Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] M-Audio Fast Track Ultra USB From: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@su...> - 2008-04-11 09:15 Hi,
Damien Henry - Voxler <damien.henry@vo...> writes:
> Lee Revell a écrit : >> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:52 PM, knoxit.etc@gm... >> <knoxit.etc@gm...> wrote: >>> >>> I was wondering if any user had experiences with the M-Audio Fast Track >>> Ultra USB unit and ALSA. >>> >>> I'm not sure if its supported, it doesn't show up on the soundcard >>> matrix. If not, is there any development taking place right now? >> >> Does it work in Windows without installing a vendor driver? > > I've tested it : > most of the feature works out of the box : > recording 2 channels > playing 2 channels > There is no soft mixer, or at least, I didn't find it. > > I didn't suceed to make the spdif input work.
Hmm, "most of the feature"? The M-Audio Fast Track Ultra is supposed to record and playback 8 channels for each direction - 6 of them analog. It also has an internal DSP for mixing/routing. If this does not work, I would not consider that most of the features are working.
As there are drivers available for Mac/Windows and the Quick install manual explicitly mentions these drivers to be installed first, I doubt that this device is class compliant.
Matthias
I got one of these. Definitely doesn't play ALSA.
Nice piece of kit though. Needs a driver with MacOS & Windows. Just looks like a MIDI i/f to Fedora 8. What I could see is at http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2008-March/014517.html
If anyone feels like writing a driver (and maybe a mixer-gui that controls the onboard effects unit), or buying a nearly new one :) please let me know.
Good luck, Ian