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jclsn

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From: Hamburg

Registered: 2023-04-21

Posts: 11

[SOLVED] Getting Traktor Audio 6 to work on a Pipewire-based system

I am trying to get my Traktor soundcard to work with Pipewire. There is an old thread here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=172333, which describes doing this for ALSA and Pulseaudio. I guess much has changed since then.

aplay -L shows the following. There are no surround sinks on this card, so this seems like generic mapping.

sysdefault:CARD=T6
    Traktor Audio 6, USB Audio
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=T6,DEV=0
    Traktor Audio 6, USB Audio
    Front output / input
surround21:CARD=T6,DEV=0
    Traktor Audio 6, USB Audio
    2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=T6,DEV=0
    Traktor Audio 6, USB Audio
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=T6,DEV=0
    Traktor Audio 6, USB Audio
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=T6,DEV=0
    Traktor Audio 6, USB Audio
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=T6,DEV=0
    Traktor Audio 6, USB Audio
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=T6,DEV=0
    Traktor Audio 6, USB Audio
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=T6,DEV=0
    Traktor Audio 6, USB Audio
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
usbstream:CARD=T6
    Traktor Audio 6
    USB Stream Output

and aplay -l

card 3: T6 [Traktor Audio 6], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Unfortunately the link to the NI forum does not exist anymore. I have tried to change the posted .asoundrc accordingly

pcm.T6_capture {
        type dsnoop
        ipc_key 1646
        slave {
                pcm "hw:T6"
                period_time 3
                period_size 512
                buffer_size 32768
                rate 48000
                channels 10
        }
}

pcm.T6_playback {
        type dmix
        ipc_key 1646
        slave {
                pcm "hw:T6"
                period_time 3
                period_size 512
                buffer_size 32768
                rate 48000
                channels 10
        }
}

pcm.T6_duplex {
        type asym
        playback.pcm T6_playback
        capture.pcm T6_capture
}

pcm.T6_pair1 {
        type plug
        ttable.0.0 1.0
        ttable.1.1 1.0
        slave.pcm T6_duplex
}

pcm.T6_pair2 {
        type plug
        ttable.0.2 1.0
        ttable.1.3 1.0
        slave.pcm T6_duplex
}

pcm.T6_pair3 {
        type plug
        ttable.0.4 1.0
        ttable.1.5 1.0
        slave.pcm T6_duplex
}

Not sure if this is even needed anymore. I remember having got the card to work with Mixxx a few years back with the .asoundrc from the NI forum though.

Last edited by jclsn (2024-03-30 12:55:58)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,764

Re: [SOLVED] Getting Traktor Audio 6 to work on a Pipewire-based system

You generally do not need an asoundrc if pipewire integration is the goal. Remove that, and check/post

pactl list cards
pactl list sinks

what doesn't work exactly?

jclsn

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From: Hamburg

Registered: 2023-04-21

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Getting Traktor Audio 6 to work on a Pipewire-based system

Nevermind, I already found the answer here

https://wiki.xwax.org/list_of_soundcard … ts-audio-6