Linux-audio-dev September 2010

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by Natanael Olaiz

Hi, Does anyone knows if is possible to make a RME HDSPe RayDAT work properly under Linux? I cannot make it sync correctly with the adat outputs, even if in the alsamixer I select "Sample Clock Source": "Internal 48Khz", the slave devices got sync as 44.1Khz, and it doesn't sound properly (not only the SR). I only found by google some mails by Fernando, Florian and a few others, but any of those helped me to make it work. I also tried changing HDSPM_freqReg to 100 MHz (see [1]) but didn't seem to help (anyway, on monday I'll do further tests with that). Any news on that? Can someone give me some hints to make further tests? Thanks in advance, Natanael. [1] http://www.mentby.com/dougall-irving/rme-hdspe-raydat.html

15 years, 4 months

[LAD] ADAT digital audio receiver and transmitter circuit

by Niels Mayer

Is there a mass-market (a cheap module from china/taiwan/hongkong) equivalent of the OptoRec and OptoGen , which could be usefully hooked up to a few of these: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230418195291 to make a useful multichannel D/A for an ADAT lightpipe ; the optorec could likewise be paired with external A/D's or used to "vampire" an I2S signal from external digital gear w/o digital outputs. Also, experience with assembling and/or using the OpenRec/OptoGen? http://electronics.dantimax.dk/Kits/Digital_audio/11329401182.html .................. OptoRec and OptoGen ADAT digital audio receiver and transmitter circuit These kits is [sic] an 8-channel interface circuit using the ADAT protocol. They supports the sample rates 44.1 and 48kHz and up to 24 bits. The boards can be used for adding an ADAT input to a DAC, an ADAT output to an ADC or for DIY projects. The receiver board includes an ADAT input, ADAT output, a wordclock input and I2S outputs. The transmitter board includes an ADAT output and I2S inputs. The kits use SMD parts, so some SMD experience may be needed to assemble the board. SOT-23-5 parts are used, so a fine-tipped soldering iron (or SMD tools) is needed. .................. It's that "SMD experience" needed part that really gets me. I will invariably get a blob of solder bridging two SMD pins, and then in the course of trying to correct my mistake manage to get it bridging a few more pins and melting the ic or lifting the pad of the pc board. there's a reason i went into software. The undo key. Niels http://nielsmayer.com

15 years, 4 months

[LAD] [ANN] DSSI 1.1.0 release

by Sean Bolton

Announcing the DSSI Soft Synth Interface version 1.1.0 release: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/ DSSI is an audio plugin API for software instruments and effects, based on LADSPA, the ALSA sequencer event types, and OSC (Open Sound Control) communications. DSSI is now supported by six full-featured hosts, several specialized hosts, and at least twenty-four DSSI plugins. (See the above URL for a list.) New in the DSSI 1.1.0 release: * New jack-dssi-host command line option '-c' to set the ALSA and JACK client names. * New 'dssi_list_plugins' and 'dssi_analyse_plugin' command line tools. * Example GUIs have been updated to Qt 4. Bugfixes: * Fixed jack-dssi-host ALSA client ports to be of type 'application'. * Fixed the MIDI CC mapping in trivial_synth. * Fixed an uninitialized variable bug in less_trivial_synth. Enjoy! Sean Bolton

15 years, 4 months

[LAD] Mouse/knob interaction

by Gordon JC Pearce

This is going to stir up a bit of discussion! Rotary knob GUI elements - should you move the mouse in a circle to operate them, or up and down? What about side to side? Gordon MM0YEQ

15 years, 4 months

[LAD] [ANN] Linux.conf.au 2011 multimedia miniconf: call for papers

by Jonathan Woithe

Continuing the tradition from past conferences, the LCA Multimedia Miniconf is back at Linux.conf.au 2011 (LCA2011). Linux.conf.au 2011 will be hosted in Brisbane, Australia from 24-29 January 2011 with the miniconfs being held over the first two days. For more information about the conference check out http://lca2011.linux.org.au/. Multimedia encapsulates a wide variety of topics: composition and playpack of video, audio and music. Submissions are now invited from those interested in giving presentations or short tutorials at the Multimedia miniconf on any topic related to opensource multimedia software, such as the following: * exciting new additions to existing software * development of new multimedia programs * how to set Linux up for multimedia composition, authoring and/or playback * great user experiences with open source multimedia software * legal issues surrounding multimedia content and its use with open source software * descriptions of multimedia workflows: tools used, process followed, and so forth * upcoming features in low-level infrastructure (JACK, ALSA, PulseAudio, etc) * any other open source multimedia topic we haven't thought of It is expected that most of the miniconf presentation slots will be around 20 minutes with question time to follow. We may be able to accommodate longer 50 minute presentations depending on the number of proposals offered. In addition, time will be allocated for 5 minute "lightning talks". Projection facilities will be available. Please note that in line with linux.conf.au guidelines miniconfs cannot receive funding, nor can they provide travel or accommodation assistance. In general presenters and attendees at miniconfs must be registered for LCA2011 although miniconf-only registration can be arranged - contact the multimedia minconf organisers for more information. To submit a proposal please send the following to lca-mm(a)lists.annodex.net or one of the organisers by Thursday 6 October 2010 00:00 UT: * your name and preferred email address * the title of your talk * a brief abstract describing what you want to talk about (up to about 500 words) * your preferred presentation length For more information about the miniconf please refer to the website http://www.annodex.org/events/lca2011_mmm/ or contact one of the organisers (Jonathan Woithe, Silvia Pfeiffer, Roderick Dornan - addresses are on the website). Regards Jonathan Woithe LCA2011 Multimedia miniconf organiser

15 years, 4 months

[LAD] mudita24 summing pct outs

by David Santamauro

I was playing with alsa arecord and daring to brave a .asoundrc for my delta 1010. I set up a multi-out and monitor mix to grab the digital mixer output [1] pcm.delta1010 { type hw card M1010 device 0 } # send to all outputs: pcm.multi { type plug ttable.0.0 1 ttable.0.1 1 ttable.0.2 1 ttable.0.3 1 ttable.0.4 1 ttable.0.5 1 ttable.0.6 1 ttable.0.7 1 ttable.0.8 1 ttable.0.9 1 slave.pcm delta1010 } pcm.mix { type plug ttable.0.10 1 # digital mix left ttable.1.11 1 # digital mix right slave.pcm delta1010 } Monitoring with mudita24, I see the individual levels well below +0 but the digital mixer showing OVER (well, peaked). 2 questions: 1) is this correct to sum the individual pcms (seems that's what it's doing) and 2) is that even correct? recording with arecord -c2 -r44100 -d10 -fS32_LE -V stereo never showed OVERs. Any insight? thanks David [1] http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/1712_.asoundrc

15 years, 4 months

Re: [LAD] Basic Question: SND/SOUND Libraries Seem to be Missing

by Rory Filer

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Robin Gareus <robin(a)gareus.org> wrote: > On 09/13/2010 07:49 PM, Rory Filer wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Robin Gareus <robin(a)gareus.org> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Hi Rory, > >> > >> You're not missing a library but some other kernel modules which provide > >> those symbols. > >> > >> After installing the kernel, run 'depmod' and try to load the module > >> with 'modprobe snd-dummy' instead of 'insmod snd-dummy.ko'. > >> > >> > > Hi Robin, > > > > I appreciate your reply. Unfortunately my embedded system doesn't have > > depmod configured so I'll have to try adding it to Busybox first. > > depmod/modprobe is basically just a handy way to automatically load > module dependencies. It may or may not be overkill for an embedded system. > > FWIW, you should be able to run 'depmod' to generate modules.dep on the > system where you built the kernel. The target system only needs modprobe. > > Did you try to run 'insmod snd.ko snd_pcm.ko' manually before the > 'insmod snd-dummy.ko'. That should work as well. > > Hi Robin, It was reply-to munging that got me on that previous reply. I think there might be some weird stuff with the build/make utility on my target which builds the sound files but isn't seeming to include them in my kernel image. I'll try and figure out all that before rattling the list again. Thanks for your assistance. Rory

15 years, 4 months

[LAD] Basic Question: SND/SOUND Libraries Seem to be Missing

by Rory Filer

Hello, Let me point out in advance that my problem is pretty trivial compared to most of the postings on that list. If a journey in sound engineering on Linux is 1000 steps, I'm at step 1 here. I basically tried configuring sound into the kernel but it didn't seem to work. If you think you can help, please read on. Otherwise, stop here. And thanks to all who continue from here... I want to build sound support into my embedded Linux platform (2.6.28); the CPU supports I2S in silicon, but I haven't got a driver for that yet. My plan is to build the kernel with SOUND/SND configurations enabled and start working on the driver later. In my configurations, I've left all the sound card-specific options out, keeping just the CONFIG_SND_SOC. I thought it would be sufficient to install snd-dummy so that any cross-compiled audio applications could be fooled into working. l rebuilt the kernel after *make clean* and noted several new SND files being compiled. So far so good. The final zImage was only a little larger. Overall, the configuration and build seemed to be going through all the right motions, but when I loaded zImage onto the target I didn't see any bootup logging that suggested audio was now working. As an experiment, I tried to insmod snd_dummy.ko but got a long list of errors. I guess I'm missing something basic. Here's my configuration choices: > CONFIG_SOUND=m > CONFIG_SOUND_OSS_CORE=y > CONFIG_SND=m > CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m > CONFIG_SND_PCM=m > # CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER is not set > CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y > CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m > CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m > CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS=y > # CONFIG_SND_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set > CONFIG_SND_SUPPORT_OLD_API=y > CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS=y > # CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set > # CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set > CONFIG_SND_DRIVERS=y > # CONFIG_SND_PCSP is not set > CONFIG_SND_DUMMY=m > # CONFIG_SND_MTPAV is not set > # CONFIG_SND_MTS64 is not set > # CONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550 is not set > # CONFIG_SND_MPU401 is not set > # CONFIG_SND_PORTMAN2X4 is not set > # CONFIG_SND_ISA is not set > # CONFIG_SND_PCI is not set > # CONFIG_SND_SPI is not set > # CONFIG_SND_USB is not set > # CONFIG_SND_PCMCIA is not set > CONFIG_SND_SOC=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_ALL_CODECS=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_AD73311=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_AK4535=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_CS4270=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_SSM2602=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_TLV320AIC23=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_TLV320AIC26=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_TLV320AIC3X=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_UDA1380=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_WM8510=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_WM8580=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_WM8731=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_WM8750=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_WM8753=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_WM8900=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_WM8903=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_WM8971=m > CONFIG_SND_SOC_WM8990=m > # CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME is not set > And here is the list of errors from installing snd-dummy.ko [root@127 drivers]#insmod snd-dummy.ko Using snd-dummy.ko snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_free_pages snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_set_ops snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_boolean_stereo_info snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_card_new snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_ioctl snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_card_free snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_add snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_new snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_suspend_all snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_period_elapsed snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_card_register snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_format_set_silence snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_pcm_format_width snd_dummy: Unknown symbol snd_ctl_new1 insmod: cannot insert `snd-dummy.ko': Unknown symbol in module (-1): No such fil e or directory Best Regards, Rory

15 years, 4 months

[LAD] [ANN] Drumstick 0.5.0 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Drumstick is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface using Qt4 objects, idioms and style. ALSA sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. Complementary classes for SMF, WRK and OVE file processing are also included. This library is used in KMetronome, KMidimon and KMid2, and was formerly known as "aseqmm". Changes: * OVE file format support, contributed by Rui Fan * Optional RealtimeKit support for MIDI input thread * guiplayer simplified and optimized, with OVE format playback * Build system fixes: using visibility=hidden if it is available, exceptions, static build. Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 or later Project web site http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick Online documentation http://drumstick.sourceforge.net/docs/ Downloads http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/files/

15 years, 4 months

[LAD] interrupt-drive ALSA returning buffers too small

by Gabriel M. Beddingfield

I was going through Paul Davis's excellent tutorial on the ALSA API: http://www.equalarea.com/paul/alsa-audio.html#interruptex I've set alsa to wake me up every N frames. However, when I awake, I find that I often have fewer than N frames available: int err; uint32_t N = 2048, frames_to_deliver; assert( 0 == ((N-1)&N) ); /* power of 2 */ /*...*/ snd_pcm_sw_params_set_avail_min (playback_handle, sw_params, N) /* ... */ while(1) { err = snd_pcm_wait(playback_handle, 1000); assert(err >= 0); /* OK */ frames_to_deliver = snd_pcm_avail_update(playback_handle); assert(frames_to_deliver >= 0); /* OK */ /* this fails about every other cycle: */ assert(frames_to_deliver >= N); } E.g. with N = 2048, I'll typically get a stream that looks like 1996, 2048, 2048, 1990, 2048, 1999, 2048... Any ideas? -gabriel

15 years, 4 months

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Linux-audio-dev September 2010