[LAU] zoom h2 software mixer?

[Justin Smith]

The mixing I need is controlling the monitor level of the mic. It
seems to be always on if the mic is on at all. Actually it may not be
a separate control on this chip. I guess I could expect as much from a
$200 sound card / flash card reader / 4 channel flash card surround
recorder / mp3 player / tuner / metronome / toaster (guess which it
does not actually do).

I cannot seem to find the chip documented anywhere, but I do know that
it uses the standard snd_usb_audio module.

It seems like my best workaround is to use the h2 only as an input,
except its output is a bit better than my built in sound card and I
need about 16 times the latency and still get xruns every couple of
seconds if I use the separate devices for input/output.

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:31 PM,  <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 22:10:04 -0700
> "Justin Smith" <noisesmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To celebrate my new full time job, and payday, I just got a zoom h2.
>> It records four channels from its four microphones, runs on AA
>> batteries, and can be accessed as a hard drive or a sound card (sadly
>> only two mics at a time when a sound card). Excellent little machine
>> for the price.
>>
>> My one problem is that alsa (either via amixer, alsamixer or
>> oss-emulation mixer via aumix) will not give me any mixer controls. Am
>> I stuck with using the silly buttons on the machine for all mixing,
>> when I use it as a sound card? How hard would it be to write a mixer
>> for it... is the problem a lack of developer time or an issue with the
>> device itself?
>
> What kind of mixing controls do you need? If it's just simple stuff for
> playback/working with alsa, it might be possible to use another layer,
> like pulseaudio.
> For jack, I think there is a pretty sophisticated mixer available. I
> never used it myself, I think it is called jackmixer or something.
>
> I don't know what kind of chip it uses, maybe you can use a mixer app
> for other soundcards? (Envy24 control, ...)
>
> Best Regards,
>        Philipp
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