[opensuse-factory] audacity, pulseaudio and M-Audio 2496 - no recording possible
Hi *, I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 in one of my systems. I use the digital in and digital out connectors. Output works perfectly with pulseaudio and different audio programs, but I can't find a solution for my recording problems. With audacity the input level seems to be 0, the pavuctl program also show this level. With Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 on the same system and with the same connectors everything works as expected, so it is not a hardware problem. Do I have to change something in the alsamixer? I'm a bit confused about the different channels and switches for my card shown in alsamixer. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thx! Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Hi, sry, forgot to add the information about the os - it is of course a Tumblweed system with the latest snapshot installed.
Hi *,
I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 in one of my systems. I use the digital in and digital out connectors. Output works perfectly with pulseaudio and different audio programs, but I can't find a solution for my recording problems. With audacity the input level seems to be 0, the pavuctl program also show this level. With Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 on the same system and with the same connectors everything works as expected, so it is not a hardware problem. Do I have to change something in the alsamixer? I'm a bit confused about the different channels and switches for my card shown in alsamixer. Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thx!
Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
-- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:47:00 +0200, Michael Hirmke wrote:
Hi *,
I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 in one of my systems. I use the digital in and digital out connectors. Output works perfectly with pulseaudio and different audio programs, but I can't find a solution for my recording problems. With audacity the input level seems to be 0, the pavuctl program also show this level. With Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 on the same system and with the same connectors everything works as expected, so it is not a hardware problem. Do I have to change something in the alsamixer? I'm a bit confused about the different channels and switches for my card shown in alsamixer. Can anyone shed some light on this?
If your card is a bit old PCI boards driven by snd-ice1712 driver, it's a semi-professional card, thus it has far more knobs than PA understands and prefers. Try to install envy24control package and run it, it's a GUI. There you can route and adjust the input for each channel individually. Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 22/10/15 07:08, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:47:00 +0200, Michael Hirmke wrote:
Hi *,
I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 in one of my systems. I use the digital in and digital out connectors. Output works perfectly with pulseaudio and different audio programs, but I can't find a solution for my recording problems. With audacity the input level seems to be 0, the pavuctl program also show this level. With Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 on the same system and with the same connectors everything works as expected, so it is not a hardware problem. Do I have to change something in the alsamixer? I'm a bit confused about the different channels and switches for my card shown in alsamixer. Can anyone shed some light on this?
If your card is a bit old PCI boards driven by snd-ice1712 driver, it's a semi-professional card, thus it has far more knobs than PA understands and prefers. Try to install envy24control package and run it, it's a GUI. There you can route and adjust the input for each channel individually.
Takashi
Sorry to butt in with a 'me too' comment, but these symptoms are somewhat similar to a situation I have on another desktop machine, except that in that case, it's running AVLinux with Jack instead of PulseAudio, using a SBLive PCI soundcard. Output is fine but there are a bewildering array of software inputs (only the usual mic/line on the card itself so I don't know what all the others really represent). After fiddling extensively with the mic input in Audacity I could sometimes get the recording level meters to activate, but then they would just stop again randomly. This distro has lots of audio/music-oriented software installed so I went through all the mixer apps, and adding/adjusting sliders and mutes for microphones was nonsensical in all of them, with some sliders not representing the correct device, but I've no idea how I'd correct that. I'd hoped to use that machine for music and also VOIP calls but the latter at least is currently impossible as no mic or webcam gets properly detected. WebRTC apps complain of 'no microphone detected'. Under Windows XP on that same dual-boot machine, the basics all seem to work fine. gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:26:29 +0200, gumb wrote:
On 22/10/15 07:08, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:47:00 +0200, Michael Hirmke wrote:
Hi *,
I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 in one of my systems. I use the digital in and digital out connectors. Output works perfectly with pulseaudio and different audio programs, but I can't find a solution for my recording problems. With audacity the input level seems to be 0, the pavuctl program also show this level. With Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 on the same system and with the same connectors everything works as expected, so it is not a hardware problem. Do I have to change something in the alsamixer? I'm a bit confused about the different channels and switches for my card shown in alsamixer. Can anyone shed some light on this?
If your card is a bit old PCI boards driven by snd-ice1712 driver, it's a semi-professional card, thus it has far more knobs than PA understands and prefers. Try to install envy24control package and run it, it's a GUI. There you can route and adjust the input for each channel individually.
Takashi
Sorry to butt in with a 'me too' comment, but these symptoms are somewhat similar to a situation I have on another desktop machine, except that in that case, it's running AVLinux with Jack instead of PulseAudio, using a SBLive PCI soundcard. Output is fine but there are a bewildering array of software inputs (only the usual mic/line on the card itself so I don't know what all the others really represent).
A different sound card, a completely different problem. The only same thing is that it's something about the mixer setup. Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Takashi, thx for your reply.
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 21:47:00 +0200, Michael Hirmke wrote:
Hi *,
I have an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 in one of my systems. I use the digital in and digital out connectors. Output works perfectly with pulseaudio and different audio programs, but I can't find a solution for my recording problems. With audacity the input level seems to be 0, the pavuctl program also show this level. With Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 on the same system and with the same connectors everything works as expected, so it is not a hardware problem. Do I have to change something in the alsamixer? I'm a bit confused about the different channels and switches for my card shown in alsamixer. Can anyone shed some light on this?
If your card is a bit old PCI boards driven by snd-ice1712 driver, it's a semi-professional card, thus it has far more knobs than PA understands and prefers.
PA ist showing lots of controls or knobs - I just don't understand the meaning of most of them 8-(
Try to install envy24control package and run it, it's a GUI. There you can route and adjust the input for each channel individually.
I already installed envy24control, but whatever I configured with it, it never seemed to change anything. I'm really a noob regarding the specific terms of sound processing. After your message I tried envy24control again and (de)activated every control in term. After setting the Master Clock to S/PDIF In I got a recording level, but I don't understand why. And I don't understand any setting on the Pachbay/Router tab. If I only want do use S/PDIF Out for playing music and S/PDIF In for recording music, what would be the correct settings on all of the tabs? Is there a HOWTO or some other doc, where I can read about the settings? Btw: I also installed mudita24, which seems to be the successor of envy24control. Latest version of envy24control stems from 2000, whilst mudita's latest version is 2011 born.
Takashi
Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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