Re: AW: [Alsa-devel] general audio card Q

2002-07-31 Thread daniel sheltraw
Paul Thanks for your reply and the education. My main reason behind asking this question is that I am using the RME PST card presently to do CPU controlled transfer of data to the memory mapped buffers in those cards. I am interested in using the CPU to do the transfer since I have heard that

Re: [Alsa-devel] Quick SBLive/AWE32 synth question

2002-07-31 Thread Taupter
Richard Bown wrote: Lazy question - without searching through bug database or getting latest ALSA CVS (0.9.0 beta12) is there any history or known bug when repeatedly playing the a note of the same pitch through the SBLive or AWE32 onboard synth? Given 4 crotchets in a bar playing through

[Alsa-devel] [Alsa-devel][Patch] usbmidi fixes

2002-07-31 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Below is the final version of my changes to usbmidi.c. I used the opportunity to make some further fixes. These changes are desirable even if (apparently) they don't fix Martin's problem. - enlarged vendor/device name strings - fixed buffer overflow for card-shortname - added error messages

Re: [Alsa-devel] my first usb-midi experiment ends with segmentationfault

2002-07-31 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Martin Langer wrote: Thanks for all patches, but I don't found an error in the log-files. The last line is/was always the detection, which seems to work fine (see above). I'm still missing a client in /proc/asound/seq/clients, so the driver never reaches the port creation and I have no

[Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa-devel][Patch] usbmidi fixes

2002-07-31 Thread Martin Langer
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:02:09PM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: These changes are desirable even if (apparently) they don't fix Martin's problem. The buffer overflow is fixed It looks like totally fixed! I do some more tests this evening. Maybe I find something else;-) So far:

AW: [Alsa-devel] general audio card Q

2002-07-31 Thread Karsten Wiese
Paul wrote: cards that do not use DMA should generally be considered inferior because of the extra CPU cycles they force on the host system. not generally. i.e. the pinnacle/fiji way is to map a piece of memory into the pc's memory space. thus an application using alsa-mmap can write (or

[Alsa-devel] sblive mixer (was: guitar + sblive + ardour + ladspa effects)

2002-07-31 Thread Bob Ham
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 22:25, Bob Ham wrote: On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 21:53, Paul Davis wrote: you will also probably want to turn down the line-in level, so that the direct feed is not audible. that is also an sblive issue. It's, unfortunately, the only issue :/ I want to capture the

Re: AW: [Alsa-devel] general audio card Q

2002-07-31 Thread Paul Davis
Paul wrote: cards that do not use DMA should generally be considered inferior because of the extra CPU cycles they force on the host system. not generally. i.e. the pinnacle/fiji way is to map a piece of memory into the pc's memory space. thus an application using alsa-mmap can write (or

Re: AW: [Alsa-devel] general audio card Q

2002-07-31 Thread Paul Davis
Thanks for your reply and the education. My main reason behind asking this question is that I am using the RME PST card presently to do CPU controlled transfer of data to the memory mapped buffers in those cards. I am interested in using the CPU to do the transfer since I have heard that DMA or

Re: [Alsa-devel] Quick SBLive/AWE32 synth question

2002-07-31 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:24:02 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: Lazy question - without searching through bug database or getting latest ALSA CVS (0.9.0 beta12) is there any history or known bug when repeatedly playing the a note of the same pitch through the SBLive or AWE32 onboard synth? can you

Re: [Alsa-devel] is there a roadmap for alsa-0.9.0 ?

2002-07-31 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:27:12 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote: all the question is in the $subject. only Jaroslav knows :) i want to kwnow the release date of next rc and/of the 0.9.0 final since we (mandrakesoft) are going to release our 9.0 distribution in september (and so're going to

Re: [Alsa-devel] [Alsa-devel][Patch] usbmidi fixes

2002-07-31 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:02:09 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Below is the final version of my changes to usbmidi.c. I used the opportunity to make some further fixes. These changes are desirable even if (apparently) they don't fix Martin's problem. - enlarged vendor/device name

Re: [Alsa-devel] guitar + sblive + ardour + ladspa effects

2002-07-31 Thread Bob Ham
On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 15:52, Takashi Iwai wrote: on emu10k1, the signals from ac97 are routed to the capture fifo and then you can record them. in addition, you can route other sources and mix them to this capture fifo. the switch shown above does this. if these switches are on, then the

Re: [Alsa-devel] Quick SBLive/AWE32 synth question

2002-07-31 Thread Richard Bown
Takashi Iwai wrote: can you check whether this happens on SB Live only or both on SB Live and AWE? Chris and I are both experiencing it - I've got an SBLive and he's the AWE32. All of us (including Taupter who's the only other one to report this problem so far on this list) are using

[Alsa-devel] Re: Multiple PCM files

2002-07-31 Thread Nick French
Exactly. I would prefer the second as if I needed to add a third, 4th its takes no effort and I don't reinvent the wheel as they say. Does alsa support 2 or is this just JACK's. The mathematics may be simple for 1 but why should it be done over and over again. An API is meant to take away

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: Multiple PCM files

2002-07-31 Thread Paul Davis
Exactly. I would prefer the second as if I needed to add a third, 4th its takes no effort and I don't reinvent the wheel as they say. Does alsa support 2 or is this just JACK's. No, ALSA does not support it *in general*. Some interfaces will work this way, some will not. In theory, the ALSA

Re: [Alsa-devel] Quick SBLive/AWE32 synth question

2002-07-31 Thread Taupter
Richard Bown wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: can you check whether this happens on SB Live only or both on SB Live and AWE? I'm trying to reproduce the problem with another sequencer but to tell the truth I'm having a problem finding one that does on-board ALSA synths too. try noteedit.

Re: [Alsa-devel] More CS4630, secondary CODEC output.

2002-07-31 Thread Peter Heatwole
On 2002.07.27 00:02 Benny Sjostrand wrote: And to those with Santa Cruz cards, after my first (quick) test the rear channel doesn't seem to work... yet. Well, you dont seems to any luck ... no SPDIF, no rear sound -:( I just recalled something that may help with this problem.

Re: [Alsa-devel] More CS4630 improvements, finally multi PCM channelsupport

2002-07-31 Thread Benny Sjostrand
Hi Again! It did not take long time before i found yet another bug in my code, related to the PCM multichannel stuff. If you are playing various PCM channels and repently got a pure sinus signal instead (of whatever you was playing). No pain, no gain, ... Anyone that have downloaded my