TASCAM US-428 ON LINUX

• Install alsa-firmware

    # pacman -S alsa-firmware
  

• Get alsa-tools

    $ wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/tools/alsa-tools-1.0.22.tar.bz2
  

• Install usx2yloader

    $ tar xvf alsa-tools-1.0.22.tar.bz2
    $ cd alsa-tools-1.0.22/usx2yloader
    $ ./configure --help
    $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
    $ make
    $ sudo make install
  

• Install us428control

    $ cd ../us428control
    $ ./configure --help
    $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
    $ make
    $ sudo make install
  

• Install fxload from AUR

• Install udev-tascam-usx2y from AUR

• Check the udev rules

    # vi /etc/udev/rules.d/55-tascam-usx2y.rules
  

  and edit accordingly. (For me, remove ‘-m mixxx’)

• Turn it on and rock out

References

• udev rules
• alsa page on usx2y