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Linux and Umik 9 years 4 months ago #14775

laurentEvain
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Dear all,

The status of the compatibility of umik with linux is unclear to me. Some documents (pdf) said it is supported whereas the website precises Win and Mac, without Linux. Some users reported problems to record with umik under linux.

Now my question. Under linux, is umik usable only with Rew, or is it recognized by alsa and usable in every application under alsa ? ( Besides speaker measurement, I would like to record some piano).

Thank for the answer,
Laurent.

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Linux and Umik 9 years 4 months ago #14811

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Laurent,

We haven't fully tested the UMIK-1 under Linux but see no reason for the issue since the device is a standard USB audio class1.
From what we recall of a support case (the only one we heard of the issue), the misconfiguration was more on the software side than the driver side. Not sure what came out of this case to be honest. If there are Linux guys out there able to try, would be great if you were to pitch in to give some feedback?

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Linux and Umik 9 years 4 months ago #14817

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I can confirm that the UMIK-1 works great on linux, it uses standard drivers so it's just plug and play.

And of course it is ALSA that has support of it, in REW I usually just go through pulse also because it is easy but if you wanted to you could make REW use ALSA directly. Latency from having pulse in the middle isn't a problem though so it would only be more complicated to bypass =)

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Linux and Umik 9 years 4 months ago #14824

devteam Away Administrator Posts: 9231 Thank you received: 1514	That's what I call great community support! Knowledgeable community members pitching in to answer configuration we just haven't had a chance to test. Thanks @ Ollboll! DevTeam miniDSP, building a DSP community one board at a time. For any official support, please contact our technical support team directly @ support.minidsp.com/support/home
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Linux and Umik 8 years 11 months ago #17075

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Perhaps good to post some working examples. Here are a few to begin with.

You can record in Linux with SoX. Below is an example to record for 60 seconds after 5 seconds of waiting
$ sudo apt-get install sox
$ export AUDIODEV=hw:1,0
$ export AUDIODRIVER=alsa
$ rec -q -r 48000 -c 1 -b 16 filename.wav trim 5 60

Recording works directly out of the box in Audacity.

If anybody has some examples of using arecord and using the calibration file, please post them here as well.

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Linux and Umik 8 years 11 months ago #17077

pander Offline New Member Posts: 17 Thank you received: 2	I have setup a repository on GitHub to collect all documentation for using UMIK-1 on Linux. Please see github.com/PanderMusubi/umik-1
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Linux and Umik 8 years 11 months ago #17078

pander Offline New Member Posts: 17 Thank you received: 2	Did anyone get the UMIK-1 working with arecord? This arecord -l -L indicates to use it as arecord -vv -D sysdefault:CARD=U18dB -c 1 -r 48000 -d 60 filename.wav but the recording stalls. What do I need to alter?
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Linux and Umik 8 years 11 months ago #17089

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@ Pander,

Wow.. Very impressive how well you've been documenting all this! :-)

Great job!
We're sorry that we're not Linux guru's though so can't help much on the rest.. Hoping someone in the community with more knowledge will be able to help you..

Can we link that good info on the product page so end users can find it? With all credits to you of course. :-)

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Linux and Umik 8 years 11 months ago #17102

OllBoll Offline Premium Member Posts: 102 Thank you received: 8	pander wrote: Did anyone get the UMIK-1 working with arecord? This arecord -l -L indicates to use it as arecord -vv -D sysdefault:CARD=U18dB -c 1 -r 48000 -d 60 filename.wav but the recording stalls. What do I need to alter? recording from hardware with ALSA is pretty overkill, won't it be easier to use a middle layer like Jack or Pulseaudio?
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Linux and Umik 8 years 11 months ago #17103

pander Offline New Member Posts: 17 Thank you received: 2	Not all systems have that installed. For example a Raspbarry Pi works initially via ALSA. But if you have any examples, please share them here or, beter, via GitHub.
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Linux and Umik 8 years 11 months ago #17104

pander Offline New Member Posts: 17 Thank you received: 2	@devteam yes, I am fine with linking to it. if users want to contribute more examples and documentation I will add it or give them rights to add it themselves. PS I am also working on making sox.sourceforge.net being able to work with the calibration file. The following user(s) said Thank You: devteam
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Linux and Umik 8 years 11 months ago #17105

OllBoll Offline Premium Member Posts: 102 Thank you received: 8	I run Ubuntu so I don't have to do anything, it just works out of the box. You can install pulseaudio on the raspberry pi. And if you really want to minimize buffer size you could throw in a kernel with RT-priority on pulse. Much more fiddly though than just having more powerful hardware and installing a full distro where it works by default.
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Linux and Umik 8 years 8 months ago #18502

pander Offline New Member Posts: 17 Thank you received: 2	Meanwhile I have extra plots, interpolations, extrapolations, fits and more. Before I and going to share these publicly, I am looking for someone who would like to review my work. Let me know if you would like to do this and hereby improving support on Linux but also other platforms with the improved calibration files.
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Linux and Umik 8 years 4 months ago #20429

pander Offline New Member Posts: 17 Thank you received: 2	I will have improved software and interpolated and extrapolated calibration curves coming up in a week a three. Who would like to review it?
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Linux and Umik 8 years 4 months ago #20458

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Oh great news.. Keep us in the loop when it's ready. We're not linux guru but hope that we can get the word out there to get more UMIK-1 users to help.
If you get something going, we can help you to publish some documentation for the community!

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