On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Rene Herman wrote: >On 09/12/2007 03:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> If so, it seems it's a CMI8768 which seems supported by snd-cmipci yes. >>> The CMI chips are okay-ish sounding -- nothing stellar though (ice1724 >>> cards are nice in that respect). >>> >>> Grepping though the driver shows it doesn't support PCM volume, meaning >>> volume adjustment has to be in software (ALSA can do this) and that it >>> records only at 44.1/48 if that's important to you. >> >> No wonder its "quite affordable". That sounds rather crippled to me. > >Not sure, I haven't made up my mind on software volume control yet. If you >do volume control in hardware you can do it analogue or digital. Analogue >you introduce more opportunity for introducing noise into the signal and >digitally, while keeping cost (and complexity) down, the CPU is generally >going to be better equiped resource-wise than the card is, so it may make >some sense to just let software deal with it. > >Moreover, I generally just set all volumes to 0 dB anyway and only ever >adjust volume externally at the analogue amplifier that sits between the >card and the speakers (it in some cases may be built in to the latter, but >even those are often better then the ones on cheap cards). > >Latency-wise, I expect softvol is a non-starter always but if this is not a >concern, I don't know. Latency is a concern. >Opionions in fact appreciated, which is why I added >alsa-user back -- hope you don't mind. NP. I'd not realized I had dropped the list, thanks. >As to the capture direction; well, capture isn't widely used. You don't need >192 kHz for recording, say, a VoIP conversation. > >> I have an Audigy 2 ATM, which seems to work fairly well (even has >> software tone controls) as I have things configured to use it as the >> system default, relegating the nvidia/intel8xx motherboard audio for >> skype and gizmo use. > >But yes, I'd stick with that. Were you only considering upgrading due to the >7.1? Are you really going to sit there with 7 loud-speakers surrounding you >and a subwoofer at your feet? :-) > >Rene. Simple answer, no. This room is stuffed now. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
