24 May
2008
24 May
'08
3:31 a.m.
On Fri, 23 May 2008 22:10:04 -0700
"Justin Smith" <noisesmith(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To celebrate my new full time job, and payday, I just
got a zoom h2.
It records four channels from its four microphones, runs on AA
batteries, and can be accessed as a hard drive or a sound card (sadly
only two mics at a time when a sound card). Excellent little machine
for the price.
My one problem is that alsa (either via amixer, alsamixer or
oss-emulation mixer via aumix) will not give me any mixer controls. Am
I stuck with using the silly buttons on the machine for all mixing,
when I use it as a sound card? How hard would it be to write a mixer
for it... is the problem a lack of developer time or an issue with the
device itself?
What kind of mixing controls do you need? If it's just simple stuff for
playback/working with alsa, it might be possible to use another layer,
like pulseaudio.
For jack, I think there is a pretty sophisticated mixer available. I
never used it myself, I think it is called jackmixer or something.
I don't know what kind of chip it uses, maybe you can use a mixer app
for other soundcards? (Envy24 control, ...)
Best Regards,
Philipp