Mackie XD-2 Spike USB Drivers for Linux

Mackie XD-2 Spike USB Drivers for Linux

[Sava Tatic]

Hello,

I have been trying to get the Mackie XD-2 Spike 
(http://www.mackie.com/products/spike/) to work on my Kubuntu Feisty machine, 
and so far I have only gotten it to play out (I had to use plughw instead of 
hw). I am using the generic USB drivers that came with the distro. I am 
having trouble recording anything on the card. Alsamixer (or Kmix) do not see 
the card. When I do alsamixer -c 1 (0 is my onboard card), it returns "no 
mixer elems found". 

I am aware that this card is not in the ALSA Matrix of supported cards, but I 
am wondering what would it take for it to become supported? 

All the best,

Sava

Re: Mackie XD-2 Spike USB Drivers for Linux

[John L. Utz III]

Hello Sava

On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:49:01 +0200
"Sava Tatic" <tictactatic@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying to get the Mackie XD-2 Spike 
> (http://www.mackie.com/products/spike/) to work on my Kubuntu Feisty
> machine, and so far I have only gotten it to play out (I had to use
> plughw instead of hw). I am using the generic USB drivers that came
> with the distro. I am having trouble recording anything on the card.
> Alsamixer (or Kmix) do not see the card. When I do alsamixer -c 1 (0
> is my onboard card), it returns "no mixer elems found". 
> 
> I am aware that this card is not in the ALSA Matrix of supported
> cards, but I am wondering what would it take for it to become
> supported? 

USB audio is a standard so it might be incredibly easy to do this
depending on what mackie did.

if the documentation indicates that it needs no drivers for OSX than
it's a class compliant device and all you should need to do is find
it's ID string using lsusp and then stick it into the appropriate array
in the driver:

[jutz@jutz-fc6 ~]$ /sbin/lsusb 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical

you should be able to find it this way.

if osx needs a driver or loads firmware for it, then it gets more
complex, but not too complex.

An example of a firmware loading device is the Emagic A26 and A26m. It
works in linux because it's class compliant after the linux driver loads
the firmware and then exits(i think it exits!).

> All the best,
> 
> Sava
> 
> 
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Re: Mackie XD-2 Spike USB Drivers for Linux

[Sava Tatic]

Hello John,

Thanks so much for your reply. Will fiddle with it as soon as I get back to 
the machine. Sounds very encouraging!

Sava

On Thursday 10 May 2007 19:55:18 you wrote:
> Hello Sava
>
> On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:49:01 +0200
>
> "Sava Tatic" <tictactatic@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been trying to get the Mackie XD-2 Spike
> > (http://www.mackie.com/products/spike/) to work on my Kubuntu Feisty
> > machine, and so far I have only gotten it to play out (I had to use
> > plughw instead of hw). I am using the generic USB drivers that came
> > with the distro. I am having trouble recording anything on the card.
> > Alsamixer (or Kmix) do not see the card. When I do alsamixer -c 1 (0
> > is my onboard card), it returns "no mixer elems found".
> >
> > I am aware that this card is not in the ALSA Matrix of supported
> > cards, but I am wondering what would it take for it to become
> > supported?
>
> USB audio is a standard so it might be incredibly easy to do this
> depending on what mackie did.
>
> if the documentation indicates that it needs no drivers for OSX than
> it's a class compliant device and all you should need to do is find
> it's ID string using lsusp and then stick it into the appropriate array
> in the driver:
>
> [jutz@jutz-fc6 ~]$ /sbin/lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 004 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
>
> you should be able to find it this way.
>
> if osx needs a driver or loads firmware for it, then it gets more
> complex, but not too complex.
>
> An example of a firmware loading device is the Emagic A26 and A26m. It
> works in linux because it's class compliant after the linux driver loads
> the firmware and then exits(i think it exits!).
>
> > All the best,
> >
> > Sava
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Alsa-devel mailing list
> > Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
> > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel

Re: Mackie XD-2 Spike USB Drivers for Linux

[Clemens Ladisch]

Sava Tatic wrote:
> I have been trying to get the Mackie XD-2 Spike 
> (http://www.mackie.com/products/spike/) to work on my Kubuntu Feisty machine, 
> and so far I have only gotten it to play out (I had to use plughw instead of 
> hw).

If playing works, then the driver has already found and recognized your
device.

> I am having trouble recording anything on the card.

What exactly is the trouble?

> Alsamixer (or Kmix) do not see the card. When I do alsamixer -c 1 (0 is
> my onboard card), it returns "no mixer elems found". 

Many USB devices do not have any software-accessible mixer controls.


Regards,
Clemens