[linux-audio-user] alsamixer and the audiophile 2496

[Joey Reid]

On May 13, 2004, at 7:06 PM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:

> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:31:41PM -0300, Joey Reid wrote:
>> envy24control may make _more_ sense, but it still gives me grief (note
>> - i am not the original poster). although i have it mostlyfigured out,
>> it does wiered things to me like setting the HW outs to PCM1/PCM2 
>> after
>> I have set them to Digital Mix.
>
> Interesting .. I sometimes have similar issues, but I'm pretty sure 
> it's
> only been when my machine was locking up (bad RAM issues) and the
> alsasound init script didn't get a chance to shut down cleanly and do
> it's alsactl store to save the settings. When I got the box back up I
> would be surprised for a moment that the settings were where I left
> them.

nope. this happens if i alt-tab to qjackctl, fiddle with connections, 
alt-tab to ardour, fiddle with stuff, and then hit "play"

>  But, your problem sounds like a different issue. Which version are
> you using?
>

envy24control says it's 0.1.0. it is actually not the one that came 
with alsa tools, but an rpm that i found with just envy24control 
compile with gtk2.

>> Of course it is likely that I am doing something wrong. I am using 
>> jack
>> with ardour and hydrogen, and i find that often when i am switching
>> from capturing to playing back, the mixer has "magically" switched
>> itself while i was messing with the jack connections.
>
> I usually just have jack running in full duplex, so I haven't seen
> anything like that.
>

which leads me to another question, which is "do i have a clue what i 
am doing yet?" I bought the audiophile because it is high quality, and 
has hardware monitoring for zero latency. mostly based on  reading 
archives of this list :-) But i haven't really found any docs on how to 
use this setup, so i am figuring it out on my own. I go into ardour 
(which is very cool, but also very complex for someone like me who has 
never done recording before) and turn on the "hardware monitoring" 
option. i also have h/w monitor turned on in qjackctl. When I do this, 
things stop making noise unless i pipe them directly into the digital 
mix  in envy24control. a little awkward, but it would be ok if the 
settings in envy24control didn't change themselves.

so what i would like to know is, does anyone have a doc that explains 
how to configure ardour, jack, and the envy24control  to work together? 
at least, if someone could explain to me here how they work with a 
setup similar to mine. i see lots of posts saying "use envy24control", 
but they don't explain what to do with it. i could use someone with a 
bit of experience to help me up the curve, and if someone can do that i 
would gladly write an envy24/jack/ardour howto.

> -Eric Rz.