Ubuntu – How to get the fender mustang working on ubuntu studio

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I’m new to Linux and I use Ubuntu Studio and being a adept Windows user my troubleshooting capabilities are bound to GUI and not emulator.

Coming to the problem, I would like to use my Fender Mustang guitar amplifier on Ubuntu studio..
so,

my Mustang amplifier is not detected by Ubuntu through USB port, 

antony@antony-OptiPlex-9020:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 413c:2107 Dell Computer Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0461:4e22 Primax Electronics, Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1130:1620 Tenx Technology, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 1058:10b8 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 054c:05b7 Sony Corp. 
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/mustang-plug/

tried this doesn’t work

made rule exception and put it in proper folder

sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/50-mustang.rules

and pasted this as suggested in plug website

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1ed8",
ATTRS{idProduct}=="0004", GROUP="plugdev"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1ed8",
ATTRS{idProduct}=="0005", GROUP="plugdev"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1ed8",
ATTRS{idProduct}=="0006", GROUP="plugdev"

then I try to compile it after getting qt4 and libusb-dev using

antony@antony-OptiPlex-9020:~$ cd plug-1.1-x86-64
antony@antony-OptiPlex-9020:~/plug-1.1-x86-64$ qmake plug
WARNING: /home/antony/plug-1.1-x86-64/plug:2: Unescaped backslashes are deprecated.
WARNING: /home/antony/plug-1.1-x86-64/plug:5: Unmatched quotes are deprecated.
Braces mismatch /home/antony/plug-1.1-x86-64/plug:7
Error processing project file: plug

and here is the list of my playback devices

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3220 Analog [ALC3220 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI_1 [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 3: AUDIO [USB  AUDIO], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

So there I get a warning and error which I don’t have a clue what it is.

Checked it out in QjackCTL didn’t find my device anywhere..

Using my Fender Mustang presently with fuse in Windows, I would enjoy using with Linux..

Best Answer

You should use a AV specialized distro as the system is optimized very different from a desktop.

See http://libremusicproduction.com/articles/advantages-choosing-audio-orientated-linux-distribution for details

Try Ubuntu studio or KXStudio or Fedora Jam (KXStudio is my personal favorite)

http://ubuntustudio.org/

http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/

http://spins.fedoraproject.org/jam-kde/

Support on IRC at #linuxmusicians

Support is limited on "standard desktop" versions due to the various customizations to AV oriented spins.

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