On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:09:55PM +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > On 12 October 2010 16:02, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:16:37PM +0100, Ian Malone wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've had a look and the only thing I can find on this is an unresolved > >> bug report. Which is odd, because prior to pulse every sound system I > >> ever used let you play the sound in directly to sound out. Anyway the > >> situation is this: I'd like to be able to play a guitar through my > >> sound card and be able to listen to backing tracks and other things at > >> the same time. The suggested "pacmd load-module module-loopback" isn't > >> viable as it has latency. JackD works fine for guitar (and I can use > >> things like rakarrack or guitarix which are good fun), but using JACK > >> seems to mean I can't use other sound sources (presumably it connects > >> to ALSA). So, what's the answer? > > > > In PulseAudio, each sink has an associated "monitor" source that you > > can use to monitor what's going out of that sink (such as listening to > > a mixdown). > > > > How do you actually listen to a monitor? The only way I've found so > far is to use the loopback device which has a ~ 1/3 second latency. You can do this by running 'pamon' (from the pulseaudio-utils package) and assigning the stream you create to some sink. I just did it both by 'folding back' onto the same output device and by assigning to a new device. In both cases latency was not apparent -- when I folded back it sounded just like I increased the gain of the input stream. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
