Frontier Tranzport backend

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

Hi all,

how do I test the connection of a Frontier Tranzport device with the regarding back end?

Using aptosid with kernel 2.6.37, I plugged in my transport device, and nicely a /dev/tranzport0 appeared. However, it does not appear as midi device within qjackctr and others.

I tried http://sourceforge.net/search/?q=tranzport to test the interface with no success.

The other distribution I have on my PC is Debian stable - here no /dev/tranzport0 is created (afaik due to an older hotplug system), but http://sourceforge.net/search/?q=tranzport does work and correctly displays button inputs.

Are there other ways to test the Tranzport? Is there a new backend similiar to the http://sourceforge.net/search/?q=tranzport one?
Or is my kernel to new?

Best

Jan-Mark

#2

Hi,

If you want to test the Tranzport in Ardour or with Ardour you will need to compile it yourself and you will need ‘libusb-dev’ on your system along with the regular Ardour dependencies. Since you are using Debian a simple ‘apt-get build-dep ardour’ should get the dependencies sorted out and then additionally ‘libusb-dev’.

Info on building Ardour here: http://www.ardour.org/building

If memory serves you want to add ‘TRANZPORT=1’ to the scons configure line but I’m not 100% sure on that, perhaps someone else can chime in who actually custom builds for Tranzport devices.