[linux-audio-user] Good mixer for Delta 1010LT...

[Jan Depner]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 00:15, lee wrote:
> Paul Winkler wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:13:08PM -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> > 
> >>On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 13:27, lee wrote:
> >>
> >>>derek holzer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Is there anything out there other than the regular Alsamixergui or Gnome
> >>>>>alsa-mixer that has some flexibility here?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Try envy24control. It's in alsa-tools. It's the only one that lets you 
> >>>>access all the controls of the soundcard.
> >>>
> >>>The one thing that threw me off (and I believe this qualifies as a bug 
> >>>or perhaps confusing feature) is the digital mixer for all the channels 
> >>>gives two faders per channel. So if you raise both faders on channel 
> >>>one, it will send the same signal to both speakers. If you raise both 
> >>>faders on channel two, it will do the same, effectively adding the two 
> >>>signals together giving an output level twice as loud as what's actually 
> >>>getting sent to the mixer.
> >>>
> >>
> >>That's a feature.  It just takes some getting used to.  Normally I raise
> >>left on one channel and right on another.  This allows you to mix some
> >>left into right and right into left or swap left and right.
> > 
> > 
> > I agree that it's a feature, but IMHO the UI is less than ideal.
> > I think I'd prefer a single slider and some kind of pan widget.
> > 
> This feature makes the "l+r gang" button on each channel useless, since 
> the way I have always used analog mixers for stereo tracks is to gang 
> channel one and channel two, each paned hard left and right so I can 
> control stereo volume with one slider. As it is now I have to raise two 
> sliders for stereo tracks, which would work alright with a physical 
> mixing desk but I only have one mouse pointer.
> 

	No, not useless.  It gangs left and right for that channel so that you
can put more left than right in, gang the controls, and then raise and
lower them together.  I think there probably needs to be a way to gang
different input channels in addition to this functionality.  Sort of
like the way we gang compressor controls in JAMin.

Jan