On Tuesday 11 April 2006 07:04 pm, Lance Blisters wrote: > I bought a Layla24 and Cardbus adaptor. Works beatifully with > ALSA/JACK/ARDOUR up to 8 channels. However, the soundcard presents the 8 > analog channels as device 0 and 8 digital channels as device 1. JACK will > only open one device at a time. So in order to record and play back 16 > channels with Ardour, I apparently need to create a virtual ALSA device > combining the two LAYLA subdevices. > > Which brings me back to a place I always find myself when working with new > sound gear - ALSA LIMBO, a dark claustrophobic space occupied only by > unidentified .asoundrc fragments, paved with device anomolies, mined with > disinformation bomblets, seen through the funhouse mirrors of fruitless > google sessions. Cascades of similar plugin types of indeterminate > direction, each encased in the next like a 12-step turducken, translated > through an inconsistent mix of multiple (equivalent?) syntaxes, with the > smallest deviation producing a cryptic failure. A breadcrumb trail of > trials and errors spirals back further than I can see, and the only sounds > I can hear over the queasy rumblings building in my stomach, is me > repeating to myself that OF COURSE it is possible, I can't be the ONLY > person to try to use all channels with JACK, and if I just dig through > another 10 pages of search results i'll surely find a .asoundrc which > solves the whole thing for me. > > And then I wake, throat hoarse, sticky with fever sweat, to apply ice to my > forehead and plaster to the fresh hole in my wall. And I beg of you, > someone, please, for the love of all that is holy, just give me the damn > answer so i can get on with my life. And not a "use the multi plugin" > answer, because THAT IS NO ANSWER, THAT IS ONLY A TAUNT. An actual, > complete .asoundrc which has actually worked in practice, with .ctl, mmap, > exclusivity, #channels, etc accounted for. The kind which saves me literal > hours of very literal frustration. > > Thanks in advance, > > -geoff
I hate when that happens!
