Hi everyone!
I just purchased Fast Track Ultra, and it works great! Only problem was the routing problem described in this thread, and here's how I solved it (was actually really easy!)
What's the problem?
Fast Track Ultra has internal routing system (and somewhat complex/flexible actually!). There are eight software return channels (as the user guide calls them), and each of those channels can be routed to every physical output. In my AV Linux 5.0.3 installation, by default all of them are routed to each other, and that's why I heard exactly the same on every output. On my Ubuntu 11.10 the two first channels were routed right, but others were wrong.
What I wanted (and what I think you want too) was that software return 1 would route to physical output 1 and so on. That way you can just forget all the internal routing stuff and use Jack - which is even more flexible system as we know! (Ubuntu's Pulseaudio also works great when card's internal routing is made that way.)
This is what I did:
I used Gnome Alsamixer in AV Linux and alsamixer in Ubuntu. Both tools work similar, so you can use what suits best to you. (Alsamixer is command line software, so open your terminal, type
alsamixer and press enter.
When you have alsamixer opened, you should first choose right soundcard. This is done by pressing F6, in command line version, Gnome Alsamixer has separate tabs for different soundcards. After that you should see about 128 faders. Those control the internal routing.
Now, if you are using Gnome Alsamixer, first thing you should do is rename all the 128 faders. (At least I had to, because all faders had same names in GUI) This is quite boring job to do, but once you do it, Gnome Alsamixer remembers it's settings. If you decide to use alsamixer, you don't have to do this.
First 64 faders describe inputs, and last 64 describe outputs. Faders are in the groups of eight. (In commandline version of alsamixer you have to press F5 to see all 128 faders. By default it shows only input faders.) Now you just have to adjust most of the faders to zero (in cli alsamixer this is done by pressing
end).
PageDown and
PageUp buttons can be used to adjust fader's volume. I adjusted
DIn1 - Out1 to 100 and all other
DIn1 outputs to zero,
DIn2 - Out2 to 100 and all other
DIn2 outputs to zero, and so on. The end result was just 8 outputs being open: every software return channel was routed to one physical output. Nice!
When you are ready, you should save your mixer settings so that your computer remembers them after boot. I did it from the command line by running
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alsactl -f /var/lib/alsa/asound.state store
as root.
If you are using Ubuntu, running things as root is done via
sudo. So the right command for you is
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sudo alsactl -f /var/lib/alsa/asound.state store
If you don't want to save your settings as root, you can also save them to your home folder like this:
And to restore your saved settings:
This way I got my Fast Track Ultra to work properly. Now I can use cueing function in Mixxx and start serious DJ:ing!
Oh, almost forgot: I really haven't tested inputs yet, so I don't know if the same method works for them also. I routed them same way:
AIn1 - Out1 to 100 and other
AIn1 outputs to zero, and so on. I'll test it someday and update how it works.