Re: [Alsa-user] Best course of action with Audient iD14

[Clemens Ladisch via Alsa-user]

Charles Mulder wrote:
> I am trying to set up a dedicated audio workstation for composing and
> would like to keep it as minimal as possible. I was thinking of using
> ALSA and Jack without Pulseaudio.
>
> In your opinion, is that a mistake?

Probably not.  But the "Analogue Surround 4.0" classification is done by
PulseAudio, so it is not clear what problem you actually have.


Regards,
Clemens

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Re: [Alsa-user] Best course of action with Audient iD14

[Clemens Ladisch via Alsa-user]

Charles Mulder wrote:
> I would like to ask your help to establish what the best course of action
> would be.

Ask the PulseAudio developers how to configure it to detect the device 
correctly:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Community/


Regards,
Clemens


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[Alsa-user] Best course of action with Audient iD14

[Charles Mulder]

Hi.

I recently bought the Audient iD14, which is a class compliant USB2 device.

I would like to use it for writing and record music. Apparently it has
great converters.

After some online searching I came across a similar question on
StackOverflow

:

*Question*
"Ubuntu lists my audio interface as Analogue Surround 4.0 when it actually
only plays in stereo. As a result, the audio plays louder in the right
channel than the left channel."

*Answer*
*"Ubuntu (Linux in general) is correct in assigning 4 outputs as there are
4 outputs on the iD14. As you and I both know, only one pair of outputs are
physically accessible. Outputs 3&4 are primarily used to send alternate
mixes to musicians and are only accessible via the Audient mixer and/or
DAW. The iD14 is class compliant in as far as it is recognised and some
audio can be heard. Unfortunately that is as far as it goes (currently) as
there is no mixer available to ALSA or Pulse etc. If you open a terminal
and run alsamixer, press F6 and select Audient iD14, it will report a
broken pipe error. ALSA (or Pulseaudio) has no way of knowing how to
allocate the outputs, so assumes all 4 detected outs are available, but
also has no way of directing signal appropriately."*

I would like to ask your help to establish what the best course of action
would be.

Should I work on trying to fix this issue with a custom .asoundrc
 file, possibly using
the multi plugin

?

If that's not possible, what would writing a ALSA USB driver specifically
for the Audient iD14 entail?

iD14 manual and specifications


I would appreciate your thoughts and insights on this.

Kind regards,
Charles Mulder



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