Hi Justin, I have a Zoom H4 and had similar ideas of using it as a laptop audio device, but the mics are indeed always monitoring and I never found any way of turning this off. On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Justin Smith <noisesmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The mixing I need is controlling the monitor level of the mic. It > seems to be always on if the mic is on at all. Actually it may not be > a separate control on this chip. I guess I could expect as much from a > $200 sound card / flash card reader / 4 channel flash card surround > recorder / mp3 player / tuner / metronome / toaster (guess which it > does not actually do). > > I cannot seem to find the chip documented anywhere, but I do know that > it uses the standard snd_usb_audio module. > > It seems like my best workaround is to use the h2 only as an input, > except its output is a bit better than my built in sound card and I > need about 16 times the latency and still get xruns every couple of > seconds if I use the separate devices for input/output. > > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:31 PM, <hollunder@xxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, 23 May 2008 22:10:04 -0700 >> "Justin Smith" <noisesmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> To celebrate my new full time job, and payday, I just got a zoom h2. >>> It records four channels from its four microphones, runs on AA >>> batteries, and can be accessed as a hard drive or a sound card (sadly >>> only two mics at a time when a sound card). Excellent little machine >>> for the price. >>> >>> My one problem is that alsa (either via amixer, alsamixer or >>> oss-emulation mixer via aumix) will not give me any mixer controls. Am >>> I stuck with using the silly buttons on the machine for all mixing, >>> when I use it as a sound card? How hard would it be to write a mixer >>> for it... is the problem a lack of developer time or an issue with the >>> device itself? >> >> What kind of mixing controls do you need? If it's just simple stuff for >> playback/working with alsa, it might be possible to use another layer, >> like pulseaudio. >> For jack, I think there is a pretty sophisticated mixer available. I >> never used it myself, I think it is called jackmixer or something. >> >> I don't know what kind of chip it uses, maybe you can use a mixer app >> for other soundcards? (Envy24 control, ...) >> >> Best Regards, >> Philipp >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
