Re: RME AES-32 questions

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At Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:57:15 +0000,
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:03:15 +0000,
> > James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> >>>  > Now that we have these dB gain levels, we could potentially set all
> >>>  > mixer controls to 0dB, i.e. not gain and not attenuation, with only
> >>>  > the master output control being set to a lower value so as to avoid
> >>>  > ears breaking.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I don't know where the master output control is. Do you see it in the
> >>>  outputs of 'amixer' or 'amixer contents' I provided in one of my
> >>>  previous messages?
> >>>
> >> version 1.0.16 of amixer will have the dB values.
> >> You also have to have version 1.0.16 of alsa-driver and alsa-lib.
> > 
> > hdspm driver still doesn't support TLV dB information.
> > In addition, rme9652/hdsp/hdspm drivers use control elements in a
> > non-standard way for indirect accessing, so each mixer value isn't
> > visible in amixer or alsactl.
> > 
> So, in that case mapping values from 0 to 65536 to gain values is not
> yet done for you. You will have to find some other method to convert
> them to gain values, and as the driver does not document the mapping,
> you probably have to use trial and error or look at a datasheet if they
> exist.

32768 = unity gain is found in hdspm.txt.
But the actual dB level to be applied for other values isn't mentioned
there.


Takashi

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