10 Oct
2010
10 Oct
'10
11:19 a.m.
On 10/01/2010 09:20 PM, Niels Mayer wrote:
Would I be able to "transparently" use these
"S/MUX"d channels in a
linux DAW, by simply recording/playing-back a higher channel count per
track (e.g. 4 for a stereo track, 2 for a mono)?
yes, if it's just about acquisition and you don't intend to do any
processing with it. btw, each half of a smuxed stream should be a
reasonable 48k/24bit stream btw, which you could listen to, not noise.
Next question: to avoid the hack suggested above, is
there some kind
of ALSA plugin that would reconstitute/create synchronized pairs of
S/MUX data on the same soundcard into single 24/96 streams, both for
input and output? How is S/Mux handled in Linux& ALSA?
i'm not aware of any software implementation of smuxing, but i'd be
interested to hear more about it. the only times i've used smuxing was
with a focusrite pro26 and a rme hdsp, both of which seem to do it
either in hardware or at the driver level, so that the user doesn't get
to see how it's done.