Ubuntu Studio and the Tascam US-122 USB sound card

Well, I've been working on recording a record ("Sooperchumpy") and I determined that the 16 bit recordings that I was doing were not of sufficiently high quality. I ebay'd my Fostex MR8 and bought a Tascam US-122. This is where the fun began. I bought this old USB 1.1 recording interface because it seemed to be known to work with Linux. It came the other day and I was anxious to try it out. Initially, it seemed to work great. It would record ten seconds of sound without mishap. Eventually I tried to record something longer and discovered that somewhere just past thirty seconds the device died.

I spent quite a bit of time trying to get the damned thing to work, and eventually figured out that this is something that worked well with Ubuntu Feisty, but was difficult to get using with Gutsy due to something called "ohci". A quick google tells me that this is the "Open Host Controller Interface". That's cool. Anyhow, to make a long story short, downgrading to Feisty made quick work of this problem. There wasn't anything I really needed in Gutsy anyhow. I'm posting links to the articles that were helpful.

Kjel

Mailing list detailing the fix for Gutsy:
http://www.nabble.com/jackd-watchdog:-timeout---killing-jack-t4528241.html

Same problem here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=30891&page=6

Holy Crap! I haven't posted in a year!

That's o.k. though because really, nothing happened. New job, same old same old. One thing that is different is that the Sooperchumpy brand that almost no one has come to know and rely on has expanded to included additional services. I am please to announce that my almost totally unanticipated new album "Sooperchumpy" will be released sometime in 2008. Currently, I have two songs that are done and ready to be mastered, one that is being mixed, and about seventeen more to go. I had hoped to complete this process by December but the outlook for that is as follows: Fat chance. Anyhow, if any of my non-existent readers would like to check out the results, demo versions of songs in production are now available here (MyFreakingSpace) and here (Garageband.com).

This album is being recorded in my studio (doubles as a bedroom!) and mixed and edited using open source software on the Ubuntu Studio Linux Distribution. So far all of my editing has been done in Audacity with Hydrogen being used for drum tracks. Eventually I will move production into Ardour once I figure out how the hell it works.

Peace!

Kjel Anderson