Re: Re: hdspmixer issues

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:48:52 +0100 (BST),
Iain Kennedy wrote:
> 
> > And excellent stuff, I now get sane (looking) mixer levels all over the
> > place :)
> >
> > Now that I can see the levels, I notice that all 8 analogue ins are
> > sitting at about  3/4 of the way up (showing about -6.60 variable) with
> > nothin plugged in to them... no audible noise coming through.. I guess
> > this is not related though... I'll investigate later.
> >
> > Thanks very much indeed :)
> >
> > Iain
> >
> Aha.. OK, so my excitement may have been a little premature :)
> 
> Now I have the 8 inputs showing a high level (3/4 full -6.59->6.8) on the
> 8 analogue inputs of my multiface (even though seven of them are not
> plugged in).. the line in 1 is connected to powered Miq, and the yellow
> RMS bar seems to be doing the right thing, but is always below the green
> peak level meter.
> 
> The audio itself sounds very good to me on all counts.
> 
> When using xmms/jack, or aplay -D plughw:0,0 some_file.wav, the left
> playback channel is flickering right up at the top (not peaking red
> though), whereas the right channel (playback 2) is not showing anything
> for peaks at all with the green meter. The right channel is also showing
> -120.6 - the left is showing 0.0. I can hear sound for both channels as
> normal.
> 
> When routed the analogue inputs or playback channels to analogue out 1/2
> and the line outs, the meters look pretty normal to me on the bottom row,
> and the yellow RMS bars seem much more reasonable on the playback and
> analogue ins than the green (peak) level meters.

Hmm, it looks like we still have small problems...
Maybe Thomas has better clue (I have no RME h/w).

Anyway, I already applied the last patch to CVS since it improves (at
least for you :)


Takashi


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