Paul Winkler wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:13:08PM -0500, Jan Depner wrote: > >>On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 13:27, lee wrote: >> >>>derek holzer wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Russell Hanaghan wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Is there anything out there other than the regular Alsamixergui or Gnome >>>>>alsa-mixer that has some flexibility here? >>>> >>>> >>>>Try envy24control. It's in alsa-tools. It's the only one that lets you >>>>access all the controls of the soundcard. >>> >>>The one thing that threw me off (and I believe this qualifies as a bug >>>or perhaps confusing feature) is the digital mixer for all the channels >>>gives two faders per channel. So if you raise both faders on channel >>>one, it will send the same signal to both speakers. If you raise both >>>faders on channel two, it will do the same, effectively adding the two >>>signals together giving an output level twice as loud as what's actually >>>getting sent to the mixer. >>> >> >>That's a feature. It just takes some getting used to. Normally I raise >>left on one channel and right on another. This allows you to mix some >>left into right and right into left or swap left and right. > > > I agree that it's a feature, but IMHO the UI is less than ideal. > I think I'd prefer a single slider and some kind of pan widget. > This feature makes the "l+r gang" button on each channel useless, since the way I have always used analog mixers for stereo tracks is to gang channel one and channel two, each paned hard left and right so I can control stereo volume with one slider. As it is now I have to raise two sliders for stereo tracks, which would work alright with a physical mixing desk but I only have one mouse pointer. -lee
