Re: [FFADO-user] Presonus Firebox issues : 3 tips !!

[Israel <is...@to...>]

On 04/28/2014 10:28 AM, Jean-Paul Argudo wrote:
> Israel,
>
> Le lundi 28 avril 2014 à 09:19 -0500, Israel a écrit : 
>> Thanks!  I may just do this.
> You're welcome ! Glad this helps :)
>
>> It seems that qjackctl is my problem, not ffado, or jack.  So I need to
>> tweak qjackctl to behave the right way, and then I can do this stuff
>> with no problem!
> Uh? This seems so strange.
>
> Personnaly, I don't need qjackctl at all. I do all "connexions" inside
> ardour3. It is not only easier to do, but you can see connexions more
> easily, since qjackctl shows such a tons of lines, it's not allways easy
> to see.
>
> But, OTOH, I don't know what you plan to do with that Presonus :)

Sometimes I use Audacity (since it is fast and simple).  I also like to
use Guitarix with it, and occasionally Hydrogen or LMMS (depending on
what I am doing)
I suppose linking Guitarix in Ardour3 is pretty simple, I have just
always used qjackctl

again merci beaucoup!  (sorry I only have english keyboard)
>
>> However I cannot change out my firewire, as this is a laptop.
>> Though lspci shows me
>> 0d:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link
>> Layer Controller (rev 02)
>> So I do have a Texas Instruments Firewire port!
> Sounds good! :)
>
> If you have any questions, I'll try to answer you the best I can.
>
> Cheers,
>
>> On 04/28/2014 08:49 AM, Jean-Paul Argudo wrote:
>>> Hi Istrael,
>>>
>>> This list successfully helped me some months ago when I started with a
>>> Presonus too (old one).
>>>
>>> I got it running smoothly and perfectly since then, under debian wheezy.
>>>
>>> I can give you some tricks if you want ?
>>>
>>> First, I removed all packages regarding pulse, alsa and so on, to have
>>> the cleanest place possible.
>>>
>>> Then I installed jackd & such, I run jackd daily, the box is my audio
>>> station at night, but also my daily work computer, and everything runs
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> As I didn't want to be bothered anymore by starting the ffado & such at
>>> each boot, and as I wanted the box to be active (blue light! instead of
>>> red..) since the start of X here's what I did:
>>>
>>> In gnome classic (I assume thats the same kind of thing you have with
>>> KDE or such), go to 
>>>
>>>    Applications / system tools / preferences / starting apps preferences
>>>
>>> or you can simply run the application directly:
>>>
>>>    $ gnome-session-properties
>>>
>>> In this tool, create a new entry by clicking [ADD]
>>>
>>> Here's what I added there:
>>> * Name: Jackd Daemon
>>> * Command: /usr/bin/jackd -T -ndefault -P20 -dfirewire -r44100 -p128
>>> -n3 
>>> * comment: Starts automatically jackd
>>>
>>>
>>> This looks like nothing.. but.. saves time and have all the X
>>> environnement starting with sounds, quite cool for me.
>>>
>>> I never had to change those jackd parameters to work with the presonus,
>>> since I'm fine with 44 kHz sound....
>>>
>>> About the FFADO interface, I strongly recommend you use the latest
>>> version possible, since Takashi Sakamoto added everything you'll need to
>>> have it working well.
>>>
>>> If you got the right thing, you should have something looking like that:
>>> http://twitpic.com/dj7ybw
>>> http://twitpic.com/dj7y9f
>>>
>>>
>>> Second, I **strongly** recommend you use a right PCI card with Texas
>>> Instruments chips in it... I have VIA stuff on my PC and that was some
>>> kind of trouble having the box running fine (with ardour3, wich is what
>>> I use quite only for music (along with Hydrogen for drums) + some
>>> plugins).
>>>
>>> SO I bought this card:
>>> http://www.kalea-informatique.com/mag/fr/product-972668.htm
>>> ~25 euros chiped...
>>>
>>> lspci shows:
>>>
>>> (07:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23
>>> IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link))
>>>
>>> => DON'T FORGET to supply this kind of card with some power (from a
>>> unused floppy disk power cord)
>>>
>>> This way you can ged rid off completely of the external power unit of
>>> the firebox.
>>>
>>> This way I strongly reduced noises coming from the external power unit
>>> shipped with the presonus.
>>>
>>>
>>> Third advice: buy a brand new firewire 400 cable. You'll save hours of
>>> wondering how thing goes that bad. The one I had with this used (second
>>> hand) box was.. worn !!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I wish I have more time to give you more hints with that thing. But
>>> those 3 hints really made my life easier :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>>
>>>
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