posted 07 November 2010 06:24            

ssc-roland-m1000.txt ssc-access-virus-ti.txt ssc-yamaha-motif-rack-es.txt

This is my first post here, but I am reading it for two years already.
Now I received my Pacarana - and with new hardware, new questions appeared.

I own rather good music devices with USB interface and wanted to use them with Pacarana.
How easy is it? may be simply their DeviceIDs are enough for enabling Paca support?
I can be tester

1. USB Audio
Roland M-1000 digital mixer: http://www.roland.com/products/en/M-1000/
It can act as USB Audio in/out.
Characteristics:
stereo,
44.1, 48, 96 KHz @ 24 bit.
S/PDIF: in and out , coaxial and optical,
plus Analog in and out.

2. USB Audio and MIDI
Access Virus Ti (I own Desktop version): http://www.access-music.de/page/render/lang/en/p/62/do/Virus_TI_technical_specifications.html http://emusician.com/elecinstruments/emusic_access_music_virus_ti/
USB audio: 192 KHz @ 24 bit
S/PDIF in/out 44.1/48 KHz, in/out
Analog in: 2 channels
Analog out: 6 channels
USB MIDI: in, out, thru

3. USB MIDI (8-channel!)
Yamaha Morif Rack ES with USB-MIDI http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music-production/tone-generators/motif-rack_es/?mode=model

These are their IDs:
(if needed, I can post full output of Linux dmesg and lsusb).

PS. full output in attachment

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Device ID of Roland M-1000

bMaxPacketSize0 8
idVendor 0x0582 Roland Corp.
idProduct 0x0036
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 1 Roland
iProduct 2 ROLAND M-1000
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1

For Virus TI:
bMaxPacketSize0 16
idVendor 0x133e
idProduct 0x0815
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 1 Access Music
iProduct 2 Virus TI
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1

For Yamaha Motif Rack ES:
bMaxPacketSize0 8
idVendor 0x0499 Yamaha Corp.
idProduct 0x103c MOTIF-RACK ES
bcdDevice 1.00
iManufacturer 1 YAMAHA Corporation
iProduct 2 YAMAHA MOTIF-RACK ES
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1

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posted 07 November 2010 11:48            

I tested more thoroughly.
No luck All three are determined in Pacarana (I see their names and number of channels at the panel),
I can switch input and output to them at the panel,
but can not access them from Kyma.
(1,3) Roland M1000 and Yamaha Motif Rack ES :
Kyma shows repeating Firewire error and Pacarana inaccessibility,
and even freezes after showing number of CPUs and RAM volume, if I choose to restart DSP.
(2) Virus TI is determined OK and shown in DSP Status window,
but I can not switch to it (option present, but not selectable)

Concerning drivers - Vista is asking for drivers, but Linux is OK with its standard driver "usb-audio".