[LAU] [Fwd: Re: Master volume control for M-Audio 2496?]

[david]

We're still not there yet. From my friend

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 > > Step by step instructions:

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 > > The "Digital Mix" setting will mix down all PCMs to a stereo pair
 > > and output it on H/W Out 1 and 2.

What it does is mix things down to two stereo pairs, where you have to 
raise, or lower two controls to get full sound. Alsamixer and Kmix 
supports this, too.

 > > 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.

Actually, at the defaut setting, you get 0 sound.

 > > Another responder asked just what you were trying to do, I told him
 > > you were just trying to play ogg/flac files through the card as
 > > line-level outputs into your home stereo. Yes?

That's right. I have everything turned up, and am working with PCM at 
this point.

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

-- 
David
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