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Hi!
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I'm new to that list, i'm Alexander Feder, student in Vienna. I play
synthesizer and [E-]violin and finally want to try to sequence and record
what i'm playing.
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It seems though there is lots to do before i can do that.
I've bought a M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 card which i've set up using Alsa.
Audio works fine when using the oss-emulation, but trying to access the
card directly (aplay -D hw:0,0, or using the alsa-xmms plugin or with ecaso=
und)
fails with "Sample format non available".
Isn't that odd? I've thought alsa-oss-emulation would be just another
layer on top of what i would access when using aplay & co. ..
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Recording works fine (also using oss), i've used ecasound for adding nice r=
eal
time effects while playing my e-violin. i can control everything with=20
envy24control though....
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Another problem i have is sequencing, actually midi as a whole. Neither
outputting with pmidi, playmidi or muse works. I'm quite sure i've put
all cables correctly into the Audiophile and my Yamaha CS1x
synth. Both cables (male-male) are 5 pin, the one that i've plugged into
the [in] in my soundcard and to [out] on my synth has 3 pins used (4,2,5
- the three in the middle) and the other cable has all 5 pins used. I've
checked every combination with my ohm-meter, so there is no short-circuit.
All pins are mapped 1:1.
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'pmidi -l' gives
64:0 Rawmidi 0 - M Audio Audiophile M Audio Audiophile 24/96 MPU-401
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trying to output a midi file with pmidi (which i have successfully outputted
using playmidi on a pc with an sb16 and oss, iirc) results in no audible
result. :/ (pmidi -p 64:0 test.mid)
muse outputs something more interesting whenever a note should be played:
MidiAlsaDevice::putEvent(): midi write error, returns -19 expected 28:
No such device
Which i further find odd is that muse is not willing to start playing unless
i've first stepped into the config->audio system to apply the already activ=
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setting of No Audio. Before that the transport indicator will not move. Fur=
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when i activate "Use Alsa" muse exits with the=20
"ALSA: Sample format not available" message.
So does this mean i can't trust what /proc/asound/seq/clients and pmidi -l =
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or does that mean that at the other end, where my synth should be, is no
device attached?=20
same problem in the other direction. muse does not receive any signals
=66rom my cs1x. I've recorded with this cs1x successfully on another pc
with.. another os.. so i think the hardware works.
I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Sid on an Athlon, alsa 0.9.1-2 (for base and lib=
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The things i described both happen on vanilla 2.4.20 with the alsa drivers
coming with debian (also 0.9.1-2) and on a 2.4.20 WOLK-kernel (rc3) with
the integrated alsa-drivers. (these behave slightly different, for example
i can't set the DAC volume with envy24control with the wolk-kernel - the
sliders don't move. this works fine with the vanilla kernel.)
what could i be doing wrong? or could it be that the soundcard itself is
broken? i have no other OS to falsify that.. :/
thank you very much for any help in advance
bye
xandi
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