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[linux-audio-user] alsamixer and the audiophile 2496

by luis jure

ok, i guess you can tell me the truth now: does anybody really understand all those "items" appearing in alsamixer for the audiophile 2496 ? or am i the only ignorant? i only use the analog input and output, by the way. the card is simple enough, and for me it "just works", but i really have no idea about these: IEC958 --> you can switch between IEC958 I, Digital and H/W In from 0 to 7; what's all that supposed to mean? IEC958 Multi and IEC958 Multi 1 --> two sliders that don't do nothin' i can see/hear... IEC958 1 --> similar to the other one above, and equally mysterious. DAC and DAC 1 --> well, at least i understand those two... Deemphasis --> hmm... i don't understand this one either, but i don't care much for whatever it is. i think. H/W and H/W 1 --> switches between PCM Out0, H/W In 0 to 7, and IEC958 I; if i choose H/W In 0 i can monitor while recording but no playback, choosing PCM Out0 it's the opposite. H/W Multi and H/W Multi 1 --> sliders, no idea what. Multi to Multi 9 --> a series of sliders, also no idea. Multi Track Internal Clock --> switches between different clock rates, don't know what's its use. Multi Track Peak, Multi Track Rate Reset, etc --> another set of sliders of unknown nature. as you can see, alsamixer is mostly a complete and obscure mystery for me. could anyone explain what does all that mean? or point me to a document where it's well explained? what i would like to do, if possible, is: - being able to monitor both while recording and playback without having to change the mixer configuration - record (with arecord, for example) from soundcard output; that is, capture what's being reproduced. - control analog input volume while recording (i can only see playback volume). please excuse me that i'm being so ignorant and stupid, but i've been using linux for only six years, alsa for only five, and this card for only one year, so i'm still a newbie. best regards and thanks for your attention, lj --

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] midi filter to convert NRPN's to CC's

by Chris Pickett

Hi, I have a synthesizer whose knobs send out NRPN data. They only have a 12-bit range (0 - 4095), not the usual 14-bit range. I'd like to be able to turn one of these knobs, filter the NRPN data into CC data (range 0 - 127), assign it to some arbitrary CC, and then send it to either some running MIDI-capable software or out to my CC-accepting drum machine, with as low latency as possible. So far I've found Div's MIDI Utilities for Unix. Are these tools the most appropriate for the job? Or are there other more recent things for me to look at? It looks like I'd have to write some code to get what I want with Div's utils, so I just want to check I don't do something totally redundant. In windows, MIDI-Ox handled it fairly well, but I don't need anything so complex, just a filter is fine. http://www.sreal.com:8000/~div/midi-utilities-for-unix/ Cheers, Chris

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Quick question about envy24control and the Delta 66 soundcard.

by Luke Yelavich

Hi all Just wondering whether it is possible to change the inputs and outs to either -10, consumer, or +4 in envy24 control, like you can with the Windows delta control panel? Thanks Luke -- Luke Yelavich http://www.audioslack.com luke(a)audioslack.com

21 years, 5 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] edirol um-880 configuration help needed

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Chris Pickett wrote: > > Clemens Ladisch wrote: > >>CONFIG_USB_MIDI is not the ALSA driver but the old OSS driver. > >>You want to use CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO instead. > > > > Regardless of whether or not CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO is a module, I now > > only get: > > > > usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 > > > > in /var/log/messages. 'modprobe snd-usb-audio vid=0x0582 pid=0x0015' > > doesn't help the situation. 'amidi -l' only shows me my Crystal > > SoundFusion card. > > > >>The ALSA driver supports both driver modes. > > I tried switching the UM-880 back to the FPT mode, and it works now. I > don't know if that's a regression, but in any case I'll try out patches > for you if it's something you want to fix. The "generic driver mode" descriptors aren't fully compliant with the USB MIDI specification, because it doesn't have an AudioControl interface, which is mandatory. You can say that an AudioControl interface is meaningless here because the UM-880 has no audio function incorporated, only MIDI. That is true, but in this case the class-specific AC interface descriptor will only contain the header descriptor. Did you see a kernel/syslog complain about "cannot find HEADER" or something like that? The usb-midi OSS driver doesn't look for AC descriptor, so it can handle it. But as Clemens said, that driver is not supported by Rosegarden. Regards, Pedro

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] S/PDIF input on M-Audio Dio2448

by Anahata

Believe it or not, I've only just (bothered to) get ALSA working on my system (Debian Sarge snapshot a couple of months old) I have a M-Audio DiO 2448, and the primary reason for choosing it was for S/PDIF digital input. That worked with the OSS drivers (paid for...) - now how do I control the S/PDIF input with ALSA? The driver module is snd-cmipci. -- Anahata anahata(a)treewind.co.uk -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] edirol um-880 configuration help needed

by Chris Pickett

Hi Clemens (or others, if you can help), I am trying to get my Edirol UM-880 to work with Rosegarden-4.0.9.7 and alsa-1.0.4. This is a rackmount USB 8x8 MIDI interface. I have a gentoo-2.6.5-r1 kernel with USB support compiled in. ------------------ /usr/src/linux # grep -i midi .config CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=y # CONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI is not set CONFIG_USB_MIDI=y ------------------ The first thing I noticed is that it doesn't work with the default Edirol driver, about which the manual says: ------------------ FPT technology will be used to perform high-speed MIDI transfer. We recommend that you normally use this mode. FPT = Fast Processing Technology of MIDI Transmission -- this optimizes MIDI data processing by making efficient use of the USB bandwidth according to the amount of MIDI data being transferred. ------------------ I get the following in /var/log/messages when I plug in a USB cable with this driver enabled in the hardware: ------------------ usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 midi: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -5 ------------------ To change this, you have to follow the instructions in the manual to use the generic driver mode. Ok, fine. I'm guessing Edirol isn't likely to release specs for the fancy one, but I haven't gone about asking. Now /var/log/messages shows me: ------------------ usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 3 usb-midi: Found MIDISTREAMING on dev 0582:0015, iface 0 usb-midi: Found MIDIStreaming device corresponding to Release 1.00 of spec. usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x10 EMBEDDED usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x11 EMBEDDED usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x12 EMBEDDED usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x13 EMBEDDED usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x14 EMBEDDED usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x15 EMBEDDED usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x16 EMBEDDED usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x17 EMBEDDED usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x18 EMBEDDED usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x20 EXTERNAL usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x21 EXTERNAL usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x22 EXTERNAL usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x23 EXTERNAL usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x24 EXTERNAL usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x25 EXTERNAL usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x26 EXTERNAL usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x27 EXTERNAL usb-midi: Found IN Jack 0x28 EXTERNAL usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x30 EMBEDDED, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x31 EMBEDDED, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x32 EMBEDDED, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x33 EMBEDDED, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x34 EMBEDDED, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x35 EMBEDDED, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x36 EMBEDDED, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x37 EMBEDDED, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x38 EMBEDDED, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x40 EXTERNAL, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x41 EXTERNAL, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x42 EXTERNAL, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x43 EXTERNAL, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x44 EXTERNAL, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x45 EXTERNAL, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x46 EXTERNAL, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x47 EXTERNAL, 1 pins usb-midi: Found OUT Jack 0x48 EXTERNAL, 1 pins string descriptor 0 found (length = 4) usb-midi: langid(0) 0x0409 usb-midi: langid(match) 0x0409 usb-midi: fetchString(2) usb-midi: fetchString = 13 usbmidi: found [ EDIROL UM-880 ] (0x0582:0x0015), attached: usbmidi: /dev/midi01: in (ep:81 cid: 0 bufsiz:64) out (ep:01 cid: 0 bufsiz:64) usbmidi: /dev/midi02: in (ep:81 cid: 1 bufsiz:64) out (ep:01 cid: 1 bufsiz:64) usbmidi: /dev/midi03: in (ep:81 cid: 2 bufsiz:64) out (ep:01 cid: 2 bufsiz:64) usbmidi: /dev/midi04: in (ep:81 cid: 3 bufsiz:64) out (ep:01 cid: 3 bufsiz:64) ------------------ Which looks a lot more promising. However, when I start rosegardensequencer, it doesn't show up: ------------------ Rosegarden 4-0.9.7 - AlsaDriver - alsa-lib version 1.0.4 JackDriver::initialiseAudio - JACK server not running JackDriver::~JackDriver JackDriver::~JackDriver: terminating buss mixer JackDriver::~JackDriver: terminating instrument mixer JackDriver::~JackDriver: terminating file reader JackDriver::~JackDriver: terminating file writer JackDriver: deleting mixers etc JackDriver::~JackDriver exiting ALSA Client information: 62,0 - (Midi Through, Midi Through Port-0) (WRITE ONLY) [ctype 2, ptype 2, cap 99] 64,0 - (CS46XX - Rawmidi 0, CS46XX) (DUPLEX) [ctype 2, ptype 2, cap 127] 128,0 - (Rosegarden sequencer, Rosegarden) (WRITE ONLY) [ctype 1, ptype 1048576, cap 99] Creating device 0 in Play mode for connection 64:0 CS46XX (duplex) Default device name for this device is MIDI external device Creating device 1 in Record mode for connection 64:0 CS46XX (duplex) Default device name for this device is MIDI hardware input device Creating device 2 in Play mode for connection 128:0 Rosegarden (write) Default device name for this device is MIDI software device Creating device 3 in Play mode for connection 62:0 Midi Through Port-0 (write) Default device name for this device is MIDI output system device Current timer set to "system timer" Record port set to (64, 0) AlsaDriver::initialiseMidi - initialised MIDI subsystem rosegarden (sequencer): RosegardenSequencer - started OK ------------------ I think I'm expecting to see another DUPLEX device, perhaps numbered 65,0. If I disconnect the USB cable, there is no change in the rosegardensequencer messages. alsa-patch-bay doesn't show me the UM-880 either, and there is no change with or without the cable connected. Finally, '/etc/init.d/alsasound restart' doesn't fix things. So ... what am I missing here? I looked in various places but couldn't find any information about what I need to do. Cheers, Chris

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Realplay 8.0 and sfxload; life is strange

by Marv Smoak

On my system, I using Planet CCRMA vintage March 2003. Realplay version 8.0.3.421 and sfxload version 0.4.3; when I need to boot my system, I must follow the procedure below to get realplay to work when I load a soundfont to my sblive card. Today I had to re-discover this sequence for the N-th time so I wrote it down. I'm posting it here in hopes it will help someone; I don't understand why it works, but it does, on my system. How to get realplay to work after using sfxload to load a soundfont to a SB-Live card. (Assume you've done a reboot of system, logged in as a user to KDE.) 1-- Before using sfxload, start realplayer first. Connect to internet and open a location such as http://www.jazz.fm/liveg2.ra ; realplay plays the stream. 1.1-- I usually start AlsaPatchBay and AlsaMixer at this point; it doesn't seem to matter whether this is done at this stage or later. 2-- While realplay is playing the stream, load the soundfont; on my sys sfxload 4marv/soundfonts/FluidR3_20GM.SF2 On my sys, the stream must be playing. During the loading of the soundfont the stream playing stops and and realplay says "Buffering". After the font is loaded, hit the stop button on realplay and re-connect to the location. The stream will start playing again. After this sequence, I can quit out of realplay and restart is without getting the dread "cannot open the sound device..." message. If realplay is not up and actively playing a stream when sfxload loads the soundfont, realplay will not find the sound device. And my system must re-booted. Logging out and back in, does not work. The soundfont load does not survive the boot.

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Apple Lossless codec

by Florin Andrei

Anyone has any kind of information about the Apple Lossless codec? Any chance to get a Linux implementation? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

21 years, 5 months

RE: [linux-audio-user] Digital Audio Labs card

by Polashek, Matthew

That's unfortunate but par for the course for some manufactures. Is there an RME option that has s/pdif in/out only? Matthew Polashek > ---------- > From: Peter Lutek > Reply To: plutek(a)infinity.net;A list for linux audio users > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:38 AM > To: A list for linux audio users > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Digital Audio Labs card > > On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 11:18, Polashek, Matthew wrote: > > Anyone using any of these Digital Audio Lab cards with ALSA? Their > status > > is listed as unknown on the ALSA site. > > i've been in touch with the DAL people about this over the past few > years. they have no intention of releasing the necessary programming > data. > > don't hold your breath! i did for a few years, but finally just decided > to jump to RME -- i don't think it's going to happen. > > -p > > > > **************************************************************************** This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. ****************************************************************************

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: [a-users] Re: ["Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>] Linked your site from my music article

by Eric Dantan Rzewnicki

Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Greetings, > I just joined the list, so if you want to discuss my article here you > don't need to copy to me separately. > If you're thinking of translating my article, let me tell you some > statistics that may be encouraging. > The english version has been served to about 2000 unique hosts per day > for the past two and a half months. It ranks #1 at Google for the query .... > about one's opinions. > Unfortunately that forbids such derivative works as translations. I > tried to find a license that would suit me but would allow faithful > translations, but I couldn't find any, and I don't think there's really > any way one could be written. But I can grant separate permission to > anyone who wishes to translate, and I'm willing to hold joint copyright > with a translator. > I welcome your discussion. >-- >Michael D. Crawford >GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting >http://www.goingware.com >crawford(a)goingware.com Michael, Thank you for your article. If I can ever get myself to concentrate long enough to get my own site online I will be linking to yours. I've long felt that music should be something that everyone has the right to _do_ themselves. The experience of making sounds happen seems to me to be something everyone needs. So many people do not get this experience. My knowledge of history may be a bit spotty, but in general my understanding is that before the rise of the Music Business a far greater percentage of the population actually participated in music making fairly regularly rather than merely consuming entertaiment. Now it seems to me that most people in the general population are afraid, or can't even conceive, of making music themselves. The feeling I get is that the average person (amongst the general population -- not the average reader of this list :) ) is trained to think that if they can't sell millions of albums they might as well not bother. This is a horrible shame. My personal hope is that the internet and free software can help to give back to the individual the freedom to create and to enjoy the act of creating. The world will be a better place for it. Thank you again. You have stirred me up a bit, definitely for the better :) -Eric Rz.

21 years, 5 months

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