[linux-audio-user] RME Basics

[Paul Davis]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 17:10 -0500, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
> So I just pulled out my old sound card and installed a brand new RME 
> HDSP 96/32 - the one that can do 192 KHz.  Now I am looking for basic 
> info on the mixer in it, and the basics of how to get it up and 
> running.  I ran alsaconf, got the interface in, but apparently the mixer 
> is a bit different, due to the DSP mixer onboard most likely I would 
> assume, and unfortunatly alsamixer is leaving me a bit behind on this 
> compared to my older ICE1712 based card.  So yea looking for basics of 
> how to use the mixer with it I suppose.  GUI based applications wouldnt 
> hurt I suppose, but console based examples is also good.

you need hdspmixer, which is in one of the alsapackages. alsamixer and
other tools have no way to handle the idea of a matrix mixer. otoh,
hdspmixer is very complex - be sure to read docs on the RME site, since
it works identically (same bitmaps etc) as the win/mac version.

i am not sure you can get 192KHz from the existing ALSA driver.

--p