On 30/01/2014 15:14, Lewis Pike wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:04:37AM +0100, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
>> Maybe resetting the JACK buffersize helps, you can do this with
>> jack_bufsize on the command line. Without an option it will prompt
>> the current buffer size, if you then run jack_bufsize with that
>> value the situation might improve. Or you could first use a higher
>> value and then switch back to the former lower value.
>
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> Thanks for your help here; it's much appreciated.  I actually don't
> have JACK installed.  I've really only been using a single application
> at a time so my needs at this stage are rather modest.  I figured the
> added layer of abstraction offered by JACK would only complicate my
> troubleshooting.
>
> I'm really only speculating here, but it seems like the ALSA drivers
> are sometimes improperly initializing the Fast Track Pro.  Why this
> happens only some of the time is strange indeed.
>

Trying with JACK could help us a lot about this bug.

Thanks
G