alsa-scarlett-gui(1)

✨ alsa-scarlett-gui(1) ✨

okay bestie, let's talk about alsa-scarlett-gui 💖 It's a Gtk4 GUI for the ALSA controls that the Focusrite Scarlett/Clarett kernel driver presents. Literally the cutest little control panel for your interface 🎀

📝 NAME

alsa-scarlett-gui - Gtk4 GUI for the ALSA controls presented by the Focusrite Scarlett/Clarett kernel driver ✨

📋 SYNOPSIS

alsa-scarlett-gui [FILE]

🌸 DESCRIPTION

Okay so alsa-scarlett-gui is a Gtk4 GUI for the ALSA controls presented by the Linux kernel Focusrite Scarlett Gen 2/3/Clarett USB/Clarett+ Mixer Driver. Main character energy 💅

Focusrite USB audio interfaces are class compliant, which means they work "out of the box" on Linux as audio and MIDI interfaces 🦋 (although on Gen 3 you need to disable MSD mode first for full functionality). Ngl, except for some of the smallest models, they have a whole bunch of proprietary functionality that needed a kernel driver written specifically for those devices. It's giving pure hardware drama 💀

Linux kernel support ("ALSA Focusrite Scarlett Gen 2/3 Mixer Driver") for that proprietary functionality was first added in:

• Scarlett Gen 2: Linux 5.4 (bugs fixed in Linux 5.14) 🌈
• Scarlett Gen 3: Linux 5.14 🌈
• Clarett+ 8Pre: Linux 6.1 🌈
• Clarett 2Pre/4Pre/8Pre USB, Clarett+ 2Pre/4Pre: coming soon 🧚

For full documentation, see: https://github.com/geoffreybennett/alsa-scarlett-gui 💜

🎀 OPTIONS

• FILE — Load the specified .state file on start 🍓

🐛 BUGS

Bestie, here's the tea on what's still not quite there yet 🙈

• The linear-dB scale of the volume controls doesn't work well. Lower volumes (e.g. below -30dB) don't need as much fine control as higher volumes. 😭
• Can't select (focus) the gain/volume controls or use a keyboard to adjust them. 😭
• Level (monitoring) doesn't work yet and is disabled (needs kernel driver update). 😭
• Load/Save uses alsactl which will be confused if the ALSA interface name (e.g. USB) changes. 😭
• Load/Save is not implemented for simulated interfaces. 😭
• Lots of "couldn't find weak ref" warnings are emitted when loading a state file for simulation. 😭
• The read-only status of controls in interface simulation mode does not change when the HW/SW button is clicked. 😭
• When there's more than one main window open, closing one of them doesn't free and close everything related to that card. 😭
• There is no facility to group channels into stereo pairs (needs kernel support to save this information in the interface). 😭
• There is no facility to give channels custom names (needs kernel support to save this information in the interface). 😭
• No keyboard accelerators (e.g. Ctrl-Q to quit) have been implemented. 😭

Byeee, version 0.2.32-1, dated 08 Nov 2023, alsa-scarlett-gui(1) 🦋💖✨