Hi
A friend of mine has a birthday comming up. His wife asked me for
advice, because she'd like to treat him with a sound card. So I'm hoping
for some recomendations for a soundcard that:
1) works with linux
2) has (at least) two 48V xlr mic inputs
3) has (at least) two line in (could be shared with the mic ins)
4) has headphones out, with some good monitor features (like my FA66)
I was looking at the roland quad-capture, what has the right price tag,
but that's doesn't seem to be working with linux, or?
--
Atte
http://atte.dkhttp://modlys.dk
Hi :)
I guess everybody knows that Neutrik cable relief becomes bad, when the
connectors get old, today I noticed that some of my very old Neutrik are
shattered, I guess they are > 15 years old. The cables are still ok,
perhaps affected by oxygen, but the sound still is ok (maybe not for
every usage).
For new cables I've got some Rean connectors that seems to be good too,
but without plastic that could break.
I've got several no name connectors, but the 6.3 jacks of those
elCheapos sometimes need to be 'semi-plugged' to get a connection and
those XLRs wiggel, very good for hand-held microphones. Some connectors
melt away, even when the iron (!from a soldering station!) is 50 cm away
from the connectors. At home I just use 2 soldering irons, one with
minimal Watt and another to solder ground to e.g. pots, if the minimal
Watt iron shouldn't be able to do it.
Can anybody recommend a vendor for 6.3 jacks and XLR connectors?
I know große Tuchel connectors older than me, that are still ok, just
the cables needed to be replaced.
At the moment I tend to use Rean connectors in the future. Has anybody
experiences with this connectors?
Throwaway society :(.
Regards,
Ralf
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"Reichtum ist die Kotze des Glücks." (Diogenes von Sinope)
In English it might be: "Abundance is the vomit of luckiness."
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xjadeo is a video player that synchronizes to an external time-source.
http://xjadeo.sf.net/
After half a year of being stuck at release-candidate-7 the 0.6.0 went
out quietly last week.
version 0.6.1 - released today - fixes a small bug (russian and greek
translations were not installed), adds JACK-Session Support to xjadeo
[1] and makes use of JACK's new(er) latency compensation API.
As a reminder: version 0.6.0 introduced support for win32, features a
complete manual rewrite/overhaul, includes long overdue QT3->QT4 port of
the GUI, adds support for parsing LTC timecode from audio, switches to
more user-friendly default settings and support for newer versions of
ffmpeg/libav* amongst many other small details (see the changelog).
Thanks to Alessio Treglia (debian packaging, bug reports), Alexandre
Prokoudine (testing, bug reports, Russian translation), Geoff Beasley
(testing and Manual contributions), Michales Michaloudes (Greek
translation) and Natanael Olaiz (bug squashing).
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[1] More on JACK-Session support:
The [win32 and OSX] binaries available from sf.net do _not_ include
JACK-Session support, yet. On GNU/Linux (or self-compiled binaries for
other OS) the complete state of xjadeo is saved for each session, but
the optional GUI (qjadeo) is not restored.
However, [re-]launching the GUI will [re-]attach it to an already
running xjadeo instance.
Known issue: If multiple instances of xjadeo are running, it is only
possible to re-attach to all of them by setting the xjadeo session-ID
using the XJREMOTE environment variable _before_ launching the qjadeo
remote-control GUI.
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Hello all
I'm trying to use qtractor as just a midi file player to
pump midi data into SuperCollider. I've been given a MIDI
file (generated by Finale I'm told) that when imported
into qtractor generates 18 tracks. The last three of these
re-use channels that have already been used by other tracks,
so I want to send these out via a separate MIDI port. How
can this be done ? Currently all data goes out via a port
called 'Master' and I've found no way to create another
one.
TIA,
Ciao,
--
FA
Hi folks,
I'm trying to build an audio logger, that can record from six different
sources to separate files. I've been using the program rotter, and I
thought it was working but have discovered that jackd crashed and recording
was interrupted. Unfortunately this was not reflected by qjackctl, which is
what I use to launch jackd. The qjackctl display showed that jackd was
running, right down to the flashing "RT", but when I tried to launch
meterbridge it complained that the jack server was not running. The
instances of rotter that I launched were still running, but were making
files of just a few bytes, with no audio in them. Is this a bug in
qjackctl? I am using Arch, on a Pentium 4, and using a firewire interface
(Edirol FA-101).
-Steiny
(415)819-2009
I listen to music with mpd and send the audio straight to my USB DAC like this:
audio_output {
type "alsa"
name "Wavelength Proton"
device "hw:0,0"
}
It sounds great, a lot better than letting dmix resample to any rate I
have tried, even with libsamplerate's best algorithm. I've tried
doing the same thing with mplayer:
mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0.0 -format s24le video.mkv
but the result is a somewhat muddy sound, especially with Blu-Rays.
It sounds like dmix has gotten involved. Last night I tested mplayer,
gmplayer, and vlc with The Princess Bride on Blu-ray. The sound was
muddy with mplayer and vlc. gmplayer sounded crisp and clear but the
dialog was missing, I could only hear the movie's soundtrack. After
that I realized the 6-channel movie audio must be downmixed for my
2-channel DAC which must be where the sound is being fouled up. Does
anyone have any suggestions? I like to leave the digital audio
untouched but I suppose 6 channels need to be downmixed to 2 channels
digitally.
- Grant
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:25:53 +0200
> From: Philipp ?berbacher <hollunder(a)lavabit.com>
> Subject: Re: [LAU] Connectors
> To: linux-audio-user <linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org>
> Message-ID: <1310375983-sup-8104@eris>
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>
> Excerpts from Ricardus Vincente's message of 2011-07-10 16:52:27 +0200:
> > On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 17:27 +0300, Moshe Werner wrote:
> > > +1 on Neutrik, at least for XLR. For TRS 1/4" i also use Rean, el
> > > cheapo but still reliable.
> > >
> > > Moshe
> >
> > The best TRS and TS connectors without question are Neutrik NP3C's, and
> > NP2C's.
> >
> > I actually used to work at a company that made cabling for pro audio,
> > and had opportunity to try all of the connectors out there. When it
> > comes to XLRs there may be some difference of opinion, but with 1/4 inch
> > connectors, there is only one. :-)
>
> Really? Yamaha doesn't seem to test with those then. I soldered TRS to
> two TS connectors to be able to record my e-piano through its headphone
> out. The TRS just doesn't fit, it seems to be too small, I can't get a
> proper connection. The TRS of my old AKG headphones seems to fit
> perfectly.
>
> Philipp
1. We should open a Wiki regarding to connectors.
2. I'm using old AKG K 240 DF, yes, they aren't as good as modern
headphones (regarding to the sound quality), but they don't get broken
when they fall aground, so OTOH they are better than modern headphones.
Since I'm 16 years old I had several headphones, today I'm 44 years old,
the only headphone that didn't break from the age of 16 until now, is
the AKG 240 DF, I just had to change the cables and connector several
times and one time I needed to change the thingies that touch the ears,
but the 'speakers never get broken', even children were not able to kill
those headphones.
3. Regarding to your 'request'. You need to semi-connect bad
connectors ;). Btw. it's very unusual that Neutrik fails. I'm with you,
since at home I know this issue too. Ugly :(.
6.3 jacks are a PITA. I very often had to play guitar in a position,
that makes me look like Quasimodo, to keep the connection :D.
I'm not a fan of Neutrik, the reason to start this thread, but at least
Neutrik were the best connectors I ever used until today.
I suspect 6.3 jacks being bad in general.
David Baron wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 Tamuz 5771 14:27:10 you wrote:
> > David Baron wrote:
> > > The Lexicon has no mixer control available to alsamixer.
> >
> > Maybe it has controls that are available only with some vendor-specific
> > control panel.
>
> On windows, both devices have this. On linux, however ...
It might be possible to reverse engineer the mixer protocol by running
the Windows software in a virtual machine and using Linux's usbmon.
> I will definitely need a stronger signal from the lexicon line out. Can a
> mixer control be "created" in software in .asoundrc or such?
That would introduce clipping.
Regards,
Clemens
David Baron wrote:
> > Is what you get the left or the right channel or a mix?
>
> I believe it is the left.
This would indicate that the codec copies the left channel to both
output channels, which would be an unusual thing to do. Might there be
a problem with the connector or the cable?
Please show the output of "amixer contents".
> The Lexicon has no mixer control available to alsamixer.
Maybe it has controls that are available only with some vendor-specific
control panel.
> BTW, I have loads of alsarc type stuff in /usr/share/alsa/cards. Are these
> being used or must they explcitely be referred to in some file, preferably in
> /etc/ rather than a user's alsarc.
They are used automatically by the default devices.
Regards,
Clemens
