I may be the only human on the planet attempting this hardware configuration…on Ubuntu 24.04.04, with VCVRack Pro 2.6.6.
I have a Tascam Model 12 and and Expert Sleepers ES-9. I need inputs and outputs from both. I have a Jack profile for one and the other, and either will work on its own. The unusual thing I’m attempting to do is operate both at once–the Model 12 for myself, and the ES-9 sits on a table for my friends to plug into when we’re jamming.
When I use the Jack driver for the Model 12, then I can’t load the Jack driver for the ES-9. So what I THOUGHT would work would be to use the generic ALSA driver for the ES-9. And it kiiiind of works. It recognizes the first two inputs, and plays them into VCVRack smoothly. Midi also works fine with both devices. But with ALSA "Generic Device 1-16 in, 1-16 out” I only get 2 inputs, and 0 outputs from the ES-9. I assumed it would work perfectly until we tried to plug in 4 different inputs last night.
PulseAudio sits there so tantalizingly–it offers an ES-9 profile with correct inputs and outputs, but when I click on it nothing happens. It appears I can’t run PulseAudio alongside Jack?
I saw a checkbox in qjackctl, “single app instance.” I unchecked it, thinking I could just start up another instance of Jack to run the ES-9. But if I can, I don’t know how. I have a fear of the command line that is unbecoming of a Linux user.
Apologies for this query that is too abstruse for general users, and too dumb for power users.