Linux Support Steinberg UR22

Works like a charm! I got my UR22 running in a few minutes in Ubuntu 14.10.

I recompiled and then I had to manualy modify quirks-table.h.


Thank you !

However, that’s a shame that Steinberg doesn’t provide a linux driver for their product…

The patch should make it into one of the kernel updates soon …

Yay! Well done … keep us posted here! :smiley:

Since followed this - the UR22 works perfect with Ubuntu 1404
thx a lot
ep

Well, doesn’t work anymore. I don’t know what happened. Suddenly, Ubuntu ask me for a password where it didn’t ask for it before (like restart, mounting partitions). And my UR-22 doesn’t work anymore…

I tried to re-do what I did to make it work, but it doesn’t. I can’t see the UR-22 in Ubuntu settings. Only Dummy Output.

Got it working again. After doing all the steps listed by KgwgK again, I purged ALSA drivers and reinstalled them. So now I can see the UR-22 in the Gnome audio settings.

I followed the steps from here: Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide


sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop (don’t know if this one was necessary)

Hi there,

I bought UR22 recently hoping it will work with ubuntu. I also tried all the steps mentioned above in this thread but still can not see it in the gnome GUI. Does anybody has any new idea?

Robert

That’s strange - make sure you’re running the script as root, otherwise the rsync step may have some problems.
I pasted the script here - http://pastebin.com/mVxFZVhY
If you’ve already got a snd-usb-audio driver being loaded, the script won’t be able to uninstall it, so after running it, you will have to reboot, and it should get picked up on the next boot.
Can you paste the script output here to help debug? By the way, the patch is in the upstream kernel, but Ubuntu hasn’t picked it up yet :confused:

So after some effort I managed to push my UR22 to work. It is not the smartest solution but it works at the time. I noticed that I boot to 3.13.0-40 kernel version and the patch refers to 3.13.0-32…So i had to find the way to boot to older kernel version. Now it works fine. I am still interested how to make it work with 3.13.0-40 though…

regards, Robert

The script here http://pastebin.com/mVxFZVhY should do the trick if you run it as root. I generalized it so it always pulls the latest kernel. The source tree it downloads may be labeled differently than the ubuntu build number, but we’re not rebuilding the entire kernel for this, only the snd-usb-audio driver, and it’ll point to the official ubuntu headers so the kernel version ends up matching up after all is said and done.

I have a Steinberg UR44 and tried the same procedure in Ubuntu 14.10. When that didn’t help, I edited the quirks-table.h in analogy to KgwgK’s patch file and thereby duplicated the UR22 entry, replacing the idProduct for 0x150e (which I took from lsusb). Then I repeated the steps of KgwgK’s bash script (make, disabling snd-usb-audio, rsync, enabling snd-usb-audio). Unfortunately, even after reboot the device is still not listed as a sound input device in Settings > Sound. Any idea what went wrong?

Looks like the patch is officially in the Ubuntu 14.10 tree now:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-utopic.git;a=blob;f=sound/usb/quirks-table.h;h=c657752a420c024aba8c61fa8ced9b8971434fcf;hb=HEAD
I just ran the Ubuntu update, and the UR22 worked out of the box on reboot.
:mrgreen:

I have a Steinberg UR44 and tried the same procedure in Ubuntu 14.10. When that didn’t help, I edited the quirks-table.h in analogy to KgwgK’s patch file and thereby duplicated the UR22 entry, replacing the idProduct for 0x150e (which I took from lsusb). Then I repeated the steps of KgwgK’s bash script (make, disabling snd-usb-audio, rsync, enabling snd-usb-audio). Unfortunately, even after reboot the device is still not listed as a sound input device in Settings > Sound. Any idea what went wrong?

I’m not sure, after looking at these threads, but it looks like Cyrus was able to get it to work.
Are you sure you didn’t re-apply the patch file with that script and overwriting your UR44 changes?
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2014-March/074120.html
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/130021

Yes, I’m sure.

However, apparently it did indeed work but the device is only recognized if it’s connected at system start. Reconnecting it later (including off/on) is of no use. Another caveat is that in Settings > Audio it’s only listed as an output device while, luckily, Audacity lists it as both input and output. A fast test showed that with a six-track recording the microphone input in channel 4 is detected correctly.

Hi,

I am just trying to get my UR22 working on Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel 3.13.0-44. The UR22 was recognized out of the box as Input/Output device. However, when using it with Jack and Ardour 3, both Mic/Line inputs of the UR22 are recorded on one channel. Couldn’t figure out yet how to do stereo recordings…anyone managed to use both channels for recording in Ubuntu? Hope it’s only a configuration issue…

Best
Chris

EDIT: Problem solved: The UR22 needs to be connected before systemstart (as quoted before) AND it must be conntected to an USB 2.0 port.

I hope this helps somebody

I tried the UR22 on Ubuntu Desktop v15.10 and it works.

All I did was power down the machine, plug in the UR22 USB cable into the computer and turn it on.

I did not have to install any device drivers or software.

The UR22 was recognized automatically by Ubuntu 15.10

Yeah, I got the fix into the kernel, so all is well now. :ugeek: A few other distros picked it up as well, although I haven’t tested all of them.

Glad it works for you !

Hmmmm… wonder if this works for a UR44?

Would love to know this too if the UR 44 works in Linux. Did somebody try it out yet?

This is great news KgwgK, thanks heaps for this! :sunglasses: