26 Jan
2006
26 Jan
'06
5:52 a.m.
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 03:31 +0100, Björn Lindström
wrote:
Exactly. The transport buttons do send outgouing MMC and reciprocally the
LEDs react to incoming MMC. So, if you make a closed-loop with ardour
you'll have total control over it. Even the jog wheel will do playhead
positioning...
Take note that almost every knob and slider of the US-224 (and also of its
bigger sister, US-428) do send MIDI controller messages. Taking ardour
again as an example, you are free to do arbitrary controller assignment,
at the application side that is
I guess thats what stands for a control surface, something that the US-122
hardly is at all. Phantom power is the only real decisive option on the
US-122. The US-224 really lacks that 48V supply--mostly because it does
already so much with stand-alone USB power :)
Cheers.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc(a)rncbc.org> writes:
See above:
" I specially love its control surface when directing ardour via MMC
(for which I've contributed some code to us428control in alsa-tools,
btw)."
So, I think yes.
Björn Lindström wrote:
On thing I'm wondering about the US-224 is whether you have use of all
the extra controllers. Can you use the transport control buttons with
Ardour, for instance?
I've been offered a slightly used TASCAM
US-224. I see in the sound
card matrix that it should be fully supported by ALSA.
Is anyone here using one of these with multitracking software under
Linux, and what do you think about it? Is it stable, are all its
features supported, and so forth?
As an alternative, I'm considering getting a new US-122. Would there
be any reason at all to go for that one instead, or are they equally
well supported?
I do have a US-224 pumping low-latency full-duplex 2 channel audio on
JACK (-p128 -n2) and full MIDI I/O. I specially love its control
surface when directing ardour via MMC (for which I've contributed some
code to us428control in alsa-tools, btw).
It works great, but not without some attention. You have to take care
about tunning your linux audio system accordingly i.e. using a recent
kernel/alsa-driver (snd-usb-usx2y module). The now famous Ingo
Molnar's realtime-preempt kernel patch is highly recommended if not
mandatory to get the best experience.
OTOH if you can't live without 48v phantom power, then the US-122 is
the right choice. Otherwise the US-224 is a awesome addition to a
laptop based studio, as I take it ;)