Dominique, I'm looking into the kernels/distro's you suggested -- in the meantime, I did startup meterbridge, when using Ardour I to play a WAV file, it's apparent the output level must be clipping the input to ardour or to my alsa output (pcm) as the meterbridge meters peg. Can you tell me what tool to use to playback a WAV file outside of Ardour -- a tool which is JACK-aware I can use to bypass my alsa_pcm capture_1 and capture_2 inputs which apparently are inpust to Ardour when you preview a wav file? Ardour is so complex, I really just need to playback a WAV file (tried aplay but it says my /dev/dsp is busy -- I guess Jack uses it?). Any general troubleshooting techniques I can use before I reimage this PC with a different kernel? I'm using SUSE 10.1 now, and I think this is realtime compatable. Additionally I've got a PentiumD processor, so I think (hope) the 64-bit audio kernels would work fine. Maybe this is an alsa issue. I do know the WAV file plays fine using aplay (without jackd running) -- I can't seem to pipe (or route) this WAV file into anything and have it come out undistorted. Thank you Ronan On 1/19/07, Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:28:17 -0800, > "ronan mcallister" <bass.woofer@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > > What Linux/distro do you use? > > > > Since I posted this I've been experiencing "..But you'll pay dearly > > for it" with an issue I have on Suse 10.1 and my inbuilt Intel 82801G > > ICH7 multichannel sound card. My hope was to install and run up Linux > > and test the inbuilt audio software, but I can't seem to get even the > > most basic features to work -- I've posted elsewhere, but this group > > seems to be the most active. I think the problem is not Alsa but Jack > > as I can playback wav's and capture audio through Alsa (eg aplay, > > amarok), but anything I playback through Jack connections (Ardour etc) > > is distorted - noisy - clicky and no answer found yet. I'm not sure > > how to troubleshoot Jack. > > > Suse standard kernel is not optimised for professional audio work and you > will > get huge sound latency with jack, but yYou can use a kernel from the jacklab > http://jacklab.net/ > > They are some pro-audio distribution as 64 studio http://64studio.com/, > Musix, or even gentoo with the proaudio overlay > http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page > > The advantage of those distribution is at you will get not only a realtime > kernel (needed to get the most of jack), but a fully optimised system for > audio > work. 64 studio and musix are debian testing based and incorporate many > audio > applications not in debian, and you can install all the debian softwares > from > debian testing and unstable (as fvwm-crystal, I am tired of kde, I hate > gnome > focus policy and fvwm is just so fast and so incredibly flexible). Don't be > afraid about the word testing, the stability of debian testing is like a > distribution as suse. > > The advantage of gentoo is its documentation and flexibility (and it is > outstandingly stable if you just follow the handbook (it mean: don't mess > with the CFLAGS, just use the ones in the doc)), but it will need more > work to setup. Another advantage is on the long run: it is no dependency > hell > when upgrading a gentoo system, only some time used by portage to compile > the > programs. > > Actually, I use mostly gentoo, and also 64studio when I want to try > something > else. But I really prefer gentoo even if I recognize at 64 studio is a > really > great audio distribution (it is the successor of agnula/demudi and of the > same > quality, maybe even better) > > About jack and distortion, be aware at it is easy to go in clipping when > mixing > a few sound channels or using effects. You must can use a vu-meter as > meterbridge with the dpm option: > meterbridge -t dpm in_1 in_2 > or even better, jack_mixer http://home.gna.org/jackmixer > > Ciao, > Dominique > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
