Silly me, I tried it in a USB 2 port and now I'm getting much better results. I guess there are problems with this device on a USB 3 port in Linux - or maybe in general? There are still several problems though. Now I can get it to record and play with arecord and aplay, and I can run Jack and Ardour or Audacity with jack selected and do multitrack recording no problem! HOWEVER, the playback device still doesn't show up in my Gnome/Pulse manager. Also when I open Audacity (no jack) the device shows up on the list of ALSA devices but when I select the device for input or output the device emits several audible clicks, and when I try to record or play the program either crashes or goes very very slow and can only play or capture a fraction of a second worth of data.
Regarding your suggestions, I see very little reported in dmesg. I'm unaware of separate logs for PulseAudio. Anyone else have any ideas? It would be convenient, but not critical to get it working like any other sound device.
Anybody have any ideas for better debugging of the issue? I'd say the current state is livable but maybe not something I'd say 'works for anyone.'
------ dmesg -------
[ 137.058345] usb 3-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [ 137.222869] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=040f, idProduct=0010 [ 137.222873] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 137.222875] usb 3-1: Product: Echo 2 Audio [ 137.222877] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: ECHO Digital Audio [ 137.222878] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 0000 [ 139.452978] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio [ 140.110495] retire_capture_urb: 3 callbacks suppressed
------ lsusb -v ------
tristan@ilya:/var/log$ lsusb -v
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 040f:0010 Echo Speech Corp. Couldn't open device, some information will be missing Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 239 Miscellaneous Device bDeviceSubClass 2 ? bDeviceProtocol 1 Interface Association bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x040f Echo Speech Corp. idProduct 0x0010 bcdDevice 0.38 iManufacturer 1 iProduct 2 iSerial 3 bNumConfigurations 2 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 311 bNumInterfaces 4 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x80 (Bus Powered) MaxPower 500mA Interface Association: bLength 8 bDescriptorType 11 bFirstInterface 0 bInterfaceCount 3 bFunctionClass 1 Audio bFunctionSubClass 0 bFunctionProtocol 32 iFunction 0 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 1 Audio bInterfaceSubClass 1 Control Device bInterfaceProtocol 32 iInterface 2 AudioControl Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 1 (HEADER) bcdADC 2.00 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(read/write) bmaControls( 1) 0x0000000f Mute Control (read/write) Volume Control (read/write) bmaControls( 2) 0x0000000f Mute Control (read/write) Volume Control (read/write) bmaControls( 3) 0x0000000f Mute Control (read/write) Volume Control (read/write) bmaControls( 4) 0x0000000f Mute Control (read/write) Volume Control (read/write) iFeature 0 AudioControl Interface Descriptor: bLength 12 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 3 (OUTPUT_TERMINAL) bTerminalID 20 wTerminalType 0x0301 Speaker bAssocTerminal 0 bSourceID 10 bCSourceID 40 bmControls 0x0000 iTerminal 0 AudioControl Interface Descriptor: bLength 17 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 2 (INPUT_TERMINAL) bTerminalID 1 wTerminalType 0x0201 Microphone bAssocTerminal 0 bCSourceID 40 bNrChannels 2 bmChannelConfig 0x00000000 bmControls 0x0000 iChannelNames 33 iTerminal 0 AudioControl Interface Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 36 bDescriptorSubtype 6 (FEATURE_UNIT) bUnitID 11 bSourceID 1 bmaControls( 0) 0x0000000f Mute 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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Daniel Mack daniel@zonque.org wrote:
Hi,
On 10/11/2014 07:32 PM, Tristan Chambers wrote:
I picked up an Echo Audio Echo 2 USB Interface. The product specs list iPad support through camera connection kit, so I assume it is class compliant. http://echoaudio.com/blogs/news/6454472-echo-digital-audio-introduces-the-ec...
However, on most systems when I plug the device in, it shows up in my sound settings panel under the Input tab, but not under the Output tab.
Recording works. I can successfully record with arecord -vv -fdat -D "plughw:CARD=Audio,DEV=0" echo.wav. I also can increase the sample rate by changing the flags. I verified that the sample rate actually increases by recording a 50khz test tone into the input and examining the wave form in an editor. It's there! So this is very promising. (anyone know of a test to verify bit depth? I want to make sure it's actually recording at 24bits.)
Playback however, is nothing but trouble. Like I said, the output device doesn't show up in the Output tab in my sound settings (gnome/pulse). However, when I list devices and available PCMs with aplay -l and aplay -L the device shows up on the lists. See specimens #1, #2, and #3. When I try to play though I get about a 1/4 second of audio and then nothing, and subsequent attempts to play sound output nothing. The device then must be unplugged and plugged back in. I'm playing with the command aplay -vv foo.wav --device="plughw:CARD=Audio,DEV=0". See output screen on specimen #4.
Any messages in dmesg when you try this? And does PulseAudio generate any logs that look suspicious? The output of 'lsusb -v' might also be helpful.
Daniel