5 Jan
2004
5 Jan
'04
10:06 p.m.
Hi,
I am a fairly recent home user of Linux - I installed Mandrake 9.2 for
the first time successfully on one of my PCs last week. It includes an
M-Audio delta 66 soundcard, which I would like to use for recording.
The Mandrake installer detected the card and installed the Envy24 ./
ice1712 driver.
However, I am unable to do much with the card. I tried a CD player
application that came with mandrake - I can't recall the name right now
- and i played the CD, but the sound was very choppy, and the volume
extremely low through the SPDIF output. I had to turn my 100W amp all
the way up to hear anything ! Under normal circumstances that sound
level would be unbearable.
Is anyone else using this soundcard successfully under Linux ?
I would like to use it do some recordings and edits. I am also looking
for a good application to use with the card.
While I'm new to Linux, I am very experienced with audio - I have been
writing audio programs for DOS and OS/2 since 1989. And I may do so for
Linux as well, but first I need to get started as a user to see what
works and what does not. I am not really new to Linux as I have been
writing server code for it for years for my employer, but I never used
Linux on a desktop machine yet.
Thanks,
Julien
5 Jan
5 Jan
10:52 p.m.
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 22:06, Julien Pierre wrote:
However, I am unable to do much with the card. I tried
a CD player
application that came with mandrake - I can't recall the name right now
- and i played the CD, but the sound was very choppy, and the volume
extremely low through the SPDIF output. I had to turn my 100W amp all
the way up to hear anything ! Under normal circumstances that sound
level would be unbearable.
I'm using the Delta 44 on Mandrake 9.2, and it works perfectly.
Make sure you use envy24control right?
# urpmi envy24control
as the alsa mixer is incomplete for that card.
Is anyone else using this soundcard successfully under
Linux ?
Yeah, used it for the first time last week. Sound quality is SOOO much
better than a typical sound card.
I would like to use it do some recordings and edits. I
am also looking
for a good application to use with the card.
I've been using audacity because it's simpler, but it's oss based, so
there are complications. Can only get 2 channels working perfectly so
far. Make sure to tell audacity that your project is in 48k bps, since
the card seems to play at that rate no matter what audacity says, and
you'll get screwed up wav/mp3 headers otherwise.
Ardour also works fine for me, and is alsa-enabled, but it's a lot more
complicated and crashy.
# urpmi ardour jackit-realtime
should install everything you need. (reboot into the multimedia kernel
first)
I'd also suggest mounting /tmp as tmpfs (see the jackit website).
While I'm new to Linux, I am very experienced with
audio - I have been
writing audio programs for DOS and OS/2 since 1989. And I may do so for
Linux as well, but first I need to get started as a user to see what
works and what does not. I am not really new to Linux as I have been
writing server code for it for years for my employer, but I never used
Linux on a desktop machine yet.
You've chosen an excellent card and an excellent distro! :-)
Try tkeca, snd, sweep, dap, ecawave, freqtweak, glame, mhwaveedit,
rezound, SpiralLoops, terminatorX, wavesurfer... all good stuff. You
should be able to install any of them with urpmi. If not, just set up a
'contrib' repository first.
http://www.urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php
I packaged most of them myself. Let me know if you have any problems.
Trying to get things polished for Mandrake 10, due in February!
Austin
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Austin Acton
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeLinux Volunteer Developer, homepage: www.groundstate.ca
6 Jan
6 Jan
4:38 a.m.
I've been using audacity because it's simpler,
but it's oss based,
so there are complications. Can only get 2 channels working
perfectly so far.
You need Audacity version 1.1.3 or later for multichannel - I
recommend building wxGTK 2.4.0 from source rather than using the
Mandrake RPMS, which install a later version of wxGTK that the
Audacity developers do not recommend. Audacity 1.2.0-pre3 was the
latest release for Linux, I think.
It also helps multichannel performance if you set up a simple
.asoundrc file in your home directory, I've found. We've recorded
with up to 8 inputs on a Delta 1010 using Audacity.
Make sure to tell audacity that your project is
in 48k bps, since the card seems to play at that rate no matter
what audacity says, and you'll get screwed up wav/mp3 headers
otherwise.
I haven't experienced that with the Delta 1010, although with more
than 6 input channels the performance was better at 48KHz than
44.1KHz. 8 channels at 44.1KHz caused some sync problems between
tracks.
Cheers
Daniel
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