Alesis Multimix Firewire

jkzfixme · 02-16-2009, 06:09 PM

Any musicians out there have any luck getting the MultiMix 8 firewire mixing board working ? under ffado.org all I see is this cryptic msg ...

Quote:

Wavefront DICE-II devices
* Used in Alesis MultiMix 8, 12, and 16 FireWire mixers.
* Jody McIntyre has hardware and documentation.

I have googled it and not found a workable solution. I would feel much more comfortable rocking out with penguin power.

Regards,
JKZfixme

GlennsPref · 02-18-2009, 03:05 AM

Hi, I don't know about that mixer, but have you checked the alsa forums and wiki.

It helped me immensely when setting up my edirol ua-25ex.

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Main_Page

Cheers, Glenn

ps. check my blog for a realtime howto. ;-)

jkzfixme · 11-14-2009, 02:02 PM

any updates ? anyone have it working ?

- JKZfixme

GlennsPref · 11-14-2009, 06:01 PM

Hi, I found a thread at the ubuntu forums that mentions a walkthrough.

ref. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-205290.html

Code:

themobiletechie
August 24th, 2007, 07:44 AM
Good news, I think I've got it to work, Now as this is my first ever post to a forum i hope this goes OK, You never know it could be a good start. Here's what i did, very easy.

Ok I'm using Ubuntu Studio, not sure it makes a difference, haven't tried other versions as yet but this works in "studio"

1 disable your on-board sound card in the bios, this then should only leave you with your usb-sound device (the mixer)

2 under - system - preferences - sound change all sound capture and playback devices to USB Audio, WARNING check volume levels before running test buttons as it's a high pitch tone likely to do some ear damage...... (yes experience being passed on)

My system hung a little after doing this so i restarted and recorded and played back through Audacity no problem haven't tested any other software yet,

HOPE THIS HELPS

I have had a similar problem, and fix for my usb-audio device.

If you want you can give the on-board-sound a lesser index number to change the priority of the devices.
/etc/modprobe.conf and associated files in /etc/modprobe.d/ (with Mandriva-Linux)

Code:

....
#snd_usb_audio
remove snd_usb_audio /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd_usb_audio
install snd_usb_audio /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd_usb_audio
options snd_usb_audio index=0 id=UA-25EX
#snd_hda_intel
remove snd_hda_intel /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd_hda_intel
install snd_hda_intel /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd_hda_intel
options snd_hda_intel index=1 id=ALC-883
....

If you want to blacklist it you can also use index=-2 for the index number.

Also blacklisting the pc-speaker module has helped too.

Code:

PC speaker enabled by default

you can disable it completely by creating a file /etc/modprobe.d/disable-pcspkr.conf with the following line:

blacklist pcspkr

Hope this helps a fellow muso.

Cheers Glenn

jkzfixme · 11-17-2009, 01:57 PM

GlennsPref,
I appreciate the response however my underlying problem is that I bought a firewire mixer. Hind sight is 20-20 I wish I went with the usb instead of shelling out the 400 bucks and being forced to have a windows machine running in my house = (

Regards,
JKZfixme