[ANN] hdspmixer-1.0

[ANN] hdspmixer-1.0

[Thomas Charbonnel]

Hi,

I'm pleased to announce the first public release of hdspmixer.
Hdspmixer is a linux clone of Totalmix, a tool to control the
advanced routing possibilities of the RME Hammerfall DSP cards.

You can donwload hdspmixer here :
http://www.undata.org/~thomas/

Thomas

RE: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.0

[Mark Knecht]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce the first public release of hdspmixer.
> Hdspmixer is a linux clone of Totalmix, a tool to control the
> advanced routing possibilities of the RME Hammerfall DSP cards.
> 
> You can donwload hdspmixer here :
> http://www.undata.org/~thomas/
> 
> Thomas

Thomas,
   Thanks for the initial release of another great Linux tool!

Cheers,
Mark



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[ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Thomas Charbonnel]

Hi,

This is already a bugfix release :

    * Fixes a typo for Digiface and H9652 cards in HDSPMixerSelector.cxx
      (caused a crash on startup)
    * Fixes a menu messing bug in Submix handling
    * Fixes FLTK detection in configure
    * Fixes a bug preventing full reset to factory settings

It's available from:
http://www.undata.org/~thomas/

Thomas

Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Takashi Iwai]

Hi Thomas,

At Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:44:57 +0200 (CEST),
Thomas Charbonnel wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is already a bugfix release :
> 
>     * Fixes a typo for Digiface and H9652 cards in HDSPMixerSelector.cxx
>       (caused a crash on startup)
>     * Fixes a menu messing bug in Submix handling
>     * Fixes FLTK detection in configure
>     * Fixes a bug preventing full reset to factory settings
> 
> It's available from:
> http://www.undata.org/~thomas/

please let me know if you think it's ok to merge into alsa-tools
cvs tree.  i'll do it asap.


Takashi

Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:24:06 +0200,
I wrote:
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> At Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:44:57 +0200 (CEST),
> Thomas Charbonnel wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is already a bugfix release :
> > 
> >     * Fixes a typo for Digiface and H9652 cards in HDSPMixerSelector.cxx
> >       (caused a crash on startup)
> >     * Fixes a menu messing bug in Submix handling
> >     * Fixes FLTK detection in configure
> >     * Fixes a bug preventing full reset to factory settings
> > 
> > It's available from:
> > http://www.undata.org/~thomas/
> 
> please let me know if you think it's ok to merge into alsa-tools
> cvs tree.  i'll do it asap.

well, i included the version 1.1 into the cvs alsa-tools tree right
now, since we'll release the new tarball soon.

i hope you don't mind...


Takashi

Re: [Alsa-devel] [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Thomas Charbonnel]

> At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:24:06 +0200,
> I wrote:
>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> At Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:44:57 +0200 (CEST),
>> Thomas Charbonnel wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > This is already a bugfix release :
>> >
>> >     * Fixes a typo for Digiface and H9652 cards in
>> HDSPMixerSelector.cxx
>> >       (caused a crash on startup)
>> >     * Fixes a menu messing bug in Submix handling
>> >     * Fixes FLTK detection in configure
>> >     * Fixes a bug preventing full reset to factory settings
>> >
>> > It's available from:
>> > http://www.undata.org/~thomas/
>>
>> please let me know if you think it's ok to merge into alsa-tools cvs
>> tree.  i'll do it asap.
>
> well, i included the version 1.1 into the cvs alsa-tools tree right now,
> since we'll release the new tarball soon.
>
> i hope you don't mind...
>
>
> Takashi

No problem, thanks a lot. I would like to fix issues in hdspconf too. I'll
upload a new tarball in the next ten minutes. Hold on, please...

Thomas

Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Thomas Charbonnel]

It's done (hdspconf-1.1):

http://www.undata.org/~thomas/

It fixes a small bug + an issue in card detection preventing it to work
with hdsp9652 cards. It fixes too FLTK detection in configure.

Thanks,
Thomas





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Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:53:52 +0200 (CEST),
Thomas Charbonnel wrote:
> 
> It's done (hdspconf-1.1):
> 
> http://www.undata.org/~thomas/
> 
> It fixes a small bug + an issue in card detection preventing it to work
> with hdsp9652 cards. It fixes too FLTK detection in configure.

thanks, it's now on cvs.
i hope it can slip into 0.9.6 release.


Takashi


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Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Orm Finnendahl]

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Hi Thomas,

 congrats! Great to have this with linux as well (and it's good to have
it look the same, too). It compiled right away after a minor fix for
FLTK header file name (patch attached).

--
Orm


Am Sonntag, den 27. Juli 2003 um 17:44:57 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Thomas
Charbonnel:
>
> Hi,
> 
> This is already a bugfix release :
> 
>     * Fixes a typo for Digiface and H9652 cards in HDSPMixerSelector.cxx
>       (caused a crash on startup)
>     * Fixes a menu messing bug in Submix handling
>     * Fixes FLTK detection in configure
>     * Fixes a bug preventing full reset to factory settings
> 
> It's available from:
> http://www.undata.org/~thomas/
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
> 
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--- src/HDSPMixerMeter.h-orig	2003-03-04 10:06:46.000000000 +0100
+++ src/HDSPMixerMeter.h	2003-07-28 20:20:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #define HDSPMixerMeter_H
 
 #include <FL/Fl_Widget.H>
-#include <FL/fl_draw.h>
+#include <FL/fl_draw.H>
 #include "HDSPMixerWindow.h"
 #include "HDSPMixerPeak.h"
 #include "pixmaps.h"

Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Thomas Charbonnel]

> Hi Thomas,
>
>  congrats! Great to have this with linux as well (and it's good to have
> it look the same, too). It compiled right away after a minor fix for
> FLTK header file name (patch attached).
>
> --
> Orm
>

Thanks,
Can you commit this to cvs Takashi, please ?

Thomas





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Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:17:34 +0200 (CEST),
Thomas Charbonnel wrote:
> 
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> >  congrats! Great to have this with linux as well (and it's good to have
> > it look the same, too). It compiled right away after a minor fix for
> > FLTK header file name (patch attached).
> >
> > --
> > Orm
> >
> 
> Thanks,
> Can you commit this to cvs Takashi, please ?

done.

thanks!


Takashi


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Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Jesse Chappell]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
 > congrats! Great to have this with linux as well (and it's
 > good to have it look the same, too). It compiled right away 
 > after a minor fix for FLTK header file name (patch attached).

I concur, the combination of hdspmixer and hdspconf really makes 
life easier with the HDSP.  Not to mention the new working 
hdsploader for the Multiface!  Many thanks, Thomas!

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Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[frankgaetano]

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Hello everyone,
 Does this mean that all of the software is now working with the newest version of the firmware for the HDSP? I have been out of the loop since May. I am sorry if I am eating up bandwidth. I just want to know if I should try working with the HDSP in Linux now rather than crappy Windose. :)

Frank




Jesse Chappell <jesse@essej.net> wrote:

>On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
>
> > congrats! Great to have this with linux as well (and it's
>
> > good to have it look the same, too). It compiled right away 
> > after a minor fix for FLTK header file name (patch attached).
>
>
>I concur, the combination of hdspmixer and hdspconf really makes 
>life easier with the HDSP. Not to mention the new working 
>hdsploader for the Multiface! Many thanks, Thomas!
>
>
>jlc
>
>
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Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Orm Finnendahl]

frankgaetano@collegeclub.com am 29. Juli 2003 um 22:33:12 Uhr (-0400):

> Hello everyone, Does this mean that all of the software is now
> working with the newest version of the firmware for the HDSP?

Alsa drivers (including MIDI) and all the tools work on my machine:

Acer TravelMate 528TXV, kernel 2.4.22-pre8 (plain, no low-latency),
gcc3.2.3 with a RME PCMCIA and Multiface (both, revision 0x0a and
0x0b).

I didn't check with the PCI cards on my other machines yet. Upon
loading of the firmware occasionally the system freezes. This might be
my mistake (issuing hdsploader a second time for example freezes it,
or changing the Multiface and trying to reload the firmware with
installed module) or due to the unstable kernel. Apart from that
everything works very smoothly :-)

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Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Thomas Charbonnel]

>
> Hello everyone,
>  Does this mean that all of the software is now working with the newest
> version of the firmware for the HDSP? I have been out of the loop since
> May. I am sorry if I am eating up bandwidth. I just want to know if I
> should try working with the HDSP in Linux now rather than crappy
> Windose. :)
>
> Frank
>
>

It depends on what you call newest :)
If, as your mail seems to imply, you bought your card before May,  I guess
you have 0xb (rev 11) and everything is working fine now if you use the
latest alsa-driver and alsa-tools packages.
If you bought your card this month, then you may have 0x32 (rev 50). I
posted a small patch a few days ago to support these new cards, it should
work fine, but you'll have build the driver from cvs.

Thomas





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Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Paul Davis]

>It depends on what you call newest :)
>If, as your mail seems to imply, you bought your card before May,  I guess
>you have 0xb (rev 11) and everything is working fine now if you use the
>latest alsa-driver and alsa-tools packages.
>If you bought your card this month, then you may have 0x32 (rev 50). I
>posted a small patch a few days ago to support these new cards, it should
>work fine, but you'll have build the driver from cvs.

although thomas and i both agree that there are still some issues
following cold boots for any h/w supported by the hdsp driver. the
solution in most cases is to reboot, but wait to either load the
driver (for pcmcia interfaces) or wait to run hdsploader (for pci
interfaces) till after the system is up. we have no idea what causes
this at this point in time.

warm boots seem to work 100%.

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Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Patrick Shirkey]

Using a multiface with original firmware rev.

I was using the app last night and it seemed to work well except that 
today we have only a very long blank track.

Testing today with ardour reveals that the mute buttons have no effect 
on the recorded signal.

How do the mute buttons work? I fond it difficult to distinguish between 
on and off. Why is the default color red? Does that mean they are on by 
default?

IMO the default should be no color and when they are on they should be red.

I also missed a control for the headphone output.

I also found that aplay could only work at 16 bit. I will update to 
current cvs soon to check that though.



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Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Paul Davis]

>Testing today with ardour reveals that the mute buttons have no effect 
>on the recorded signal.
>
>How do the mute buttons work? I fond it difficult to distinguish between 
>on and off. Why is the default color red? Does that mean they are on by 
>default?
>
>IMO the default should be no color and when they are on they should be red.

thomas is copying RME to avoid confusion. it might be better to ask
them :)

>I also missed a control for the headphone output.

AN1 and AN2 ("analog")



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Re: [ANN] hdspmixer-1.1

[Thomas Charbonnel]

> Using a multiface with original firmware rev.
>
> I was using the app last night and it seemed to work well except that
> today we have only a very long blank track.
>

What do you mean ?

> Testing today with ardour reveals that the mute buttons have no effect
> on the recorded signal.
>

That's the way it's supposed to work. The app only controls routing. As
you may know there is no way to control the input level on the hdsp, no
way to lower thus to mute the input signal. So even if the input is muted,
there still is audio in the buffer which gets recorded, it's just not
routed to the outputs.

> How do the mute buttons work? I fond it difficult to distinguish between
>  on and off. Why is the default color red? Does that mean they are on by
>  default?
>

There are per tracks mute and solo, and global mute and solo buttons. To
mute a track, you need to enable muting (global button) and then mute the
particular track you want to mute. When a track gets muted (when muting is
effective somewhere) all the active mute buttons (per track and global)
light up.
The same applies to solo.

> IMO the default should be no color and when they are on they should be
> red.
>

I copied the original app behaviour for this. If you never used Totalmix
in the past I encourage you to read the Totalmix section in the Multiface
documentation available in pdf format from RME's website.
My plans for the future are to keep conforming to the original, and maybe
add non interfering linux specific extentions (e.g. ladcca support, remote
control via alsa-seq).

> I also missed a control for the headphone output.
>

In the last row (outputs), rightmost, you have the AN.L and AN.R tracks.
These are the line outs. To route signal to the line outs you have to
raise the level of the line outs (AN.L and AN.R, right mouse button on one
of them automatically ajusts the level of the other accordingly), and then
raise the volume of the track you want, checking that the track's
destination is 'Analog'.

> I also found that aplay could only work at 16 bit. I will update to
> current cvs soon to check that though.
>

This is strange. Let me know, or give me more details, please. Using the
hw alsa interface the hdsp can only be opened using all available
channels, in non interleaved mode, and with a depth of 24 bits (packed in
4 bytes). To play a 16 bits soundfile with aplay you should use the plughw
interface that will convert the signal on the fly to meet the card's
requirements.

Thomas






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