17 Dec
2017
17 Dec
'17
3:06 p.m.
On 12/17/2017 10:47 AM, Peter wrote:
Dear All,
has someone managed to run successfully focusrite-control.exe inside wine?
I'd really like to access the hardware mixer from Linux.
I have no windows installed on my Laptop, so I can't test whether there is
an issue with the usb ports.
I installed focusrite-control-2.1.7.exe in all kind of different ways,
using wine from kubuntu 17.10, and winehg-staging. All I managed is
that the
programm opens and reports "No Hardware connected", same for the ASIO
control.
I also tried the live version of
io-live--2017.03--e22-k4.14-k4.14-rt1-amd64,
with the same result.
Opening winecfg I can switch to my Scarlett 18i20 and pushing the
button for testing sound it works. I've also installed OpenMPT1.27.02
inside wine
and it works nicely. There, I can even switch to 96kHz, which doesn't
work on ALSA/JACK,
so something is done inside wine, not just passing to the outside.
Hi Peter,
I don't know about wine, but the main issue is that if the device is
used by ALSA (kernel driver), you cannot at the same time access it from
a user-space application (maybe try unloading the ALSA snd-usb module,
but I would not get my hopes up).
The first generation of scarlett-devices is supported by the
Linux-kernel. Since Linux 3.19 there is a dedicated driver to expose the
complete mixer interface and there are also some UIs.
At some point Focusrite changed the USB-IDs, and perhaps also the
protocol. As far as I know, nobody has yet investigated or reverse
engineered those.
Cheers!
robin
see also:
https://focusritedevelopmentteam.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/linux-and-focusri…
https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=15810