[Alsa-devel] Cannot Record with ALSA and emu10k1

2002-05-26 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo Jaroslav, I wanted to copy my movies from casette to mpeg, and so i bought a television card and intended to record movies in linux. For recording movies you also need sound On my system there is ALSA with oss emulation. I connected the audio to line in. The line in signal goes through to

[Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Mp3 File Decoder

2002-02-25 Thread Guenther Sohler
This might not be 100% alsa related but not out of topic Until now I use Xaudio for my application xgmc. I want to get rid of it because *It seems very out of date *it when decoding it outputs much 0's at at the very first output. I dont want this. I immediately want data. *It seems that the g

Re: [Alsa-devel] DSP code for MIDI Reverb

2002-02-22 Thread Guenther Sohler
hallo jaroslaw, > No, you don't understand this. The wavetable engine sends to reverb and > chorus buses samples attenuated as specified in MIDI messages as input for > the reverb and chorus effects. These samples HAVE NOT the effects > applied at all. It must be implemented in the DSP engine befo

Re: [Alsa-devel] silent midi in audixy

2002-02-22 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo Jaroslaw, I think just by now I understand things better. I thought the emu10k1 was used on the sb live card and on the audixy card. But in fact the audixy chip is the next generation of the emu10k1. emu10k1 is used in sblive whereas the audixy chip is used in the creative audixy Is this ri

Re: [Alsa-devel] DSP code for MIDI Reverb

2002-02-22 Thread Guenther Sohler
> There are signal paths inside EMU10K1 and EMU10K2 called FX buses. The > samples from MIDI wavetable engine go through two FX buses (left and > right) and samples for reverb and chorus go through extra FX buses, so > the signal is not mixed. Check for FX buses in emu10k1.h: > >#define FXBUS_MID

Re: [Alsa-devel] silent midi in audixy

2002-02-22 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo Jaroslaw, Since both PCM and wavetable use the same engine, the > volumes must be at least at the (almost) same level. (MIDI volume may > be lower than PCM due to envelope, panning, etc.) panning should not take effect, because i have panning centered. > Anyway, yesterday I commited smal

[Alsa-devel] DSP code for MIDI Reverb

2002-02-22 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo Group, I was told, that the DSP code of the fx8010 needs to be upgraded to be able to have the reverb effect available in midi(Controller 0x5b) I cannot imagine how this could work because then the reverb would be applied to all the notes. But in Midi its possible to have reverb on single n

Re: [Alsa-devel] silent midi in audixy

2002-02-21 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo Jaroslav, Now I have found a solution for my silent midi problem. Therefore I updated the dsp code in alsa-kernel/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c I added a slider called "Music Amplification" which is an integer between 0 and 16(in my box it is 100 in the mean time). Now Midi's volume is ok. I'll send

[Alsa-devel] silent midi in audixy

2002-02-20 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo Jaroslaw, Yesterday I tried to load the soundfonts to load louder. 100% instead of 70% does not make much difference. Then I tried to amplify the samples itself. After some time i knew how to do this. But I realized, that the samples have already been in the range from -32768 to 32767(optim

Re: [Alsa-devel] A volume my mother would have liked ;-)

2002-02-19 Thread Guenther Sohler
und Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 10, dma 1 > > Audio devices: > 0: DSP v4.2 (DUPLEX) > > Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG > > Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG > > Timers: > 7: system timer > > Mixers: > 0: mixer00 > > If other info/dumps are needed, just ask. > > ___

Re: [Alsa-devel] Mixer Problem

2002-02-19 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo Takashi, I am trying to understand the internals of my audixy card, but it is quite hard for me, because i am a newbie to the audixy, and i am a newbie to soundcard internals too. I have been brosing through the source of the alsa driver to understand things, but it goes very slowly. I hav

[Alsa-devel] Mixer Problem

2002-02-19 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo List, I have a problem with my mixer in the creative audixy card. Even If I turn the slider of "Music" to maximum, the wavetable midi is still far too silent. much more silent than playing pcm output. But pcm output can also be adjusted when using slider "Wave" But apart "Wave" and "Music"

RE: [Alsa-devel] Sequencer events not arriving guaranteed

2002-02-19 Thread Guenther Sohler
Thank you very much for your help, Jaroslav, I always appreciate your help regards guenther On 19-Feb-02 Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Guenther Sohler wrote: > >> Does that mean, i have to do following: >> >> 1.) open sequencer >> 2.) cre

RE: [Alsa-devel] Sequencer events not arriving guaranteed

2002-02-19 Thread Guenther Sohler
, which are not neccessary ? On 19-Feb-02 Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Guenther Sohler wrote: > >> >> On 18-Feb-02 Guenther Sohler wrote: >> > Hello ALSA Gang, >> > >> > In my system i have primarily two important alsa ports for me

RE: [Alsa-devel] Sequencer events not arriving guaranteed

2002-02-18 Thread Guenther Sohler
On 18-Feb-02 Guenther Sohler wrote: > Hello ALSA Gang, > > In my system i have primarily two important alsa ports for me > > 64:0 is the external midi keyboard > 65:0 is the wavetable synth of my creative audixy > > I have written following code: > >

[Alsa-devel] Problem with mixer settings with alsa and creative audixy

2002-02-18 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo gang, I have a problem with my mixer settings when listening to the sequencer(midi) in my box. It is far to silent. I have to set my external amplifier to maximum amplification to be able to hear the tunes in an normal loudness while hearing the noise quite easy. When I play pcm data with t

[Alsa-devel] Sequencer events not arriving guaranteed

2002-02-18 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hello ALSA Gang, In my system i have primarily two important alsa ports for me 64:0 is the external midi keyboard 65:0 is the wavetable synth of my creative audixy I have written following code: #include #include #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char

Re: [Alsa-devel] Receiving Sequencer Events

2002-02-17 Thread Guenther Sohler
Thank you very much. I'll implement it like that. rds guenther On 17-Feb-02 Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Guenther Sohler wrote: > >> Hallo List, >> >> I want to receive midi events from my external midi keyboard. >> >> Therefore I t

[Alsa-devel] Receiving Sequencer Events

2002-02-17 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo List, I want to receive midi events from my external midi keyboard. Therefore I tried the seq decoder which comes with the alsa package. This application creates a port and when I connect the midi port to this listener ports, i can see the events coming from the keyboard. That means, If i

RE: [Alsa-devel] PCM frames already played

2002-02-17 Thread Guenther Sohler
still waiting to be written (from alsa, i.e. How many > frames are still in the sound cards buffer waiting to be output.) > > Cheers > James > > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guenther >&

[Alsa-devel] PCM frames already played

2002-02-17 Thread Guenther Sohler
Is there a way to determine the number of bytes/frames already played through the DAC since last reset via snd_pcm_status in v0.9.x ? Its possible in OSS via ioctl and in alsa v0.5.0 you can view at a element "bytes" in sthe respective structure. But how does it work in v0.9.x ? rds guenther

[Alsa-devel] mixer problem with creative audixy - was most simple alsa seq application

2002-02-16 Thread Guenther Sohler
Thank you very much for the advice. I dont need thr queue any more Now almost all midi works again in my application - but now for alsa(instead of oss) But there is another problem now. I use an audixy card in my pc connected to an external amplifier. Even the amplifier is set to the maximal volu

Re: [Alsa-devel] Most simple use of sequencer in ALSA

2002-02-16 Thread Guenther Sohler
thank you for your info. now i know that my procedure was almost correct. Until now i had good success in porting my app to alsa. it will be completed soon. rds guenther On 15-Feb-02 Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 15 Feb 2002 07:21:24 +0100 (MET), > Guenther Sohler wrote: >>

Re: [Alsa-devel] 2.5.5-pre1 kernel - compile as modules?

2002-02-15 Thread Guenther Sohler
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[Alsa-devel] Most simple use of sequencer in ALSA

2002-02-14 Thread Guenther Sohler
I have simplified the seq.c in the alsa-driver-test direcory for me to also understand. The program is now quite short and outputs a note and quits here is it --- #include #include "alsa/asoundlib.h" int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { snd_seq_t *handle; snd_seq_event_

[Alsa-devel] Most simple use of sequencer in alsa

2002-02-13 Thread Guenther Sohler
Yesterday I was trying to use the sequencer to send a NOTEON EVENT to my wavetable device. I did *open the sequencer *allocated a port_info structure *filled in port and client to port_info *attached info to sequencer *allocated event *freed event * freed port structure I was not able to get fur

Re: [Alsa-devel] Status of ALSA documentation?

2002-02-13 Thread Guenther Sohler
> Yes and no. Just like code, there's always room for improvement. Anyway, > almost all functions are already documented, see: > > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/index.html > As I see, just the pcm functions are documented but the functions about midi and about sequencer are much

[Alsa-devel] Creative audixy

2002-02-10 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo Takshi Iwai It seems that midi output now works for the audixy card. But I dont receive any midi input data. Can you please see if you find any error ? Analysing pmidi, i see functions, which play a note on the sequencer. but its already half automized. Is there a possibility turning on an

[Alsa-devel] documentation on /proc/asound with audixy

2002-02-10 Thread Guenther Sohler
hallo list there is quite huge directory- and file tree in /proc/asound/directory_for_audixy I assume,you can even modify parameters there by piping special commands to these files. Is this documented somewhere ? Neither can I find the code in the alsa, which attaches this information to the pro

[Alsa-devel] emu10k1 specification

2002-02-08 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo Takshi Iwai, is there specification of the emu10k1 chip available describing all its registers etc ?? or is it nda ? I am curioius about it rds guenther ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinf

[Alsa-devel] stupid question about pcm devices

2002-02-07 Thread Guenther Sohler
I have seen that alsa provides nice pcm devices in /dev/snd directory *They are split in playback and capture devices :) nice idea. In Oss I was able to pipe data from and to them and therfore was recording/playing back at a certain sample rate. With alsa this is not possible anymore. it says the

[Alsa-devel] problems and questions with creative audixy

2002-02-07 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo List, I migrated to alsa now. I think its a quite good concept, but I think I have found some bugs When I play a midi file to the audixy wavetable synth, and there is a instrument like a cello which sounds till you switch it off, and you interupt with CTRL-C it stays hanging. its done with

[Alsa-devel] Creative Audixy

2002-02-04 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo Takashi Iwai, hello all the other people who replied to my questions, Yesterday I downloaded the cvs export version of the alsa project 2002-02-04.tar.bz2 and the Alsa-sound-mini-HOWTO.html I carefully read through the mini-HOWTO and I understood, that i first had to build the drivers, then

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] Creative audixy

2002-02-04 Thread Guenther Sohler
hallo takishi iwai, where can i get the cvs sources ? are they the same as the development release ? the ftp server on alsa-project seems to be either vey slow or down. rds guenther ___ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourcefor

[Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] Creative audixy

2002-02-04 Thread Guenther Sohler
dded to your modules.conf file. >> > >> > you could also try to (as root) do: modprobe snd-seq-oss >> > which (i think) should load the necessary modules automagically. >> > >> > when the drivers are correctly set up, sfxload >> > Is the corr