05-21-2019, 02:07 AM | #1 |
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(solved) There was an error opening the audio hardware
Until yesterday I worked with Linux Mint Cinnamon (18 ?)
With a Focusrite Solo, Reaper worked directly out of the box. Since today, I switched to another OS (Linux Mint XFCE 19), and installed Reaper again. However, Reaper doesn't seem to recognize the hardware (see screenshot). In the Volume Control, the Scralett Solo is already set by default and it's working as I can play music via VLC Player or Youtube or whatever. Already switched to other USB port, rebooted, reïnstalled Reaper,... Any other things I could try? (I want to work directly via ALSA, not Jack) Thanks in advance! Last edited by bulevardi; 05-22-2019 at 11:33 AM. Reason: solved |
05-21-2019, 12:44 PM | #2 |
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Reïnstalled Cinnamon, this went quite quick, as my working files are on a separate disk.
Opened Reaper, error message, went to Reaper Preference menu, ALSA input/output field was blank too, clicked on it, did nothing... but when fiddling in the blank field, I clicked on the dropdown arrow and the HW: usb audio Scarlett appeared !! Did a recording, worked perfect. I'm now wondering that I clicked on the arrow or not when I was testing in Xfce... Grrrr The Volume Control of Cinnamon is slightly different as UI in comparison with the Pavucontrol in Xfce, but I'm really wondering if that really changed anything... Should I reïnstall Xfce again to test it out... tempting... :s |
05-21-2019, 02:44 PM | #3 |
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I've used xfce since initially installing Xubuntu 18.04 and ALSA works fine on my DAW with one of my two M-Audio 2496 cards.
That said, I use JACK so I can make both cards available to REAPER using QjackCtl's patch bay. Performance wise, they are pretty equal. |
05-22-2019, 11:32 AM | #4 |
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Reïnstalled Xfce from scratch. Pavucontrol as volume mixer.
For some reason it is now directly working out of the box... The input/output fields of the ALSA settings were already filled in with Scarlett in Reaper. And no latency at all when recording. :shock: Don't know what went wrong in the first place. It's all working, so far so good. |
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