On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Brett McCoy <<a href="mailto:idragosani@gmail.com">idragosani@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
That's it, the master monitor level, it's what is used for the digital<br>
mix (which is what is used for being able to monitor what is being<br>
recorded while listening to audio that has been recorded. What is he's<br>
trying to do? For applications that only use stereo out, channel 1 and<br>
channel 2 would be used as the volume for the application (although<br>
typically the application would have its own volume control, which is<br>
usually controls what 2 outs you have mapped to the card).<br>
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On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:17 PM, david <<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> And my friend tried envy24control and reported this:<br>
><br>
> "I installed alsa-tools-gui, and the envy24control tool was impressive,<br>
> but had no master volume control, whether in digital mixer mode, or not.<br>
> It has a master monitor mode, but no master volume."<br>
><br>
> R Dicaire wrote:<br>
> > envy24control is the m-audio mixer, have him check his distros<br>
> > repository for it, it might be part of a package called alsa-tools-gui<br>
> > (debian, and possibly ubuntu).<br>
> ><br>
> > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:19 PM, david <<a href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com">gnome@hawaii.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> A friend of mine, who is an audiophile but doesn't make music, is using<br>
> >> one with his Linux server (among other things, it serves audio into<br>
> >> their stereo system). He tells me there's no master volume control for<br>
> >> the card. He's tried KMix (no use whatever) and is now using alsamixer<br>
> >> (but no master volume control). Anyway to get a master volume control<br>
> >> for that card?<br>
><br>
> Brett McCoy wrote:<br>
> > Use the envy24control tool (it's designed specifically for the M-Audio<br>
> > Audiophile and Delta interfaces), it has volume controls for all of<br>
> > the channels plus a master volume if you are in digital mixer mode.<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Step by step instructions:<br><br>1) Open envy24control.<br><br>2) Switch to the "Patchbay / Router" tab.<br><br>3) Select "Digital Mix L" in the "H/W Out 1 (L)" channel strip and "Digital Mix R" in the "H/W Out 2 (R)" strip.<br>
<br>4) Switch to the "Monitor PCMs" tab.<br><br>5) "L/R Gang", rise the fader and unmute "Left" and "Right" in both the "PCM Out 1" and "PCM Out 2" channel strip.<br>
<br>The "Digital Mix" setting will mix down all PCMs to a stereo pair and output it on H/W Out 1 and 2.<br><br>You should now have sound, but at a much lower level than when you had "PCM Out 1" and "PCM Out 2" selected in the "Patchbay / Router", so you might want to raise the volume output level in the application that is supposed to make some sound.<br>
<br>-- <br>Anders Dahnielson<br><<a href="mailto:anders@dahnielson.com">anders@dahnielson.com</a>>