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Tascam US-428 crash
Hi, i'm not sure that's the right place to post the issue. (sorry in advance)
I have a Tascam US-428 Hardware and tried to make it works on Ubuntu 22.04. I followed setup instruction for US-224 and adapted it for the US 428 : https://alsa.opensrc.org/Tascam_US-224
First i had to install firmware manually since hotplug package seems to be no longer available :
-
lsusb
shows my hardware correctly :Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1604:8000 Tascam US-428 Audio/Midi Controller (without fw)
- I downloaded firmwares from https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-firmware
- Loaded it to the Tascam :
sudo fxload -s alsa-firmware/usx2yloader/tascam_loader.ihx -I alsa-firmware/usx2yloader/us428fw.ihx -D /dev/bus/usb/001/004
- I manually copied
alsa-firmware/usx2yloader/
files (us428.conf, us428.prepad, and us428.rbt) to/usr/lib/firmware/usx2yloader/
folder to makeusx2yloader
working. - Running
lsusb
confirmed it works. It shows now :Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1604:8001 Tascam US-428 Audio/Midi Controller
- Also, the USB led on my Tascam turned up green.
Then I tried to launch us428control to test midi :
-
us428control -v 2
properly logs midi event when i move some controls on the Tascam.
So far so good.
Then i tried to test audio playback. ALSA properly list my device :
aplay -l
...
card 1: USX2Y [TASCAM US-X2Y], device 0: US-X2Y Audio [US-X2Y Audio #0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
aplay -L
...
hw:CARD=USX2Y,DEV=0
TASCAM US-X2Y, US-X2Y Audio #0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=USX2Y,DEV=0
TASCAM US-X2Y, US-X2Y Audio #0
Hardware device with all software conversions
sysdefault:CARD=USX2Y
TASCAM US-X2Y, US-X2Y Audio #0
Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=USX2Y,DEV=0
TASCAM US-X2Y, US-X2Y Audio #0
Direct sample mixing device
usbstream:CARD=USX2Y
TASCAM US-X2Y
USB Stream Output
Then i tried to playback a wav file : aplay -D dmix:CARD=USX2Y,DEV=0 test.wav
but when the song finish, or when i interrupt it, my whole system freeze (desktop GUI and mouse) and i had to shutdown my laptop manually.
Note that i tried with other device name but it freeze as well, i also launched Audacity which freeze at startup as well.
I'm a bit lost and i can't find useful information on the internet about it. Any help appreciated. Thanks for reading.