Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-07 Thread Joel Roth
richard white wrote: > I have use OSS4 on a few machine and have been very satisfied, but not a > lot with multichannel. I appreciate the separate volume controls for each > application, > > Maybe this could help: > http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/multichannel.html Glad to hear that OSS4 w

Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-06 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 06:32 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2015 05 Aug 21:23 -0500, Joel Roth wrote: > > > What dmix doesn't do (and pulseaudio does) is provide a > > separate volume control for each application. > > Which is an outstanding feature that I do miss on this desktop that I > purg

Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-06 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 12:09:33PM +0200, tilt! wrote: > I appreciate your kind offer of solving my specific > technical problems a lot - however, as it stands, I have > none *fingers crossed* ;-) > > What I want to accomplish is sufficiently addressed by my > listing of problems a, b (grave defec

Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-06 Thread Joel Roth
Hendrik Boom wrote: > How many audio systems does Linux have now? > > Does any of them have really low latency -- the kind you need if you > are programming the synthesizer inside a live-performance musical > instrument? A lot of people do use Linux for live performance. The soundcard DAC/ADC a

Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 10:47:34AM +0200, tilt! wrote: > > As for problem #1, I personally feel that the lack of user > interface (tools and documentation) of the ALSA built-in > solutions has been and is the primary motivator for developments > like Pulseaudio. The paradigm here is: Package A

Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-06 Thread richard white
I have use OSS4 on a few machine and have been very satisfied, but not a lot with multichannel. I appreciate the separate volume controls for each application, Maybe this could help: http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/multichannel.html Also, here's is some good information for supporting OSS

Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2015 05 Aug 21:23 -0500, Joel Roth wrote: > What dmix doesn't do (and pulseaudio does) is provide a > separate volume control for each application. Which is an outstanding feature that I do miss on this desktop that I purged PA from due to extant SysD dependencies. I would just like to see

Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-06 Thread tilt!
Hi Joel, On 08/06/2015 11:39 AM, Joel Roth wrote: [...] You don't mention what you want to accomplish specifically, or why you were using JACK. It may be easier to solve your specific problems, before trying to generally improve the configuration of the audio services under Devuan. I apprecia

Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-06 Thread Joel Roth
tilt! wrote: > Hello! [summary of ALSA features snipped] > d Since the setup in asoundrc is static in nature, dynamically >assigning a multichannel routing, for example through an >interactive volume control, to a specific application is >something I would not immediately know how to a

Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-06 Thread tilt!
Hello! On 08/06/2015 04:22 AM, Joel Roth wrote: [...] What dmix doesn't do (and pulseaudio does) is provide a separate volume control for each application. ... a feature that I use once per year; then it is quite useful. ;-) I find ALSA provides really lots of useful tools, such as: * the pl

Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-05 Thread Joel Roth
Gregory Nowak wrote: tilt! wrote: > > Hello, > > > > subject says it all. > > > > Are there currently ongoing efforts to have that? > > > > If no, I will start one, if yes, I want to join it. > > How about alsa/dmix? Some folks here have mentioned oss4 before, but I > haven't used that myself.

Re: [DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-05 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 11:53:52PM +0200, tilt! wrote: > Hello, > > subject says it all. > > Are there currently ongoing efforts to have that? > > If no, I will start one, if yes, I want to join it. How about alsa/dmix? Some folks here have mentioned oss4 before, but I haven't used that myself.

[DNG] multichannel audio i/o management w/o pulse/dbus

2015-08-05 Thread tilt!
Hello, subject says it all. Are there currently ongoing efforts to have that? If no, I will start one, if yes, I want to join it. Kind regards, T. P.S. I am perfectly aware of JACK, respect it a lot and use it, too, but there remains a jungle of stuff to be done that is outside its scope. ___