Robert,
i've got an AI-3 and am very happy with it. i use it with a hammerfall light. the AI-3
doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles, but i just need a basic converter with high
aural quality. and, like you, i didn't want to go overboard on the $$$. if your needs
are similar, i think you'd like the AI-3.
patrick
> I'm looking to purchase a brand spankin' new HDSP 9652 Hammerfall
> and I need an external AD/DA to go along with it. I've looked at the AI3, which makes $$$ sense and i've looked at the ADI 8 Pro line, which makes features sense (huh?). Which converter would you all recommend? Is there anything good/bad i should know about the AI3/ADI 8 Pro DS?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> -Robert C
My usual way of creating a CD is to record to the hard disk,
edit in Broadcast 2000, "render list," and burn the resulting WAV
files to a CD.
Every time I do this, without exception, cdrecord prints out
this message after each track. I notice that when burning WAV
files people have sent to me that they've created under other
operating systems (i.e., not just Windoze), cdrecord doesn't give
that message.
I'd like to understand what's going on, and if it has any
ramifications I should be worried about.
Thanks.
Howard Sanner
flagstad(a)mindspring.com
hi,
i've got alsa from cvs (/proc/asound/version says 0.9.0rc6)
and iiwusynth from cvs (reported as 0.2.4 at startup).
I also tried iiwusynth 0.2.2 from tarball, with the same result.
What's happening: I've got a raw midi input device at
/dev/snd/midiC1D0 (/dev/midi01).
I've compiled iiwusynth OK (without readline)
and it can run fine with alsa's oss midi emulation:
$ iiwusynth -a alsa -m oss -M /dev/midi01
... and it responds to my keyboard just great.
Try to use ALSA and I get no joy:
$ iiwusynth -a alsa -m alsa -M /dev/amidi1 ~/Unshared/Sounds/soundfonts/drums/arap.SF2
iiwusynth: warning: Couldn't set high priority scheduling for the audio output
iiwusynth: warning: Failed to pin the sample data to RAM; swapping is possible.
ALSA lib rawmidi.c:280:(snd_rawmidi_open_noupdate) Unknown RawMidi /dev/amidi1
It doesn't seem to matter what I use for the -M argument... any ideas?
Is current iiwusynth broken wrt. current ALSA?
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
"Welcome to Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"
Anybody know exactly which wxWindows packages
are needed to compile freqtweak 0.4.5 on debian (testing / unstable)?
I'm now testing freqtweak from cvs to see if i get the same errors...
./configure seems fine, and
i got past the fftw requirement (needed sfftw-dev),
but now I'm getting nasty compile errors in the
wxwin stuff... like:
$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/pw/Downloads/Apps/Audio/freqtweak-0.4.5'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pw/Downloads/Apps/Audio/freqtweak-0.4.5/src'
c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/lib/wx/include/base-2.2 -D_REENTRANT -DNEWWX -I/usr/local/include -g -Wall -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fstrength-reduce -funroll-loops -fmove-all-movables -ffast-math -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -c FTapp.cpp
In file included from /usr/include/wx/laywin.h:4,
from FTmainwin.hpp:27,
from FTapp.cpp:45:
/usr/include/wx/generic/laywin.h:83: parse error before `&'
/usr/include/wx/generic/laywin.h:84: syntax error before `('
/usr/include/wx/generic/laywin.h:86: semicolon missing after declaration of `wxQueryLayoutInfoEvent'
(many following errors snipped)
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
"Welcome to Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"
On Monday, Dec 16, 2002, at 10:45AM, Mike Rawes <mike_rawes(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Yeah, I'm up for this. I'm not too familiar with making ebuilds, but it
>looks to be fairly straightforward. At the moment, I've just set up a
>hierarchy under /opt, where I manually (configure, make) compile +
>install stuff. The trouble with this is that not all packages give the
>option to specify a location (--foo-lib=DIR), and assumes stuff is
>installed in /usr (grrr :)
Alrighty then. I've started to ask questions on the gentoo-user alias about how best to deal with cvs ebuilds. Once there there are some answers i'll put together a webpage for the files.
I considered going down the /opt path ;-) but it just isn't the gentoo way!
j.
Hey,
I'm looking to purchase a brand spankin' new HDSP 9652 Hammerfall
and I need an external AD/DA to go along with it. I've looked at the AI3, which makes $$$ sense and i've looked at the ADI 8 Pro line, which makes features sense (huh?). Which converter would you all recommend? Is there anything good/bad i should know about the AI3/ADI 8 Pro DS?
Thanks a lot in advance!
-Robert C
Hi,
Yesterday i ended up created an ebuild to build jack from cvs - ardour
needed v0.41 and gentoo is still using the 0.34 release. Updating jack
broke alsaplayer (v0.99.72 is the latest in portage and the support for
jack v0.4+ is in 0.99.73 :-) ) and it looks like another cvs build is
in order...
How are others coping with this stuff? Is anyone interested in setting
up somewhere to share ebuilds, working together on getting them into
the official portage?
j.
-- -
I don't want knowledge, I want certainty.
- David Bowie
hi everyone:
i'm running on a PIII with kernel 2.4.18 and Alsa 0.9.0rc6 and a Hammerfall 9636 card.
Alsa has been working fine for the last year, or so it seems. recently a scsi CD burner
was installed. i have some recordings of live performances made with "arecord", version
0.9.0beta8a. they play back just fine, but when i tried to burn them to CD, they were low
by about 2 to 3 half steps.
Joerg Shilling suggested that Alsa was writing the wrong headers. so i upgraded to rc6
and on the first try on each of the old WAV files, "aplay" also played them too slowly.
however, on subsequent runs, everything was fine again. i don't understand this behaviour
at all.
someone on LAU suggested that since it was too low by about 2-3 half steps, data was being
recorded at 48000 but Alsa thought it was at 44100.
info in /proc/asound/hammerfall/rme9652:
------------snip-------------
.
.
Latency: 4096 samples (2 periods of 16384 bytes)
Hardware pointer (frames): 0
Passthru: no
Clock mode: autosync
Pref. sync source: ADAT1
IEC958 input: Coaxial
IEC958 output: Coaxial only
IEC958 quality: Consumer
IEC958 emphasis: off
IEC958 Dolby: off
IEC958 sample rate: error flag set
ADAT Sample rate: 44100Hz
.
.
---------snip-----------------
for months up until about an hour ago the ADAT sample rate read 48000. in that hour i
changed my .asoundrc from
-----------snip---------------
pcm.hammerfall { #"hammerfall" is the alias for "snd-rme9652" in /etc/modules.conf
type hw
card0
}
ctl.hammerfall {
type hw
card0
}
-----------snip---------------
to the following
-----------snip---------------
pcm.rme9652 { #changed from "hammerfall" to "rme9652" on 12.15.2002
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.rme9652 { #same as above comment
type hw
card 0
}
---------snip-----------------
after the .asoundrc change i recorded a fresh WAV and burned it to CD but with the same
problem -- too slow. also, with the new .asoundrc, version rc6 plays WAV's recorded with
the old .asoundrc and version rc6 a little too fast. i'm at a loss for new ideas to debug
this.
can anyone enlighten me about this, or does anyone know where i can download some
reference WAV files (for example, a middle C tone) to check whether the burning problem
might involve Alsa or whether it's something else in my setup?
any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
tia,
patrick
There was some talk of silent cooling earlier in the week. It reminded
that i need to quiet my new pentium 4 box. Does anyone have any
experience with Zalman? In particular, this:
http://www.zalman.co.kr/english/product/cnps5700d.htm
Seems they have "silent" power supplies... Comments?
j.
-- -
I don't want knowledge, I want certainty.
- David Bowie
