[linux-audio-user] Recording from SB Live Drive

[Pete Hamling]

Thanks for the help, much appreciated!  I've managed to record just the
line in from the back of my SBLive without capturing other sources. Yay!
:-) 

But I still cannot capture from the LiveDrive Line in.  It seems if I
turn the "Capture" control off or set it to anything apart from "MIX" I
cannot record anything. And if I set it to "MIX" I can record
everything!! ;-)  If anyone else has can help me out with this it will
save me getting dusty when plugging things into the back of my PC! :-)

Thanks again,

Pete

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 01:35, Paul Perkins wrote:
> Yes, I can't believe how ugly the SBLive mixing interface looks in all
> the generic ALSA mixer programs. Zillions of cryptically labeled
> controls, yuck. You want to make your card stop "capturing" the mix
> input, and capture the Live Drive line in. I don't have the Live Drive,
> so I capture regular "line". In "gamix", the mixer that has confused me
> slightly less than the others, I have to turn "AC 97 Capture" all the
> way up, "AC 97 Playback" all the way down, find the box that says just
> plain "Capture", set the choice menus in the box to "Line",  make sure
> the little box is "on" (dark gray instead of light gray), and adjust the
> volume sliders (still in the Capture box) to somewhere in the middle.
> But I see there is a separate area for dealing with "Line / LiveDrive
> Capture" so to record from there, who knows? Logically you would want to
> turn off the Capture thing I use (light gray in the little square below
> the volume sliders) and enable the LiveDrive Capture (dark gray in both
> little squares above the other volume sliders). Confused? Me too!
> 
> On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 15:31, Pete Hamling wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Sorry, but I'm tearing out my hair here! :-)  I've read quite a lot
> > about this, but I can't seem to understand/find the answer.
> > 
> > I can record from the Line in of my Live Drive, but I would like to
> > record _just_ the audio coming in and not any other audio playing on the
> > system.  I would like to hear the backing track though my head phones
> > and then record through the line in, but the recording always records
> > everything coming out of my speakers. Is this possible?  If so what
> > mixer settings should I have?
> > 
> > Seeing lots of people producing good music with there SBLive is making
> > me jealous!! :-)
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > 
> > Pete
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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