M-Audio Fast Track Pro in Linux

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+<p>Guitar Center had <a href="http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product?sku=241710">these</a> on sale cheap, and I couldn’t resist. It claimed to be “class compliant” on the box for 2 channel input and 4 channel output at 16-bit/48khz, so I figured it was worth a try.</p>
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+<p>Much to my amazement, it actually works. At least, mostly. I get the following in /sys/class/sound:</p>
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+<pre><code>adsp
+audio
+controlC0
+dmmidi
+dsp
+midi
+midiC0D0
+mixer
+pcmC0D0p
+pcmC0D1c
+pcmC0D1p
+</code></pre>
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+<p>mplayer can play to both stereo output channels on the device, but only at 16-bit/44.1khz, as far as I can tell:</p>
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+<pre><code>mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0.0
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+mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0.1
+</code></pre>
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+<p>Both streams work at once (the headphone stream switch button on the front is really nice), and it sounds great!</p>
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