[Ardour-Users] m-audio fast track ultra setup

[m.eik michalke]

hi there,

i bought myself a used m-audio fast track ultra 8R (19" rack version with 8
mic inputs) a few weeks ago:

https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/tech/m-audio-fast-track-ultra-8r-166705

it kind of works out of the box with ALSA, but it took me a while to get to a
configuration that really made sense to me, not only for music production but
also for daily stuff like video conferences, so pulseaudio had to be tamed as
well. i really enjoy working with the device now, so i thought i'd share my
config with you, in case you also find a cheap one on ebay or so (you can
sometimes get them for 50-100€):

https://gist.github.com/unDocUMeantIt/651b621d48108c9a301224ffb886ca20

(if someone knows a way to automatically add and remove custom sinks/sources
to puleseaudio without restarting the daemon when the device is being added/
removed, i'm all ears ;)).


viele grÌße :: m.eik

[m.eik michalke]

hi paul,

Post by m.eik michalke
(if someone knows a way to automatically add and remove custom sinks/sources
to puleseaudio without restarting the daemon when the device is being added/
removed, i'm all ears ;)).

You can use a udev rule to run a script with pactl commands in it.

yes, i actually tried that first, but i couldn't get it to work reliably.
pactl creates the desired sinks on my laptop, but not on my desktop machine,
using the same "module-remap-sink" calls that do what i want in my ~/.config/
pulse/default.pa now. i tried but failed to find out why.

i currently use a script invoked by udev to kill pulseaudio for the user
running it, so the default.pa creates the sinks and also removes them when the
device is shut down.


viele grüße :: m.eik