Package: rakarrack
Version: 0.4.2-1
Severity: normal
Hi and thanks for maintaining rakarrack in Debian!
I am trying to use it with my electric guitar (connected to the sound
card mic-in through a DI box). From a hardware point of
view, the setup seemed to work, since, in the past, I managed to hear
the clean sound of the guitar coming out of my speakers.
To be frank, in the tests I performed today, I cannot even hear the
clean sound of the guitar, and I cannot understand why (which is
driving me crazy!); see also bug #523925, where several tests are
described related to the fmit tuner...
Anyway, while running rakarrack no effect seems to be applied, whatever
I set within the rakarrack GUI.
If I set high input and output amplification, I can only hear what seems
to be the result of the application of the selected effect to background
noise...
Let me explain my setup.
I have an Intel HD audio controller (which is integrated in my
ASUS P5B-VM motherboard):
$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 | grep Codec
Codec: Analog Devices AD1988
My alsamixer "Capture" settings are as follows:
Front Mic Boost 33<>33
Mic Boost 33<>33
S/PDIF 74<>74 ------
Capture 72<>72 CAPTUR
Capture 1 72<>72 CAPTUR
Capture 2 72<>72 CAPTUR
Input Source [Front Mic]
Input Source 1 [Line]
Input Source 2 [Mic]
I have jackd and libasound2-plugins installed and the following
redirection (to make ALSA applications work, even when they are
unaware of jackd):
$ cat ~/.asoundrc
# redirect the default ALSA device to JACK
pcm.!default
{
type plug
slave { pcm "jack" }
}
pcm.jack
{
type jack
playback_ports
{
0 alsa_pcm:playback_1
1 alsa_pcm:playback_2
}
capture_ports
{
0 alsa_pcm:capture_1
1 alsa_pcm:capture_2
}
}
My setup works correctly for audio "output" (I can listen to music
with audacious, watch videos with mplayer, hear sounds from games,
and so forth).
I am trying to get audio "input" to work...
I start rakarrack and qjackctl: after connecting both system capture
ports to both rakarrack in ports and after connecting both rakarrack
out ports to all the 8 system playback ports, I press the "Play"
button in qjackctl GUI (which says "Rolling").
I pluck the guitar strings, but I cannot hear any sound coming from
my speakers, and I cannot see any activity in rakarrack (besides
the amplification of background noise, as I said).
The "FX On" button is pressed (otherwise I wouldn't even hear the
background noise).
Help!
What's wrong with me and with my setup? :-(
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages rakarrack depends on:
ii jackd 0.118+svn3796-2 JACK Audio Connection Kit (server
ii libasound2 1.0.22-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfltk1.1 1.1.10-2 Fast Light Toolkit - shared librar
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library
ii libjack0 0.118+svn3796-2 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.8-1 X11 pixmap library
rakarrack recommends no packages.
rakarrack suggests no packages.
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