M-audio Fast Track

[studio32]

Anyone with experience with the maudio Fast Track?
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrack.html

No pro or Ultra...

[Capoeira]

here in Brazil it is verry, verry popular as "the first gear". Seems to be a good gear for the price. make sure to get Fast Track 2, as the first version didn't provide phantom-power

[autostatic]

My brother-in-law has one. It's plug and play. Haven't tested it extensively though but it appears to be a usable device.

[Louigi Verona]

Very, very nice piece of equipment. This is my main soundcard now and it is absolutely fabulous, works out of the box and also very mini and cute - you can take it with you at any time.

[RokStar]

I just bought M-Audio Fast Track USB (with knobs on top) saturday.
I have some issue:

- Alsamixer is not working with this device, my problem or alsa problem? How do you solve this?
- When I record my guitar with ardour or audacity I select from Jack the stereo channel and I get a stereo track with only one side recorded and the other one empty.
- Without Jack recording a second track with Audacity cause heavy noises.

The hardware configuration is:
Ibanez S270 -> Wah Pedal -> V-AMP2 (mode S1 - so L-R output activated with effects) -> M-Audio Fast Track USB -> Pc with Debian Sid and Alsa (no pulseaudio installed, onboard soundcard disabled from bios)

I use ardour and/or audacity.

[hellalive]

I use it with Ubuntu from 9.10 to 11.04 works perfectly..

[RokStar]

Can you please paste the content of /etc/modules.conf and lsmod | grep snd ?
Also, are you sure that alsamixer show the control for m-audio fast track? It could show the controls for the onboard audio card...
Thank you in advance.

[hellalive]

Sorry for the delay, i've been some buisy. So, /etc/modules.conf is blank and lsmod | grep snd shows this

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snd_usb_audio          94822  3 
snd_pcm_oss            41576  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17403  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                87267  4 snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc          8820  1 snd_pcm
snd_hwdep               7056  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_usb_lib            20415  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_seq_dummy           1782  2 
snd_seq_oss            31659  0 
snd_seq_midi            6092  0 
snd_rawmidi            23565  2 snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      7367  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                58020  11 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              23980  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          6850  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    72910  16 snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_usb_lib,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               8625  1 snd

In alsamixer you can change device by pressing F6 so it actually does show the controls for the fastrack, plus i have disabled my onboard card.

[Capoeira]

- Alsamixer is not working with this device, my problem or alsa problem? How do you solve this?

if it has no internal mixer build in alsamixer can't show nothing, obviously. You don´t need alsamixer, you have your "mixer" at the device.

- When I record my guitar with ardour or audacity I select from Jack the stereo channel and I get a stereo track with only one side recorded and the other one empty.

your guitar is mono ....your device has two outputs? if so, one is for mic and other for instrument.

- Without Jack recording a second track with Audacity cause heavy noises.

if it only happens without jack it's a latancy issue. use jack

[RokStar]

Well, thank you all guys. I tried an Ubuntu live and I noticed that with pulseaudio there is a simple mixer (only master level for every channel, input1, input2, output) and it enable a mixer for the application in use, so I can change the volume for audacious for example. I installed pulseaudio on my debian (I removed it because I was unable to use a microphone with skype with pulseaudio... now I no longer use skype so...) and it works like ubuntu.
I didn't try to record (during the week I just study guitar, I have not so much time because I work) but I'll try tomorrow... I'll let you know about any progress.