[HLUG] MIDI?????

[matt at spherica.demon.co.uk]

Agree with you Julian, mixer settings are a pitfall. I use 'kmix' to access 
every possible channel I can; the standard ubuntu mixer was too basic for the 
SB Live soundcard.

The sound's scratchiness was due to having moved a fader that's mapped to a 
critical part of the card. I've discovered it's possible to store and 
retrieve mixer/soundcard states with the 'alsactl store' (or restore) 
commands; so restoring the last saved mixer state miraculously cured the 
distorted output. For the curious, the fader is something to do with the PCM 
routing of the emu10k1 DSP, which looks best left alone.

Can now record, edit and replay audio and midi. Cheers for the discussion thus 
far.

Matt


On Friday 26 August 2005 12:30, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Matt Rhys-Roberts wrote:
> > Unfortunately my SB Live sounds a bit distorted and scratchy when
> > playing internal midi music, using the default sound font: have yet to
> > discover why.
>
> Check that you have the right volume slider at the right level - i know
> itr sounds obvious but some of these sound cards have lots and lots of
> vol levels, some for OSS and some for ALSA. ALSA is your best bet - OSS
> was the older sound mechanism.
>
> If you're using Ubuntu, double click the vol control next to the date.
> then you'll see the vol levels. Check taht you're using the alsa one,
> and check all of them.
>
> > It remains to be seen whether I can record & reproduce audio in the same
> > program. Perseverance furthers!
> >
> > Matt Rhys-Roberts
>
> Julian
>