Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Lindsay Haisley]

Hey, thanks for the tip on getting Audacity to see the S/PDIF inputs on
my Delta 66 card (as noted in the link).  It's a bit of a klunky
solution but quite workable, and solves my immediate needs.

And thanks for all the encouragement toward using JACK.  When I can pull
it off, I'm going to build or re-purpose a separate box just for
recording work, put my Delta 66 card in it, and put Ardour and JACK,
among other software, on it.

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 23:28 +0300, Asmo Koskinen wrote:
> Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti:
> 
> > I'm really sorry - can't help, because I do not have any real
> digital 
> > device to put in Delta 66/Audacity...
> 
> Well, it seems to work:
> 
> http://www.64studio.com/node/787
> 
> 64Studio 3.0 Beta 3 = Ubuntu 8.04 with stuff by 64Studio (another 
> kernel, ffado etc).
> 
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Re: Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Kiernan Holland]

It should work, I figure.. But it does have AMI "made for vista" BIOS..
Or is it Phoenix that is trying to ruin the linux commuity..

As for the Dimension 9150, it isn't like my old XPS B800r that had the
proprietary ram and won a 10 from Maximum PC in 2000..  This 9150, is all
standard parts..  I bought it on ebay from someone (unaffiliated with Dell)
it arrived MB DOA, Dell transferred the warranty and sent a guy out to
replace the MB. You just have to convince the tech support that it is
definately DOA.. For the record my B800r was DOA, and they replaced MB on
that too. However, I've heard Dell laptops suck.. Note, Dell has a deal with
Canonical to make Ubuntu based netbooks. Supposedly Dell's CEO uses Ubuntu
(typical linux usage rumors).   The 9150 has a huge latch for opening the
case, and a big latch for unlocking all the card slots, it takes me abotu 30
seconds to swap out a card, plus space for 6 drives ( 2 internal, 4 front
external, front CPU fan, heat sink and chute), 4 sata connectors, about 6
USB2's in back and 2 in front.  It feels solid, not flimsy like some
dekstops.

This video shows the internals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3us514PJuM

 I have a NVidia 9800GT on it, and Ubuntu Studio 9.04 dual booted with XP
(for games, don't trust it for anything else). In wine I've played the
entire Valve Orange Box (HL2, Ep1 and Ep2, Portal, and TF2 plays), Oblivion
(not far enough into it),  Prey (it sucks but I completed it), COD 4 (I'm
almost to the end of the game), Flatout 2 (completed), and I just got
Fallout 3 working (okay if you don't mind 3D artifacts like mispatched point
clouds, missing eyes and heads).  Quake Wars is native of course, and Voip
works, so .. But if you like pinball, there is an installer for future
pinball on wine (get the "Black Knight"). Believe it or not I have videos
demonstrating all of those games  (and the KISS, Globe Trotters and Elton
John pinball machines) I want to find some tables with the subsurface
magnets.

Games:

COD4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NnW6F_hcKo

Pinball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aitjGW-hTAE

Portal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLFvCPjFE5Y

Oblivion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geydV6C7Wrs


I have Ubuntu 9.04 on my IBM T30 (IBM makes excellent laptops, too bad
Lenovo has the ball.  My Acer Aspire has Ubuntu 9.04 and XP (I got the XP
model because it seems you need more memory to run Windows and you get a
hard drive, while on the linux one you only get a solid state drive. Though
I can only stand laptops with the track-points *and three thumb buttons)..
Touch pads must die a cruel death.

Music from my T30 with Jack and ZynAddSubFx (goto 5:38, Tomita-ish improv on
a 5 dollar midiboard):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPdrA4XBvT0

Some sound routing with my YPT-300, JackRack and ZynAddSubFx:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r56XPeJC5vU

Second half of this video demonstrates Bristol (vintage synth emulator, not
as good as ZynAddSubFX, but controllable via Jack):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyPSPTSFE3A

Jack is not really reliable enough to use live, but it can be used for
recording work. When I do a big setup it tends to drop the minute it hits
quite a few Xruns, I don't know if that's Jack or ZynAddSubFx (very
unstable). LMMS has Zyn as a builtin module. I want to do a remake of "Mr.
Blue Sky" with a vocoder with Ardour.. Sometime.. Why I'm up here is to
figure out how to get dual cores to work well with Jack because it seems to
prefer single cores. That's why I'm building the EE machine.. After this
letter I'm going to go over and attack it, see if I can't get it going.



On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Lindsay Haisley  wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 09:41 -0600, Kiernan Holland wrote:
> > I'm making a machine just for this, it's also not for wusses
> > either :^) though it looks simple than swapping out LCD's on a laptop
> > (yes, I've never put one together)..  Tiger direct is selling
> > refurbished Nvidia i750 motherboards.
>
> Nvidia doesn't have a good reputation for cooperation with F/OSS.
> They've made some progress, but I don't know if I'd choose an Nvidia MB
> for a Linux installation.  It might be more work than it's worth.
>
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Re: Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Lindsay Haisley]

On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 09:41 -0600, Kiernan Holland wrote:
> I'm making a machine just for this, it's also not for wusses
> either :^) though it looks simple than swapping out LCD's on a laptop
> (yes, I've never put one together)..  Tiger direct is selling
> refurbished Nvidia i750 motherboards.

Nvidia doesn't have a good reputation for cooperation with F/OSS.
They've made some progress, but I don't know if I'd choose an Nvidia MB
for a Linux installation.  It might be more work than it's worth.

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Re: Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Kiernan Holland]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Kiernan Holland wrote:

>
>
>>
>> It's even put me in mind of setting up a separate Linux box just for
>> audio (and possibly AV) work.  Gentoo Linux has a sub-distribution
>> explicitly designed for AV work.  Ardour has been moved to this package
>> class and isn't even available for the Linux I use on my desktop system.
>>
>>
Oh and, if you format your gentoo partition, don't do a left resize with
gparted, it will take forever (without progress feedback) and if you cancel
it it will corrupt both partitions. If you got Gentoo by choice (who does?),
sorry.. I've thought about learning gentoo just as a learning experience,
but in a sun virtualbox.  I wonder if there is plans to turn jack into a
kernel module.

Also google "dell financial services" you will find the place to buy that
Dell dimension 9150.  The case alone is worth 280 dollars.. A massive latch
to open the case, and a latch to remove cards, sata, 2.8Ghz Pentium D.. It's
what I do most all my tutorials on.. I demo'd Flatout 2 (game) on wine,
while recording the video with gtk-record my desktop at 25fps with this
machine. You'll have to change the power supply to get a Nvidia 9800GT.
BTW, you can use blender for basic video work. I have tutorials on that..

Video to explain Ubuntu install process:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk0YVcayhQc&feature=channel_page

Video to explain how to make videos with blender.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=rofthorax&view=videos&query=blender+%2Bvideo

You can pratically trace my progress with Ubuntu from the time I began to
install it through my account of 400 hour long youtube videos.. It's also
not for wusses.. I challenge anyone to sit through 400 of my videos.. Like
Ed Wood, I don't believe in editing.
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Re: Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Kiernan Holland]

>
>
> It's even put me in mind of setting up a separate Linux box just for
> audio (and possibly AV) work.  Gentoo Linux has a sub-distribution
> explicitly designed for AV work.  Ardour has been moved to this package
> class and isn't even available for the Linux I use on my desktop system.
>
>
I'm making a machine just for this, it's also not for wusses either :^)
though it looks simple than swapping out LCD's on a laptop (yes, I've never
put one together)..  Tiger direct is selling refurbished Nvidia i750
motherboards. That's the two slots sli with heat pipes (don't ask me what
they are cooling) and potential to use fast DDR2 (I got some 1066Mhz ram).
You only need about a gig, Ubuntu hardly ever hits the 1 gig limit. And a
650Watt power supply in case you want to get two 9800Gt's, which is about 80
bucks apiece now. Also Tiger Direct is selling some Pentium Extreme Edition
CPU's (Overclockable 3.73 Ghz 64-bit Pentium-D's) for a hundred dollars a
pop. The reason I went on this "build my own system" quest was that I got
the EE for a upgrade of my 2.8Ghz PD, and found out it's incompatible.. So I
made a money losing PC constructing learning experience of it. Incidently
Tiger Direct is also selling a Quad core AMD barebones kit for 177 dollars
now, but you want clock cycles (faster bus bandwidth = less latency). Yess
I've had assembly programming and digital electronics, and I haven't built
my own PC. Dell is also selling Dell Dimension 9150's (I have one, and I
highly recommend it) for 280 dollars (go to dell financial services).

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Re: Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Lindsay Haisley]

On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 07:03 +, beej...@gmail.com wrote:
> I understand your apprehension at trying to learn a new technology
> when you just want to get something simple done, but in this case I
> absolutely guarantee that if you want to get real audio work done with
> Linux, you are going to HAVE to use JACK. It is not an option. I would
> suggest you learn it now and get it out of the way.

I understand that JACK is a powerful and versatile tool when working
with audio in Linux.  I'm not apprehensive about learning it - it's just
a matter of time.  I use Gentoo Linux on my desktop and on two servers I
run, and no one who is apprehensive about learning new technologies
should _ever_ use Gentoo Linux on a desktop system and expect to get
away with it!  Gentoo Linux ain't for wussies ;-)

I do, however, have priorities on my time, and was looking for a simple
solution to what seemed like a simple problem in pursuit another
objective which was "at the top of the pile", so to speak.  I'll happily
put learning to use JACK on my TODO list for when I have some time to
spend on it.

It's even put me in mind of setting up a separate Linux box just for
audio (and possibly AV) work.  Gentoo Linux has a sub-distribution
explicitly designed for AV work.  Ardour has been moved to this package
class and isn't even available for the Linux I use on my desktop system.

> I would also like to say that this sentence you wrote - "Card has
> input - program needs stream from card's input - hit a switch, make a
> patch, and/or turn up a fader and it should be a done deal" - almost
> exactly describes how JACK works.

I understand and appreciate this.  It looks as if the problem may be as
much with Audacity, from the link which Asmo Koskinen posted to this
thread.

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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Kiernan Holland]

Lindsay, go here to see what jack can do for you


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu94ptNASVw&feature=channel_page

Here are some more things videos..

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=rofthorax&view=videos&query=jack

And please don't ask me how I can have hour long youtube videos.. I have a
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Re: Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[beejunk]

On Aug 14, 2009 2:31pm, Lindsay Haisley  wrote:

Thanks to those who replied to my question.





I believe I already have a realtime kernel on this system (it's running



kernel v2.6.23) but in any event I don't need that level of performance



at this time. The box handles normal audio tasks just fine and tracks



single streams of audio at CD sampling rates without a problem.





I don't have the time to learn a new technology here. I've spent about



3 hours reading and experimenting with JACK and ALSA today, to no avail



(on top of untold hours I've spent in the past trying to come up to



speed on ALSA and its components and get similar stuff to work). I'm



just going to have to put up with the D->A->D conversion for the time



being if I want to input from the digital recorder and screw the IEC958



channel transfer, or else sacrifice the editing I've done with Marantz



EDL marks on the recorder and redo it in Audacity. I was hoping someone



on this list had encountered this problem before and could give me some



quick tips for accessing the signal from the S/PDIF input on the Delta



66 card, but I don't have time to jack around (pun intended ;). It



really seems as if this sort of thing should be easy. Card has input -



program needs stream from card's input - hit a switch, make a patch,



and/or turn up a fader and it should be a done deal. Oh well





Thanks again.




I understand your apprehension at trying to learn a new technology when you  
just want to get something simple done, but in this case I absolutely  
guarantee that if you want to get real audio work done with Linux, you are  
going to HAVE to use JACK. It is not an option. I would suggest you learn  
it now and get it out of the way.


I would also like to say that this sentence you wrote - "Card has input -  
program needs stream from card's input - hit a switch, make a patch, and/or  
turn up a fader and it should be a done deal" - almost exactly describes  
how JACK works.
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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

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Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 23:28 +0300, Asmo Koskinen wrote:
>> Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti:
>>
>>> I'm really sorry - can't help, because I do not have any real digital 
>>> device to put in Delta 66/Audacity...
>> Well, it seems to work:
>>
>> http://www.64studio.com/node/787
> 
> This looks promising.  I'll look further at it.  Thanks.
> 
>> 64Studio 3.0 Beta 3 = Ubuntu 8.04 with stuff by 64Studio (another 
>> kernel, ffado etc).
>>
>> Maybe you really should find some time to learn jackd/qjackctl/Ardour2 - 
>> it is not that hard...
> 
> Yes, I probably need to allocate some time for it, but that's not
> today's job, nor next week's job.  I just wanted to copy some audio at
> the best possible quality without losing my Marantz EDL marks.  I
> condensed the songs using EDL marks from a 5 hour rehearsal down into 2
> hours of pure music for practice and wanted to reproduce this work
> (which took me quite a while) digitally.  In the short run, the small
> loss of quality imposed by the D->A->D conversion isn't worth the extra
> time it would take to re-edit the bare MP3 file on the recorder using
> Audacity.  It's just a practice session, not a production recording!
> But it's the principle of the thing.  I want to be able in the future to
> pull the S/PDIF stream from the recorder to the computer and work with
> it.
> 
It might be a driver issue with your particular kernel or alsa.  It may
be worth getting a newer kernel (I personally use the latest kernel.org
kernel that has a corresponding rt patch) or a newer version of alsa (I
would recommend the kernel first).

> I actually _do_ have ardour (v0.9_beta28) on the box but haven't used
> it.  It looks quite nice.  For some reason there doesn't seem to be a
> current version of ardour in the portage tree in Gentoo anymore.  Maybe
> I need the professional audio portage overlay for Gentoo.
> 
No idea since I don't use Gentoo.  I can say that I have had good
experiences with Ubuntu Studio and even better experiences with
64Studio.  I have a  Ubuntu Studio Jaunty (9.04) and a 64Studio 3.0
beta, and both have much newer versions of the kernel as well as well
apps like ardour.

Good luck,
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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Lindsay Haisley]

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 23:28 +0300, Asmo Koskinen wrote:
> Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti:
> 
> > I'm really sorry - can't help, because I do not have any real digital 
> > device to put in Delta 66/Audacity...
> 
> Well, it seems to work:
> 
> http://www.64studio.com/node/787

This looks promising.  I'll look further at it.  Thanks.

> 64Studio 3.0 Beta 3 = Ubuntu 8.04 with stuff by 64Studio (another 
> kernel, ffado etc).
> 
> Maybe you really should find some time to learn jackd/qjackctl/Ardour2 - 
> it is not that hard...

Yes, I probably need to allocate some time for it, but that's not
today's job, nor next week's job.  I just wanted to copy some audio at
the best possible quality without losing my Marantz EDL marks.  I
condensed the songs using EDL marks from a 5 hour rehearsal down into 2
hours of pure music for practice and wanted to reproduce this work
(which took me quite a while) digitally.  In the short run, the small
loss of quality imposed by the D->A->D conversion isn't worth the extra
time it would take to re-edit the bare MP3 file on the recorder using
Audacity.  It's just a practice session, not a production recording!
But it's the principle of the thing.  I want to be able in the future to
pull the S/PDIF stream from the recorder to the computer and work with
it.

I actually _do_ have ardour (v0.9_beta28) on the box but haven't used
it.  It looks quite nice.  For some reason there doesn't seem to be a
current version of ardour in the portage tree in Gentoo anymore.  Maybe
I need the professional audio portage overlay for Gentoo.

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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Lindsay Haisley]

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 23:08 +0300, Asmo Koskinen wrote:
> Lindsay Haisley kirjoitti:
> 
> > I was hoping someone on this list had encountered this problem before
> > and could give me some quick tips for accessing the signal from the
> > S/PDIF input on the Delta 66 card
> 
> Let me ask this - nothing happens when you try to do this with Audacity?
> 
> http://www.arkki.info/howto/Ubuntu_Studio_Testing/Audacity_spdif.png

The recording device can also be selected from Device Toolbar in
Audacity.  Selecting ALSA:spdif doesn't get me anywhere.  The selection
that fetches the Delta 66's first two ADC outputs into Audacity is
labeled "ALSA: M Audio Delta 66: ICE1712 multi (hw:1,0)"  This is the
only recording input listed as available to Audacity from the Delta 66.
These correspond to the first two physical (analog) input jacks on the
breakout box.  I haven't had any luck changing the audio stream
delivered from the various controls on bus channels exposed in
alsamixer, envy24control or Gnome volume control.

> And you know, you can control Delta 66 with alsamixer, too.
> 
> http://www.arkki.info/howto/Ubuntu_Studio_Testing/Audacity_alsamixer.png

Yes, the CLI-based alsamixer seems, in some ways, to be the best of the
several mixers and control UIs available for the Delta 66, although
envy24control isn't bad.  I've played with settings for the card in
alsamixer a good deal.

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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Asmo Koskinen]

Asmo Koskinen kirjoitti:

> I'm really sorry - can't help, because I do not have any real digital 
> device to put in Delta 66/Audacity...

Well, it seems to work:

http://www.64studio.com/node/787

64Studio 3.0 Beta 3 = Ubuntu 8.04 with stuff by 64Studio (another 
kernel, ffado etc).

Maybe you really should find some time to learn jackd/qjackctl/Ardour2 - 
it is not that hard...

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.

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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Lindsay Haisley]

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 14:08 -0600, Kiernan Holland wrote:
> You need T-shirts that say "get jack"..

Yeah, thanks ;-/

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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Asmo Koskinen]

Lindsay Haisley kirjoitti:

> I was hoping someone on this list had encountered this problem before
> and could give me some quick tips for accessing the signal from the
> S/PDIF input on the Delta 66 card

Let me ask this - nothing happens when you try to do this with Audacity?

http://www.arkki.info/howto/Ubuntu_Studio_Testing/Audacity_spdif.png

And you know, you can control Delta 66 with alsamixer, too.

http://www.arkki.info/howto/Ubuntu_Studio_Testing/Audacity_alsamixer.png

I'm really sorry - can't help, because I do not have any real digital 
device to put in Delta 66/Audacity...

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.

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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Kiernan Holland]

You need T-shirts that say "get jack"..

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Asmo Koskinen wrote:

> Lindsay Haisley kirjoitti:
>
> > How would I use JACK?  I'm not familiar with it.  Does it have a UI of
> > any kind?  Is there a HOWTO somewhere on using it?
>
> Here is something to read for start.
>
> http://linux-sound.org/knowing-jack.html
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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Lindsay Haisley]

Thanks to those who replied to my question.

I believe I already have a realtime kernel on this system (it's running
kernel v2.6.23) but in any event I don't need that level of performance
at this time.  The box handles normal audio tasks just fine and tracks
single streams of audio at CD sampling rates without a problem.

I don't have the time to learn a new technology here.  I've spent about
3 hours reading and experimenting with JACK and ALSA today, to no avail
(on top of untold hours I've spent in the past trying to come up to
speed on ALSA and its components and get similar stuff to work).  I'm
just going to have to put up with the D->A->D conversion for the time
being if I want to input from the digital recorder and screw the IEC958
channel transfer, or else sacrifice the editing I've done with Marantz
EDL marks on the recorder and redo it in Audacity.  I was hoping someone
on this list had encountered this problem before and could give me some
quick tips for accessing the signal from the S/PDIF input on the Delta
66 card, but I don't have time to jack around (pun intended ;).  It
really seems as if this sort of thing should be easy.  Card has input -
program needs stream from card's input - hit a switch, make a patch,
and/or turn up a fader and it should be a done deal.  Oh well

Thanks again.

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 20:09 +0300, Asmo Koskinen wrote:
> Lindsay Haisley kirjoitti:
> 
> > How would I use JACK?  I'm not familiar with it.  Does it have a UI of
> > any kind?  Is there a HOWTO somewhere on using it?
> 
> Here is something to read for start.
> 
> http://linux-sound.org/knowing-jack.html
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/software-ecology-rui-nuno-capela
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/little-boxes-audio-production-hardware-studio-dave
> 
> Dave use Delta 66 and jackd every day.
> 
> Next thing is that you need real time kernel, if you start to use jackd. 
> Here for Gentoo.
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/sound/realtime.xml
> -
> 
> I do use Delta 66 (http://wiki.ubuntu-fi.org/Ubuntu_Studio) but I do not 
> use digital ins/outs, just analog ones (break out box). I do have Echo 
> AudioFire 4 firewire soundcard, too.
> 
> I do everything with jackd (both Delta 66 and AudioFire 4).
> 
> I do not have any digital recorder to put in Delta 66 and I do not use 
> Gentoo, so sorry for that, I can't help more here.
> 
> Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.
> 
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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Asmo Koskinen]

Lindsay Haisley kirjoitti:

> How would I use JACK?  I'm not familiar with it.  Does it have a UI of
> any kind?  Is there a HOWTO somewhere on using it?

Here is something to read for start.

http://linux-sound.org/knowing-jack.html

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/software-ecology-rui-nuno-capela

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/little-boxes-audio-production-hardware-studio-dave

Dave use Delta 66 and jackd every day.

Next thing is that you need real time kernel, if you start to use jackd. 
Here for Gentoo.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/sound/realtime.xml
-

I do use Delta 66 (http://wiki.ubuntu-fi.org/Ubuntu_Studio) but I do not 
use digital ins/outs, just analog ones (break out box). I do have Echo 
AudioFire 4 firewire soundcard, too.

I do everything with jackd (both Delta 66 and AudioFire 4).

I do not have any digital recorder to put in Delta 66 and I do not use 
Gentoo, so sorry for that, I can't help more here.

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.

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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Lindsay Haisley]

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 10:50 -0500, Brian David wrote:
> I don't see you referencing JACK at all in your description.  Are you
> using JACK?

How would I use JACK?  I'm not familiar with it.  Does it have a UI of
any kind?  Is there a HOWTO somewhere on using it?

The system in question is using Gentoo, not Ubuntu, and there's an
alsa-jack media plugin installed (although it's an old version and no
longer available as such, and may have been rolled into the alsa-utils
package).

> I've never needed to use envy24control, but I'm guessing that any
> sound going into envy24control should be capable of being routed via
> JACK into any other program.

I've not found envy24control particularly logical or useful, but it does
give me some idea of signals present on the card.

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Re: Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Brian David]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Lindsay Haisley  wrote:

> I have a M-Audio Delta 66 card in my desktop system and a digital
> recorder which can output S/PDIF digital audio.  I can connect the
> S/PDIF output from the recorder to the input on the Delta 66 card and
> the signal shows up in the S/PDIF meter in envy24control, but goes no
> further, and I can find no way to work with the signal in other
> programs.  In particular, I'd like to be able to record from this input
> using Audacity, but Audacity only seems to want to see the hw0 and hw1
> inputs which are the outputs of the first two ADCs in the card.  I can,
> of course, input to the computer from the analog outputs on the
> recorder, but I'd like to avoid the D->A->D conversion.  (For reasons
> that have to do with the editing capabilities of the recorder, I also
> want to avoid using the USB output and working directly with the saved
> digital file on the recorders CF card).
>
> Is there any way to configure ALSA so as to make the signal coming in to
> the S/PDIF inputs on the Delta 66 accessible to other programs - perhaps
> a stanza in my .asoundrc file?  I have no idea how to probe the card to
> see what devices and control interfaces are available, or exactly what
> to put in ~/.asoundrc to make this sound stream show up in Audacity.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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>
>
>
I don't see you referencing JACK at all in your description.  Are you using
JACK?

I've never needed to use envy24control, but I'm guessing that any sound
going into envy24control should be capable of being routed via JACK into any
other program.


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Help with M-Audio Delta 66 and ALSA

[Lindsay Haisley]

I have a M-Audio Delta 66 card in my desktop system and a digital
recorder which can output S/PDIF digital audio.  I can connect the
S/PDIF output from the recorder to the input on the Delta 66 card and
the signal shows up in the S/PDIF meter in envy24control, but goes no
further, and I can find no way to work with the signal in other
programs.  In particular, I'd like to be able to record from this input
using Audacity, but Audacity only seems to want to see the hw0 and hw1
inputs which are the outputs of the first two ADCs in the card.  I can,
of course, input to the computer from the analog outputs on the
recorder, but I'd like to avoid the D->A->D conversion.  (For reasons
that have to do with the editing capabilities of the recorder, I also
want to avoid using the USB output and working directly with the saved
digital file on the recorders CF card).

Is there any way to configure ALSA so as to make the signal coming in to
the S/PDIF inputs on the Delta 66 accessible to other programs - perhaps
a stanza in my .asoundrc file?  I have no idea how to probe the card to
see what devices and control interfaces are available, or exactly what
to put in ~/.asoundrc to make this sound stream show up in Audacity.
Any help would be appreciated.

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