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 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?
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
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…
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?
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?
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.
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 was browsing the ALSA mailing list (see link below), and it looks like the UR44 has a “CC” (Class Compliant) button in the back that you can press, and it shows up as a multi-port IO device, and doesn’t need the UR22 quirk patch…
Can anyone give this a try before I go out and buy a UR44 to test with ?
Ok, I went out to Guitar Center and bought a UR44… $$$
Audio output works out of the box on Lubuntu with the “CC” button pressed in the back of the unit.
Haven’t tested any mixing, recording, etc, yet, but will update the thread later.
Enjoy !
Thanks for the update. I have not had a chance to get back into the studio for a while now. Sustained an injury to my right hand which has impeded getting other things done… Interesting news about the CC button on the 44, that is normally intended for iPad use, looking forward to having a go. Also your results will be good to know.
So, did anybody tried the UR22 with the newest release of Debian or Mint? I am planning to replace Ubuntu soon with Debian or Mint. I would doubt for Debian, since it is supposed to be very stable but packages don’t get updated so quickly.
It is nice to know that the UR22 is now recognised out of the box on some distros!