Re: [Alsa-user] S/PDIF Volume

2010-10-07 Thread Thor Kristoffersen
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Clemens Ladisch cladi...@googlemail.com wrote: Thor Kristoffersen wrote: I never understood the need for bit-exactness anyway.  With 24 bits of resolution it seems like a requirement based more on neurosis than reality. Real-world DACs never have more than

Re: [Alsa-user] Alsa and Jack

2010-10-06 Thread Thor Kristoffersen
Samuel Kidman samkid...@gmail.com writes: I'm having issues getting audio programs that don't use jack to make sounds while i'm running jack. as soon i quit jack everything works again. Applications that use jack work fine when jack is running but i can't get them to make a sound without jack.

Re: [Alsa-user] S/PDIF Volume

2010-10-05 Thread Thor Kristoffersen
Gerry Brown ge...@gbrown.com writes: Thor, If you want to control the volume on the S/PDIF output, you can use the softvol plugin. http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/How_to_use_softvol_to_control_the_master_volume Yes, I'm aware of the softvol plugin, and I'm not saying that bit-exactness is a

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe support

2010-10-04 Thread Thor Kristoffersen
Clemens Ladisch clem...@ladisch.de writes: Thor Kristoffersen wrote: James Le Cuirot ch...@aura-online.co.uk writes: Sounds like the ASUS Xonar D2X could work for you. Is it known to work perfectly in ALSA? Yes. Okay, that's one candidate. I did a bit of searching, and I found that if I

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe support

2010-10-02 Thread Thor Kristoffersen
nidujay nidu...@gmail.com writes: Ignore my last post. I got it thanks. I'm glad you got it to work. By the way, regarding your first Titanium issue about soundfont support, I recommend that you install Qsynth. It provides full soundfont support in software. Thor

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe support

2010-10-01 Thread Thor Kristoffersen
nidujay nidu...@gmail.com writes: I've got a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe sound card which I purchased for the following 2 reasons: 1. It supports sound fonts 2. I require an SPDIF optical input My OS is UbuntuStudio 10.04 which I believe uses alsa version 1.0.22.

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe support

2010-10-01 Thread Thor Kristoffersen
Clemens Ladisch clem...@ladisch.de writes: nidujay wrote: Any idea what I can do? Don't buy Creative. Ok, I have the following requirements to a soundcard: - PCI Express - 96kHz/24-bit - Optical SPDIF I/O - Works correctly in ALSA Do you know of any card that fulfils these requirements?

Re: [Alsa-user] [alsa-devel] Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe support

2010-10-01 Thread Thor Kristoffersen
James Le Cuirot ch...@aura-online.co.uk writes: Ok, I have the following requirements to a soundcard: - PCI Express - 96kHz/24-bit - Optical SPDIF I/O - Works correctly in ALSA Do you know of any card that fulfils these requirements? (Preferably less than EUR250.) Sounds like the

[Alsa-user] X-Fi Titanium S/PDIF capture only possible with unmuted input

2010-08-23 Thread Thor Kristoffersen
. It would render the card useless for real-time audio processing applications, since the input signal is always sent straight to the output. This is my software configuration - Debian Squeeze - Linux 2.6.32 (Debian Linux 2.6.32-15) - alsa-lib 1.0.23 Best regards, Thor Kristoffersen