[PD] hot do you get a comma into a symbol?

[Rich E]

Double oops... sorry I accidently hit reply instead of reply to all.

Now I see you can access all the soundcard's features through [amixer], nice
IOhannes!

So, I guess the only thing that would help is a help file... amixer is
kindof a tricky tool.

cheers,
rich

On 3/9/07, Rich E <reakinator at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 3/8/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
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> > Rich E wrote:
> > > I messed around with iem's amixer and hdspm_mixer ( had to change it a
> > > little to allow the hdsp) a while back, but there is alot more
> >
> > the hdspm_mixer was written with the hdsp-madi card in mind, and not
> > with normal hdsp cards, so it is likely that it did not work out of the
> > box.
> >
> > however, it would be great if you could share your code so it can be
> > included in the hdspm_mixer code and everybody can profit from it.
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> The only thing I did was edit the strncmp line in hdspm_mixer.c ( line 33)
> to check for the hdsp multiface as well as the hdsp madi.  I forgot the
> exact name and I lost the file along with my old harddrive, but I remember
> that it seemed to work ok.  But it didn't have any more functionality than
> amixer, such as getting and setting the channel gains.
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> additionally i'd like to know which functionality is missing in the
> > amixer object, as i would like to improve it to make it more usable.
> > probably file a feature request at sourceforge.net (because else, i will
> > probably forget about it...)
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> There are alot of options on the hdsp, such as setting wordclocks and
> samplerates.  Not really things that need to be scripted, but who knows.  I
> like being able to print out info about what is going on too, which works
> using [shell].
>
> One thing that I am trying to figure out though.... how would you go about
> monitoring the levels that are being sent out? the hdspmixer shows them, but
> I can't find where in the code they calculate the amplitude envelope.
>
> rich
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> > functionality in the terminal versions, so it is nice to be able to
> > > write scripts for them within pd.
> >
> > yes of course; and the world does not end at amixer and it is likely
> > that the problem with commas will re-appear at another application where
> > there happens to be no external available.
> >
> >
> > > As for the HDSP, I'm about to throw mine against a wall.  After months
> > > of fiddling, I can get 4 channels of 88.2k audio in and out ( but not
> > 8
> > > channels of 44.1k... which boggles me.  I get constant dropouts with
> > the
> > > ALSA driver), but even that is at a 30ms latency cost.   Frank, what
> >
> > weird, here i do not remember having much problems with these cards.
> >
> >
> > mfng.asdr
> > IOhannes
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