Okay I got myself in quite the pickle…
First, I apologize if this isn’t specifically Ardour but the Linux Musicians forum is dead.
I have been using a first generation Scarlett 18i20 for around 5 years now. Been working great. 3 years ago, I incorporated an Octopre Mk II via the ADAT input of the Scarlett to give myself 8 more input channels. Also, was working great.
It was brought to my attention a 2nd Scarlett can be used in place of the Octopre which would also give me 8 more analog outputs via the first Scarlett’s (the one acting as soundcard) ADAT output. So I went to get a second Scarlett but the only first gen ones for sale costed more than a new 2nd gen. I’ve been hearing for years that the 2nd Gen is working with ALSA, so I went for it.
ALSA shows a single parameter for the 2nd gen, which is the clock source. I installed kernel 5.11, same thing. So I hooked it up to a Windows box, and set the routing so it would send its inputs out the ADAT and send the ADAT input channels to its line outputs. Now when I hook it up the original Scarlett (the one that is acting as the soundcard) it doesn’t send audio to the DAW or take signals.
Anyone using a second generation Scarlett and have any tricks for getting ALSA to configure it? I found this page:
But I don’t know what to do with it. Do I find those files on my system and make exactly those edits? Do I even need to do that at this point? I thought those changes were already incorporated in the 5.x kernel.
Sorry for all this. Just if anyone with a second gen can think of something obvious I am missing.
Hi, I appreciate the reply. I guess my most immediate question is does ALSA show you all the routing options and whatnot for the 2nd gen 18i20? Because mine literally only shows the clock source option and nothing else. This is both with alsamixer in the terminal as well as the Qasmixer UI.
did you verify that the .conf file was saved? did you copy the syntax exactly? did you restart the computer and the scarlett? finally, what version of the kernel are you on?
If you are familiar with compiling kernels you can check out this backport driver from sadko. There are more resent work on the driver here. backport 18i20 from geoffrey
Hope it will work out for you.
Yeah I posted on a thread regarding this exact problem, and tried to ask for some specifics/clarifications and got not replies lol. but i’m glad there are plenty of others appreciating the forums. i think i like it better here
i would look into whatever cjoke posted. the original instructions are for 2nd gen. i didn’t even realize there was any effort in getting the 3rd gen working on linux.