As a follow-up on this I wanted to make sure that the plugins really work (i.e. work properly on the raspberry) and it does seem so: $ applyplugin piano2.wav piano2_out.wav amp.so amp_stereo 6 Peak output: 117816 $ applyplugin piano2.wav piano2_out.wav amp.so amp_stereo 12 Peak output: 235632 It does seem that the plugin is correctly applying a gain increase - bram On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Bram de Jong <bram.dejong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > > (first mail on this list, I'm new here!) > > I'm trying to do some funky things with ALSA/PulseAudio/Bluetooth on a > raspberry PI, and I already have many things working. However, I would > really like to use some LADSPA plugins as pcm devices/plugs in alsa. > > Following the many guides online my .asoundrc looks like this (using > the simpelest of plugins available): > > pcm.Amp { > type ladspa > slave.pcm "plughw:0,0"; > path "/usr/lib/ladspa"; > plugins [ > { > id 1049 > label amp_stereo > input { > controls [ 6 ] > } > } > ] > } > > However, no matter what I try (changing the slave, the config, ...), I > always seem to get: > > pi@raspberrypi ~ $ aplay -Dplug:Amp piano2.wav > ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM Amp > aplay: main:682: audio open error: File exists > > The plugin definitely exists: > > pi@raspberrypi ~ $ analyseplugin amp > <snip> > Plugin Name: "Stereo Amplifier" > Plugin Label: "amp_stereo" > Plugin Unique ID: 1049 > Maker: "Richard Furse (LADSPA example plugins)" > <snip> > > So that isn't the problem. > > If anyone has any hint to tell me where to start looking that would be > superb. I find nothing in the logs, -vv doesn't help either, ... so I > don't really see what I'm doing wrong. > > One thing that did work (using pulseaudio) was to load the plugin > directly as a PA module, but I want to be able to control the controls > of my plugin in realtime (something which doesn't seem possible until > a much later version of PA): > > ( pactl load-module module-ladspa-sink sink_name=ladspa_amp > master=alsa_output.platform-bcm2835_AUD0.0.analog-stereo plugin=amp > label=amp_stereo control=6 ) > > > kindest and any help much appreciated! > > > - bram > > -- > http://www.samplesumo.com > http://www.freesound.org > http://www.smartelectronix.com > http://www.musicdsp.org > > office: +32 (0) 9 335 59 25 > mobile: +32 (0) 484 154 730 -- http://www.samplesumo.com http://www.freesound.org http://www.smartelectronix.com http://www.musicdsp.org office: +32 (0) 9 335 59 25 mobile: +32 (0) 484 154 730 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user