23 Apr
2003
23 Apr
'03
5:38 p.m.
Hi,
Sorry, but I'm tearing out my hair here! :-) I've read quite a lot
about this, but I can't seem to understand/find the answer.
I can record from the Line in of my Live Drive, but I would like to
record _just_ the audio coming in and not any other audio playing on the
system. I would like to hear the backing track though my head phones
and then record through the line in, but the recording always records
everything coming out of my speakers. Is this possible? If so what
mixer settings should I have?
Seeing lots of people producing good music with there SBLive is making
me jealous!! :-)
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Many thanks,
Pete
23 Apr
23 Apr
10:45 p.m.
Yes, I can't believe how ugly the SBLive mixing interface looks in all
the generic ALSA mixer programs. Zillions of cryptically labeled
controls, yuck. You want to make your card stop "capturing" the mix
input, and capture the Live Drive line in. I don't have the Live Drive,
so I capture regular "line". In "gamix", the mixer that has confused
me
slightly less than the others, I have to turn "AC 97 Capture" all the
way up, "AC 97 Playback" all the way down, find the box that says just
plain "Capture", set the choice menus in the box to "Line", make
sure
the little box is "on" (dark gray instead of light gray), and adjust the
volume sliders (still in the Capture box) to somewhere in the middle.
But I see there is a separate area for dealing with "Line / LiveDrive
Capture" so to record from there, who knows? Logically you would want to
turn off the Capture thing I use (light gray in the little square below
the volume sliders) and enable the LiveDrive Capture (dark gray in both
little squares above the other volume sliders). Confused? Me too!
On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 15:31, Pete Hamling wrote:
Hi,
Sorry, but I'm tearing out my hair here! :-) I've read quite a lot
about this, but I can't seem to understand/find the answer.
I can record from the Line in of my Live Drive, but I would like to
record _just_ the audio coming in and not any other audio playing on the
system. I would like to hear the backing track though my head phones
and then record through the line in, but the recording always records
everything coming out of my speakers. Is this possible? If so what
mixer settings should I have?
Seeing lots of people producing good music with there SBLive is making
me jealous!! :-)
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Many thanks,
Pete
--
sigmotto: Liberty is theft.
24 Apr
24 Apr
5:26 a.m.
Thanks for the help, much appreciated! I've managed to record just the
line in from the back of my SBLive without capturing other sources. Yay!
:-)
But I still cannot capture from the LiveDrive Line in. It seems if I
turn the "Capture" control off or set it to anything apart from "MIX"
I
cannot record anything. And if I set it to "MIX" I can record
everything!! ;-) If anyone else has can help me out with this it will
save me getting dusty when plugging things into the back of my PC! :-)
Thanks again,
Pete
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 01:35, Paul Perkins wrote:
Yes, I can't believe how ugly the SBLive mixing
interface looks in all
the generic ALSA mixer programs. Zillions of cryptically labeled
controls, yuck. You want to make your card stop "capturing" the mix
input, and capture the Live Drive line in. I don't have the Live Drive,
so I capture regular "line". In "gamix", the mixer that has confused
me
slightly less than the others, I have to turn "AC 97 Capture" all the
way up, "AC 97 Playback" all the way down, find the box that says just
plain "Capture", set the choice menus in the box to "Line", make
sure
the little box is "on" (dark gray instead of light gray), and adjust the
volume sliders (still in the Capture box) to somewhere in the middle.
But I see there is a separate area for dealing with "Line / LiveDrive
Capture" so to record from there, who knows? Logically you would want to
turn off the Capture thing I use (light gray in the little square below
the volume sliders) and enable the LiveDrive Capture (dark gray in both
little squares above the other volume sliders). Confused? Me too!
On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 15:31, Pete Hamling wrote:
Hi,
Sorry, but I'm tearing out my hair here! :-) I've read quite a lot
about this, but I can't seem to understand/find the answer.
I can record from the Line in of my Live Drive, but I would like to
record _just_ the audio coming in and not any other audio playing on the
system. I would like to hear the backing track though my head phones
and then record through the line in, but the recording always records
everything coming out of my speakers. Is this possible? If so what
mixer settings should I have?
Seeing lots of people producing good music with there SBLive is making
me jealous!! :-)
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Many thanks,
Pete
--
sigmotto: Liberty is theft.
7:22 a.m.
But I still cannot capture from the LiveDrive Line in.
It seems if I
turn the "Capture" control off or set it to anything apart from "MIX"
I
cannot record anything. And if I set it to "MIX" I can record
everything!!
This sounds as if it could be related to the problem with the Live Drive
referred to in the ALSA soundcard matrix.
Using the rear panel 1/8" input with a studio-quality adaptor cable would
probably be better for your analogue path than using the Live Drive anyway.
Cheers
Daniel
8:13 p.m.
hi,
On this matter, does anyone know if there's some way to clean this up?,
lots of controls i'm never gonna touch (don't have the live drive
either). Every time i have to start recording something had time swim
in the gamix,alsamixer mess. In Alsamixer you selects capture with space bar
on the input (line ) control you choose. This is, IMO, shorter.
I guess, to make setup for a rec session shorter, one has to do some scripting
whith amixer commands.
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Paul Perkins wrote:
Yes, I can't believe how ugly the SBLive mixing
interface looks in all
the generic ALSA mixer programs. Zillions of cryptically labeled
controls, yuck. You want to make your card stop "capturing" the mix
input, and capture the Live Drive line in. I don't have the Live Drive,
so I capture regular "line". In "gamix", the mixer that has confused
me
slightly less than the others, I have to turn "AC 97 Capture" all the
way up, "AC 97 Playback" all the way down, find the box that says just
plain "Capture", set the choice menus in the box to "Line", make
sure
the little box is "on" (dark gray instead of light gray), and adjust the
volume sliders (still in the Capture box) to somewhere in the middle.
But I see there is a separate area for dealing with "Line / LiveDrive
Capture" so to record from there, who knows? Logically you would want to
turn off the Capture thing I use (light gray in the little square below
the volume sliders) and enable the LiveDrive Capture (dark gray in both
little squares above the other volume sliders). Confused? Me too!
10:11 a.m.
On 23 Apr 2003 20:31:39 +0100
Pete Hamling <petehamling(a)zepler.org> wrote:
Hi,
Sorry, but I'm tearing out my hair here! :-) I've read quite a
lot about this, but I can't seem to understand/find the answer.
I can record from the Line in of my Live Drive, but I would like
to record _just_ the audio coming in and not any other audio
playing on the system. I would like to hear the backing track
though my head phones and then record through the line in, but the
recording always records everything coming out of my speakers. Is
this possible? If so what mixer settings should I have?
So, let's take a look.
If you toggle (e.g.in aumix) the record input to Line (see attached
file), so that it shows red instead of green to the left, it still
captures sound from all sources?
--
Alexandre Prokoudine
ALT Linux Documentation Team
JID: avp(a)altlinux.org
8:28 p.m.
It's just the Live Drive Line input I am having trouble with now (but as
Daniel pointed out this might be broken).
I can now successfully record from different sources without capturing
any other audio, by using the line in/mic in on the rear of the SB Live
card. Actually, I'm quite happy with the set up now. Thanks.
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 11:58, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
So, let's take a look.
If you toggle (e.g.in aumix) the record input to Line (see attached
file), so that it shows red instead of green to the left, it still
captures sound from all sources?
--
Alexandre Prokoudine
ALT Linux Documentation Team
JID: avp(a)altlinux.org
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