[PD] FAO edirol users. problems with Pd and edirol usb

Marc Lavallée odradek at videotron.ca
Wed Nov 13 15:40:42 CET 2002


Try the "audio" module: it is an OSS module for usb devices like the
Edirol UA-1A. On my system (mdk 8.2) the module loaded automatically
when I first plugged it. It works very well on both my portable and
desktop. 
--
Marc

Le mer 13/11/2002 à 04:52, Nick Fells a écrit :
> hi all,
> 
> Well, thanks for all the input on this one. I've given up on edirol too,
> couldn't get it to work without clicking on my dell inspiron under WinXp
> (asio or otherwise) nor Alsa. Nice sound quality for 60GBP, if you can
> ignore the clicks. Interesting phenomenon to note: under XP with asio
> driver, running the test tone patch, I'd get occasional small clicks
> under the windows (native) and ALSA drivers. Same running my granular
> sampling patches. Under win with asio driver, the test tone patch makes
> less frequent but much louder clicks, and the granular patches sound
> like you're thrusting the Dell through an industrial grinding machine
> (massive clicks with virtually every grain, it seems). Bizarre.
> 
> Guess you just have to spend the money on the bigger solutions (but,
> clearly, even then you can't guarantee the manufacturers do what they
> claim to do - 'roland corp', 'dell', your both bloody rubbish, that's
> what I say, grrr).
> 
> Another thing to note - in the small print on the edirol website they
> mention there might be problems with their products on machines that do
> 'interrupt sharing', something I wasn't even aware of (and certainly not
> something they go out of their way to warn you about in their sales
> patter...). Indeed, when I look at the resources used by my dell's
> hardware, there are about 10 devices allocated IRQ11, including (wait
> for it): ATI Radeon card, Ethernet card, PCI-USB adapter, 'on-board'
> intel sound chip etc etc etc. (and the PCMCIA adapter, which worries me,
> as even if I had say the RME Cardbus card, would this not suffer the
> same fate??)
> 
> So I suppose the usb-audio is probably never going to work on that
> laptop without being preempted by something else (radeon!).
> 
> Don't understand the ins and outs of this enough, but under XP you can't
> reassign resources as there's no Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) - you
> can set one up, but you have to reinstall the OS (AARGH, thank you Mr
> Gates, what a nice man - yet again you have innovated for the benefit of
> the customer). Don't know about Linux - if anyone can advise on that,
> I'd appreciate it. At the moment it just seems to use the same resources
> as windows (lots of 'sharing interrupt with device ...' messages at boot
> up).
> 
> For what it's worth (sorry about the rant).
> 
> nick
> 
> PS the performance went well, and the sound was surprisingly <ok> using
> the onboard i/o - but then it might have had something to do with the
> Neumann mic
> 
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