Hi
I'm getting annoyed that every time I restart the machine (or possibly
just ALSA) I need to reconfigure my mixer settings. (especially for my
delta 66 as I like to have the adc, dac settings setup so that the
meters on the computer match those of my mixing desk and hardware
compressors.. unity gain should be the same everywhere)
I'm sure this is just a matter of having the right SysV init script. My
confusion is that Mandrake has 3 scripts for sound.. it has alsa,
alsasound and sound.
Does anyone know which is the right one to be using to ensure that my
mixer settings are saved?
cheers
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Allan Klinbail <allank(a)labyrinth.net.au>
Greetings:
I'd like to employ dmix on my laptop but I need to know a few things
before doing so. The first thing concerns my assumptions: Am I correct
in understanding that dmix will perform as a "virtual hardware mixer" a
la the SBLive on my desktop machine ? My laptop is an HP Omnibook 4150,
it's very nice but its sound chip is a CS4232 and is not capable of
hardware mixing like the SBLive. It would be nice if dmix would let me
play with more than one audio app at a time.
If my first assumption is correct, how do I invoke and use dmix ?
Should it be in a startup file somewhere or should it be launched from
the command-line ? Given that my laptop's CPU is only a PII 366 what
kind of performance can I expect ? Finally, how do I control the volume
for each app playing, i.e., is there a mixer that recognizes dmix ?
I'm curious as to how people are using dmix and what are their
opinions about it, so fire away...
Best regards,
== Dave Phillips
The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org
Well, in that respect, can you clear up something for me about your
.asoundrc file? I am not that familiar with ALSA's internals, so perhaps
this is a silly question, but here goes..
The .asoundrc comments say that quattro1 is pcm0, but what exactly is pcm0?
Is that outputs 1 and 2 viewed as a stereo card? I also don't really
understand what all the other things are for, like quattro, q4, and q4b or
how I could do practical things like record or play on one specific
in/ouptut. Would you consider rewriting your comments in the file so they
are more understandable to those not familiar with the intricacies of
asoundrc and low level alsa stuff? It would be very helpful. Some practical
hints along these lines would be great:
"quattro1 is the physical input 1 and 2 and output 1 and 2 working as one
stereo device. It has a maximum samplerate of foo."
"To record or play a mono channel on a specific input/output using (for
example) arecord, do 'bar'"
..and something similar to explain the differences between the q4, q4b and
quattro entries. It would be great if you would want to do this, because it
would save people the time of having to grok the whole .asoundrc syntax
themselves.
Thank you for writing the thing in the first place by the way!! :-)
>From: Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>
>Reply-To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
>To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
>Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Quattro: part two of mail :-/
>Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:14:28 +0900
>
>Denis de Leeuw Duarte wrote:
>>..sorry, I just sent half an e-mail by accident.
>>
>>I was about to describe how I tried recording with my quattro:
>>
>> arecord -d quattro1 -r 44100 -c 1 -f S16_LE test.wav
>> arecord -d quattro1 -r 48000 -c 1 -f S16_LE test.wav
>> arecord -d quattro1 -r 48000 -c 2 -f S24_LE test.wav
>>
>>..and a few others. The sound is very much like it was sampled at a very
>>low samplerate and/or bitrate. Can someone paste me a known good arecord
>>line for the quattro, or does anyone know about this problem?
>>
>
>I've been unable to record throught e inputs 1/2 for a couple of months
>now. 3,4 work perfectly though.
>
>
>--
>Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd.
>Http://www.boosthardware.com
>Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide
>========================================
>
>Being on stage with the band in front of crowds shouting, "Get off! No! We
>want normal music!", I think that was more like acting than anything I've
>ever done.
>
>Goldie, 8 Nov, 2002
>The Scotsman
>
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..sorry, I just sent half an e-mail by accident.
I was about to describe how I tried recording with my quattro:
arecord -d quattro1 -r 44100 -c 1 -f S16_LE test.wav
arecord -d quattro1 -r 48000 -c 1 -f S16_LE test.wav
arecord -d quattro1 -r 48000 -c 2 -f S24_LE test.wav
..and a few others. The sound is very much like it was sampled at a very low
samplerate and/or bitrate. Can someone paste me a known good arecord line
for the quattro, or does anyone know about this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Denis de Leeuw Duarte
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Hello,
I've been successfully playing sound through my quattro for a short while,
but today when I tried to record, I found out that is is very noisy. It
sounds a bit as if the sound is sampled at too low a bitrate. I can't
imagine this is actually the case, so I'm probably doing something silly.
Here's what I did:
- I have Patrick Shirkey's .asoundrc.
- I stuck a (good) SM47 mic into input number one.
- I recorded like this:
arecord
arecord -d quattro1 -r 48000 -c 2 -f S24_LE test.wav
arecoarecord -d quattro1 -r 48000 -c 2 -f S24_LE test.wav
rd -d quattro1 -r 48000 -c 2 -f S24_LE test.wav
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Hi!
new release ...horgand-092
Program is released GNU/GPL version 2.
Horgand is a organ, Jack capable and recognizes MIDI Program Change (1-32).
Horgand is tested on a PIII 966 (Debian Sid ) and PII 300 (Gentoo).
Changes in 0.92
----------------------
-Added Reverb at this moment only presets available.
-All the sliders and dials widget reponse in realtime.
-Solved bug in keyboard level scaling, that reduced noises,
unfortunatelly sound changes a little bit.
-Small look changes and other minor bugs solved.
REQUERIMENTS:
* FAST COMPUTER
* LINUX
* ALSA
* JACK
* FLTK 1.1
Web Page :
http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/
Josep
i'm new to pro-audio world and i need some advice about
how to setup a studio.
i got my PC setup with an RME HDSP-9652 + SPDIF A/D D/A converter.
Ardour works great. i'm planning to purchase a FocusRite
OctoPre/ADAT and a bunch of microphones.
i think i need speakers too.
Is there anything like digital speakers or digital amps which
can accept ADAT directly from my linux box and turn it into
sound? Or do i need to convert ADAT to analogue and plug
that into a conventional amp/speaker system?
Considering how much care i'm taking to record sound digitally,
without noise, it seems like i should also take care that
the speakers can actually playback my recordings without
too much distortion.
Anyone have any recommendations?
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Victory to the Divine Mother!! after all,
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