On: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 17:47:39 -0500,
Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> 1) I understand now that there is no mixer. Yet, I am a bit baffled
> >> how then d oes ardour (for instance) control this app's output?
> >> Couldn't there be a some kind of generic mixer app derrived from
> >> the way Ardour addresses volume issue in this card? Could it be
> >> that the app only attenuates the signal sent to the output channel
> >> while the channel volume always stays constant?
>
> > yes, ardour attenuates its output signals. there is no channel volume
> > control on the hammerfall.
>
> i just wanted to add that *every* audio application i know works this
> way. i have never seen an audio app that generates an audio data
> stream and uses the h/w mixer to control volume. why make a system
> call when you just do a multiply ? :))
Also you would often affect other applications, too, many hardware
mixer are slow, generate blobs and clicks into the signal and have
only a few bits of _dynamic range_ (4 bits?).
> --p
k33p h4ck1n6
René
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