Mbox2 + Ardour on Ubuntu Studio

[strangemusic]

Hi,
I've installed Ubuntu Studio 15.04.
a Digidesign USB Mbox2 Mini is recognized and I can record with Audacity.
But I want to use Mbox with Ardour and I cannot.

What I did:
- I launched Ardour
- Ardour asked for the deviced: I've choosen Mbox
- A popup sayd: Could not reconnect to the Audio/MIDI engine

mhm... what should I do?

thanks in advance

[strangemusic]

I've also tried to kill pulseaudio and start jack

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pulseaudio --kill

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jackd -t 200 -p 2048 -R -T -d alsa -n 2 -r 44100 -p 1024 -d hw:MBox,0

but

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jackdmp 1.9.10
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2014 Grame.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
no message buffer overruns
`default' server already active
Failed to open server

[strangemusic]

If you're running ardour, you don't need to start jackd manually. Ardour will do that for you as needed.
Also if you only are going to use Ardour, consider using ALSA instead of JACK (within ardour)

Dear falkTX,
I've just installed Ubuntu Studio on my laptop as it is.
How can I use ALSA instead of JACK? If you give a look to the attachment, JACK is the only Audio System I can choose and ALSA as Driver is already choosen as otpion.

[rghvdberg]

You should be able to click on the jack button and select alsa.
Before starting ardour stop jack from cadence.

[strangemusic]

I found out how to recordm but not how to hear with Ardour.
- Open QjackCtl
- Click on SetUp (Impostazioni): both input and output (dispositivo d'entrata e dispositivo d'uscita): hw:MBox
- Close SetUp
- Start JACK

- open Ardour
- create two new Tracks for the two audio line of MBox
- click on the record button on both tracks, on record button on the top-bar and then play... it'll record!

now I cannot hear any sound, that's the next problem.
I'll open a new topic...

[strangemusic]

here the next question: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17323#p83100

[strangemusic]

I found out how to recordm but not how to hear with Ardour.
- Open QjackCtl
- Click on SetUp (Impostazioni): both input and output (dispositivo d'entrata e dispositivo d'uscita): hw:MBox
- Close SetUp
- Start JACK

- open Ardour
- create two new Tracks for the two audio line of MBox
- click on the record button on both tracks, on record button on the top-bar and then play... it'll record!

now I cannot hear any sound, that's the next problem.
I'll open a new topic...

not forget to switch the 48v in MBox if needed!
LED 48V
Questo LED, quando acceso, indica che l'alimentazione phantom a 48V è attiva negli ingressi Mic/Line. Questi ingressi forniscono alimentazione phantom ai microfoni che la richiedono. L'alimentazione Phantom viene attivata mediante l'interruttore 48V posto nella parte superiore del pannello posteriore di Mbox.