Re: M-Audio Fast Track Ultra

[Chip VanDan <chip.vandan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I want to thank those that replied.  Following Ketil's suggestion I managed to get the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra working.  I was using the 2.6.33 (realtime or lowlatency, not sure which right now) but I managed to install the 2.6.38 generic kernel from the kernel repository for Ubuntu and it "just worked"!  The PPA that he referred has the lowlatency kernel available for "natty" but not for "lucid" so I may have to do some digging to get a lowlatency or realtime kernel 2.6.38 for lucid.  

My compiling skills go as far as following step by step instructions, and if the dependencies aren't available I find them in synaptic.  I should take the time to learn how to patch certain files, and maybe how to compile my own kernels, but everytime I compile something it never goes to the right place on my system.  

So as it stands right now, JACK starts up using the correct sound card and I have 8 channels available for input and output.  The MIDI does not show up in JACK, but I'm not concerned about that because I already use a USB MIDISport Uno for MIDI input.  When JACK is not running the system still uses my laptop's built in soundcard, which I'll have to figure out how to switch over to use the Fast Track Ultra full-time, but I think I've seen instructions for how to do that on some site somewhere.  My ideal situation would be to run all audio through JACK all the time, but the only page I've ever seen that explains how to do that was seriously outdated.

So, again, thank you for your input, it was a pleasure as always.  You have saved this bit of equipment from sitting in the return bin at the store.

Chip

On 19 February 2011 05:22, Ketil Thorgersen <ketil.thorgersen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Den 19. feb. 2011 04:58, skrev Chip VanDan:

In a complete and utter fervor today with some newfound extra cash I impulsively purchased an M-Audio Fast Track Ultra, with the hopes and prayers that it would "just work" on my Ubuntu Studio 10.04 system.  My confidence was quickly shattered when I got it home, plugged it in, and did some research on it.  There is a multitude of links out there with people that have had problems with it in Linux, and a few have gotten it to work, but I have no idea how.

For reference sake, I'm having the exact same problem as referenced on this forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=884329
but I don't really understand the directions on how they fixed the issue.

HI

I have one of the fast track ultra pros, and made it work on KxStudio by updating to the 2.6.38 lowlatency kernel in Aboganis ppa https://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppa/?field.series_filter=natty

Good luck!
Ketil

-- 
Christopher "Chip" Van Dan
http://www.van-dan.com
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