John Rigg wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 07:14:44PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > >> That sounds reasonable for now. Professional sound card users will maybe >> just have to remember to mute the master control before connecting their >> speakers. >> > > A better solution IMO would be to make the default behaviour of the > pro/semi-pro sound cards default to minimum gain with everything muted, > and do what you're suggesting with other cards. > > If non-pro users want to use pro cards (which are fairly specialised > after all), they can unmute things. The idea of, say, starting up the > hdsp mixer for an RME HDSP MADI card and having all 64 channels come up > at 0dB is pretty frightening. Anything which can start in such a > potentially dangerous state is unusable in a professional context. > > John > I haven't got any skin in this game as either way is fine for me. But to contribute I thought I would ask a couple of questions. Is there a way to identify whether a card is pro or casual? Number of channels? DACs? Chipsets? How is this handled on other OSs? Windows, Mac, Sun? _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
