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  1. # /etc/modprobe.d/snd_usb_audio.conf
    options snd_usb_audio vid=<vid1>,<vid2> pid=<pid1>,<pid2> index=<index1>,<index2> enable=1,1
    

    example:

    # 5: M-Audio Fast Track Pro 
    # 6: Focusrite Scarlett 6i6
    options snd_usb_audio vid=0x763,0x1235 pid=0x2012,0x8012 index=5,6 enable=1,1
    

    See also: http://alsa.opensrc.org/MultipleCards

  2. # list USB devices
    $ lsusb
    
    # list cards detected by ALSA
    $ cat /proc/asound/cards
    
    # list cards supported  by PulseAudio
    $ pacmd list-cards | grep name:
    
  3. 18i8 ALSA driver:

    Scarlett Mixer GUIs:

    ALSA mixer:

    Combo patch:

    ALSA/Linux support (kernel mainline):

    ALSA/Linux support (experimental):

    PulseAudio issues:

    Jack latency tuning:

  4. Because year-end lists are hip, here's 10 albums I loved from this year with tiny blurbs why, in no particular order: Intronaut - Habitual Levitations - Heavy, but thoughtful and risk-taking, truly original music Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse - Incredible songwriting and arranging. Moderat - II - Production and grooves! Revocation - Revocation - Thrashy yet refined and technical Fat Freddy's Drop - Blackbird - Deeply funky grooves in the reggae/r&b vibe Cloudkicker - Subsume - Gorgeous layering of guitars upon guitars anchored by some killer math-y grooves. Dawn of Midi - Dysnomia - Deconstructed jazz trio music turns into mesmerizing overlapping loops. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer - Exactly what you'd expect from DEP, which is not knowing what to expect. Equally spazzy and melodic. Jaga Jazzist - Official Page - Live w/Britten Sinfonia - Re-arrangements of 10-piece neo-jazz compositions to allow room for a full orchestra, it sounds big! Shining - One One One - A refinement of their metal/jazz sound into incredibly powerful 4 minute songs.

  5. Basic concepts of acoustics and electronics and how they can applied to understand musical sound and make music with electronic instruments. Topics include: sound waves, musical sound, basic electronics, and applications of these basic principles in amplifiers and speaker design.

  6. HTM5 interactive player that can be embedded in any web application to provide fancy waveforms, various analyzer results, synced time metadata display during playback (time-marking) and remote indexing.

    (via http://linuxfr.org/users/philippemc/journaux/beatnitpicker)