[linux-audio-user] Good mixer for Delta 1010LT...

[lee]

Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:13:08PM -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 13:27, lee wrote:
>>
>>>derek holzer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Russell Hanaghan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Is there anything out there other than the regular Alsamixergui or Gnome
>>>>>alsa-mixer that has some flexibility here?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Try envy24control. It's in alsa-tools. It's the only one that lets you 
>>>>access all the controls of the soundcard.
>>>
>>>The one thing that threw me off (and I believe this qualifies as a bug 
>>>or perhaps confusing feature) is the digital mixer for all the channels 
>>>gives two faders per channel. So if you raise both faders on channel 
>>>one, it will send the same signal to both speakers. If you raise both 
>>>faders on channel two, it will do the same, effectively adding the two 
>>>signals together giving an output level twice as loud as what's actually 
>>>getting sent to the mixer.
>>>
>>
>>That's a feature.  It just takes some getting used to.  Normally I raise
>>left on one channel and right on another.  This allows you to mix some
>>left into right and right into left or swap left and right.
> 
> 
> I agree that it's a feature, but IMHO the UI is less than ideal.
> I think I'd prefer a single slider and some kind of pan widget.
> 
This feature makes the "l+r gang" button on each channel useless, since 
the way I have always used analog mixers for stereo tracks is to gang 
channel one and channel two, each paned hard left and right so I can 
control stereo volume with one slider. As it is now I have to raise two 
sliders for stereo tracks, which would work alright with a physical 
mixing desk but I only have one mouse pointer.

-lee