On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Paul Berry wrote: > I have recently compiled and installed ecamegapedal v0.4.3 - [libecasound > 2.3.0]. and I'm having some problems getting it to work right. I thought I'd > post my questions to this list as I'm assuming Kai Vehmanen subscribes to > this list as well. You assumed right. :) > First off, ecamegapedal is exactly what I am looking for - an easy way to turn > a computer into an effects box. Realtime reverb, delay, LAPSPA plugins... Also check out JACK-Rack: http://pkl.net/~node/jack-rack.html > First is that I'm getting a lot of backround distortion/ static. I can hear my > input signal fine and the selected effects work as they should. The level > meters are quite active when there is no signal input/ quiet passage and the > distortion is a low level buzzing/ static that is totally related to running > the program. Does the same happen with ecasound? Here's a few things to try: # basic ecamegapedal style rule ecasound -i alsa,default -o alsa,default # ...the same but with an effect ecasound -i alsa,default -o alsa,default -pn:time_phaser1 # ...more buffering ecasound -i alsa,default -o alsa,default -pn:time_phaser1 -z:intbuf # ... 8bit only ecasound -f:8,2,44100 -i alsa,default -o alsa,default -pn:time_phaser1 -z:intbuf # ... use ALSA hw-interface ecasound -f:8,2,44100 -i alsa,hw:0 -o alsa,hw:0 ... you can also try running both as root and as normal user, and see if there is any difference. > The other problem is periodically the computer totally locks up, GUI, mouse, > keyboard, everything freezes and I have to do a hard reset (no other program > that I've run seems to cause this on my computer but the computer is old and > flakey in other respects...). Hmm, running as root...? > Creative SB AWE64 ISA soundcard Now this is problematic. I have one and it is a pretty lousy card unfortunately. :( For example, you cannot do simultaneous 16bit playback and recording. One of the streams has to be 8bit. -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!
