[Alsa-user] Fw: Behringer UCA222

[Chris W. <blo...@ya...>]

Hi there,


Bill, the UCA202 and UCA222 are identical apart from the software bundle (and 
the 222 has a bright red exterior instead of grey). The 202 works fine here with 
openSUSE 11.4 x64, apart from the usual pitfalls with Linux audio. It works 
without drivers in Windows 7 and Vista, which tells me they must be 
highly standards compliant devices.

I have recorded some snippets of acoustic guitar and bass guitar with it in 
ardour, and am moderately happy with the recording quality - there are cleaner 
sounding interfaces, but frankly getting some of those working satisfactorily in 
Linux is a PITA - the UCA 202 (and hence 222) is as close to plug and play for a 
prosumer audio solution in Linux as I have come across thus far...

Kind regards,

Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia.


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From: Bill Unruh <un...@ph...>
To: Sergei Steshenko <ste...@li...>
Cc: als...@li...
Sent: Tue, 3 May, 2011 9:43:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Behringer UCA222

On Mon, 2 May 2011, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

> On Mon, 2 May 2011 21:58:46 +0200
> "ow...@gm..." <ow...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Sergei but i don't really hunderstund if it is compatible.
>>
>> http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCA222.aspx
>>
>>
>> 2011/5/2 Sergei Steshenko <ste...@li...>
>>
>>> On Mon, 2 May 2011 21:03:57 +0200
>>> "ow...@gm..." <ow...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, is Behringer UCA222 alsa fully compatible? I'm thinking to buy two of
>>>> them for recording purposes, I'm using debian squeeze.
>>>>
>>>> Here Behringer UCA222 is not present on
>>>> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main but some people
>>> say
>>>> it is compatible.
>>>>
>>>> Can you help?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> The very first thing to check is whether nod driver is needed under
>>> Windows.
>>>
>>> I.e. sometimes manufacturers advertise that no driver is needed and that
>>> the
>>> device is a standards compliant USB device.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>  Sergei.
>>>
>
> It looks like it has a specific (i.e. not generic USB) driver.

What that means is that there is a very good chance that it would also need a
specific driver under Linux. Since you cannot find such a generic driver, the
chances are that this will not work under Linux. None of these statements are
anything but guesses.