[ardour-users] Track inputs and outputs, and monitoring

[Mark Knecht]

Too bad this was completely unreadable on my GMail account. You
obviously did some serious ASCII art to put that together


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:23:41 -0400, Luc Tanguay <lucus at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hello there CB,
> 
> I don't know your hardware, but here's what I've found for the Audigy --
> the card I'm using (hope the ouput looks well).
> 
> Reference is from the package emu-tools-0.9.4, file README. I've added
> some labels.
> --------
> Installation Instruction for emu-tools-0.9.4
> Readme v1.2 (January 26, 2002)
> 
> Graphically, the mixers looks like this ( '*' represent volume controls):
> 
>           emu10k1                                  AC97 chip
>         ---------------- (PCM playback)
> ----------------------------------|
> PCM    |               | Analog_out
> |                                  |
>  ----->|
> |---------------->|-----*-------<Sum>------------*-->|---->Line out
> (from  |               |                 |            //  | \
> |        |
> CPU)   |               |                 |          / |   |    \
> |        |
>        |     DSP       |                 |         *  *   *    *
> *(igain) |
>        |   Routing     |<--------------- |<--\     |  |   |    |
> |        |
>        |    Code       |  Analog_in      |    \---< Rec  select >
> -/        |
>        |    and        |                 |         |  |   |
> |            |
>        |   patches     |
> |----------------------------------|
>        |               |                           ^  ^   ^    ^
>        |  (Via         |                           |  |   |    |
>        |   emu-dspmgr) |---> Digital Front         |  |   |    |
>        |               |                          CD Mic Line  Video
>        |               |                        analog
>        |               |
>        |               |--> Analog & Digital Rear
>        |               |
>        |               |<--- Digital sources (CD, Spdif, ...)
>        ----------------     (PCM capture)
> 
> Note that Analog_in is what ever you've selected as record source in
> your OSS mixer.
> ----
> 
> So you have an analog mixer (AC97) and a digital mixer (emu10k1). Ardour
> sees the pcm:capture and pcm:playback streams.
> 
> You can check a snapshot of my QAmix setup at
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/lucus/.  I tried to duplicate in QAmix the
> diagram above.
> 
> Luc
> 
> CB a écrit :
> 
> 
> 
> >By default, sessions in ardour seem to be set up so that each track
> >outputs to a master track, which outputs to playback.
> >
> >As a result, when I record  track 2 (input: alsa_pcm:capture) whilst
> >monitoring a previously recorded track 1, track 2 ends up with track 1
> >recorded onto it also.
> >
> >The only way I've found around this is to mute master, and patch the
> >tracs I want to hear during recording to alsa_pcm:playback (I have no
> >idea why this doesn't then also record onto the new track, but it
> >doesn't). This seems  clumsy to say the least. There must be a better
> >way?
> >
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