Mark Knecht posted on Tue, 01 May 2012 11:28:12 -0700 as excerpted: >> Personally, alsamixer has worked well for me, for years. >> > And that will work for me also, but it's clunky and not easy to remember > which mic levels to set. My system has multiple sound cards, and each > sound card has multiple inputs. If I find the correct inputs in > alsamixer I can set the levels, and they stick through reboots, etc., > but it's just clunky.
Yes. I think you're into audio more than most linux users. KDE's phonon is supposed to help route audio for different purposes to different soundcards, for people with more than one, but there's a couple problems with that: (1) Not so many people have (or actually use if they do have) multiple sound cards, so testing isn't as thorough as it is for the single-card-used case, and (2) phonon only controls kde4-based apps. Meanwhile: I've read a lot about jack-audio, for the low-latency audio professionals need. (For desktops, audio that plays without interruption, thus large buffers and higher latency, is ideal. For professionals, latency is paramount, and they're prepared to deal with small buffers and the occasional x-run interruption in ordered to get the latency they need -- with the idea that if they're getting xruns, the system simply isn't upto the task. That's where real-time kernels, etc, help out. I don't actually know if you're an audio professional or not, or if you're using it or not, but if so, how does that fit into the rest of the picture? As I've never used it, I don't actually know. But from what I've read, it has its own ecosystem. Not all desktop-audio apps support it as it really is more professional end, but from what I've read, within its ecosystem at least, it has its own mixers, visualizers, etc, supplying all that's needed... because it pretty much has to since ordinary desktop audio apps simply aren't designed to be low-latency enough to viably fit the requirements it's targeted at. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
