You were right Glennbo, cras was still taking over something! It took a while, but we figured it out on Linux Musicians:
https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic...135472#p135472
Apparently I needed to filter ALSA to my hardware:
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton...ly-(ALSA,-JACK)
For those of you wanting to make your chromebook a DAW (it doesn't matter what version of Ubuntu you have I've found out), you have to make a file with contents,
~~~
> .asoundrc
xdg-open .asoundrc
~~~
and then put the contents found on
https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wi ... LSA,-JACK)
~~~
# ~/.asoundrc
# overrides default alsa settings
# To revert back to CRAS, change "type hw" with "type cras". You do not have to change "card".
pcm.!default {
type hw
card UMC1820
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card UMC1820
}
~~~
into the mousepad window, but once I did that, it worked!
REAPER was slower on start up, but I could use ALSA as an audio device and have multiple inputs.
The final process I needed to do was click "view" on my user file manager and then hit "Show hidden files" so that I could click ".asoundcr" and rewrite the code to use cras again. Wahoo! Finally an answer to this two month problem!