Re: [linux-audio-user] Tascam US122 MIDI Troubles

From: Dan Easley <daneasley@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Apr 07 2006 - 17:01:15 EEST

Ah, fantastic. Thanks, guys - you've made my morning!

On 4/7/06, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Julian Squires wrote:
> > "Dan Easley" <daneasley@email-addr-hidden> writes:
> >> MIDI did work but now doesn't. It shows up in QJackCtl's window, but
> >> no MIDI signals are passed through; even more telling, the MIDI IN LED
> >> on the unit doesn't light. I've tested the controller with a BCR2000
> >> and it works fine; have also tried another controller with the Tascam.
> >> Again, the ports are apparently recognized by ALSA - in addition,
> >> audio works fine. I'm guessing it's a hardware failure of the Tascam,
> >> and I'll need to replace the unit, but I wanted to ask if you all can
> >> think of anything else linux-related I'm not thinking of.
> >
> > I use a Tascam US-122 on various Linux/PPC machines, and I've had this
> > happen before. I wish I could say exactly what it is, but I'm pretty
> > sure it's a software misconfiguration. I think each time, it must have
> > been caused by upgrades I did, but I never paid sufficiently close
> > attention, alas. Check whether you have the usb-midi kernel module
> > loaded (in addition to all the usx2y stuff), et cetera.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
>
> This seems to be a known issue on alsa-driver, that crept around version
> 1.0.9. It was fixed since 1.0.9b. Check it out.
>
> Cheers.
> --
> rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
> rncbc@email-addr-hidden
>

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