Can't record with my Focusrite 2i2?

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daddyorca
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Can't record with my Focusrite 2i2?

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Hello. First off, I'm new here so if I'm posting in the wrong place forgive me. I recently built a pc and decided to use Linux Mint as I didn't want to pirate windows or pay for windows. I have a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2nd gen and have been pretty anxious to start recording. Earlier today I downloaded reaper, which is the daw I use, and downloaded the drivers for the 2i2 on the Focusrite website. Both of these were done through the use of wine. The problem that I have is that after selecting The 2i2 as my device, reaper gives me a message that says

"There was an error opening the audio hardware:

Error initializing ASIO driver"

I tried going to ASIO Control Panel and I get the error on wine "The program ASIO Control Panel.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

I've tried just installing the drivers again..and I am aware that Focusrite doesn't support Linux, but I've seen other people use Scarlett models to record on their linux desktops. Anyway, I'm not exactly sure if I'm doing something wrong. They definitely are the correct drivers. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Re: Can't record with my Focusrite 2i2?

Post by Pablo »

In addition to the previous post by beloved falkTX,
"The Focusrite 2i2 is supported in Linux" means that you don't need any additional driver because it is already in the linux kernel.
That is not the problem, don't lose your time searching for drivers, that belongs to the windows world. The gnu/linux world is so different.
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Re: Can't record with my Focusrite 2i2?

Post by daddyorca »

Thank you both. I'll try and figure out jack. I just assumed that since focusrite's website says that it does not support linux that I could use those drivers. I do know people that use it on linux though so hopefully everything goes well
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Re: Can't record with my Focusrite 2i2?

Post by glowrak guy »

You'll also want to install wineasio, and if on 64 bit install, command

wine64 regsvr32 wineasio.dll

and also

wine regsvr32 wineasio.dll

The commands

aplay -l and

arecord -l

should present the names of your focusrite, as linux reads them.
These will appear in brackets, and should also be in the list of
choices offered by qjackctl. See the article in the link above,
and there are quite a few youtubes for qjackctl, and various linux audio apps.
I've used Reaper quite happily in linux for years. Last year, I added
Harrison Mixbus, as the two compliment each other nicely.
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Re: Can't record with my Focusrite 2i2?

Post by stanlea »

To sum up :

On Linux, your card works without any additional drivers (and moreover, they don't exist). Trying to install windows drivers on Linux cannot work.
The (not so) tricky part is to connect your card to jack finding the good settings (mostly latency).

Then, if you really want to use Reaper, there are actually 2 versions :
- a native linux versions, working but with some troubles with vst plugins
- the windows version working if you install wine and wineasio (and again NO windows ASIO plugins)

If this does not work for you, try one of the native linux sequencers :
Free software : qtractor, muse, ardour
Paying software : bitwig, traktion, mixbus
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