Newbie trying to use emutrix with emu 1820m
Philippe Cordel
I have a emu 1820m that works well on Windows 7 and I am trying to
make it work on Ubuntu 10.04 64 bits
As I a a very newbie on Linux I don't know what to do !
First I would like to do something simple : record a guitar or a mic
from Dock Mic A (for example)
Reading many posts from the web I know I have to make some
"connections" but I don't know how to do that.
Can i do this with emutrix ?
Do I have to do something with Jack as well ?
Thank you in advance
Philippe
Camilo Polymeris
Hello Philippe
I assume you have sound already. I think Ubuntu 10.04 works out of the
box? Try recording without jack first.
Using emutrix, connect Dock Mic A to some ALSA Capture Port, that is,
click on the square in the Dock Mic A row, ALSA Capture 11 column.
Emutrix should set internal levels appropiately, you'll only have to
adjust the input level (knob on the Dock). Then, just try to record,
using, say, Audacity, configured to use ALSA, of course. Try with
other ALSA Capture Ports (12, 13, etc) if that doesn't work.
Once that works, start playing with jack. Let me know how it went.
Greetings,
Camilo
Philippe Cordel
First of all thank you for your great job for emu users
I used to listen to music with the onboard chipset.
But after your mail I just choose to use SB Audigy.
To listen to music I set on the line ALSA Playback 1 in emutrix the two squares corresponding to Dock DAC 1R and 1L
And it works well !
To record I set Dock Mic A to ALSA capture 11, 12, 13 ... 16 and it does not work
I tried with Audacity I choose ALSA in the Preference Host and default in both playback and record
Perhaps I should set playback and record to some EMU port
Greetings
dimitri
On Nov 15, 3:29 pm, Philippe Cordel <philippe.cor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Camilo
> First of all thank you for your great job for emu users
> I used to listen to music with the onboard chipset.
>
> But after your mail I just choose to use SB Audigy.
> To listen to music I set on the line ALSA Playback 1 in emutrix the two
> squares corresponding to Dock DAC 1R and 1L
> And it works well !
>
> To record I set Dock Mic A to ALSA capture 11, 12, 13 ... 16 and it does not
> work
>
> I tried with Audacity I choose ALSA in the Preference Host and default in
> both playback and record
>
> Perhaps I should set playback and record to some EMU port
>
> Greetings
>
sorry it took me so long to answer.
I don't quite understand what you mean by "listen to music with the
onboard chipset".
Could you try the following?
Open a console (or "terminal"), run 'alsamixer' and switch to
[Capture], using TAB or F4.
Then set the value of the different items labeled "Capture Enum" to
"Dock Mic A", and let me know which, if any, of those changes helps?
If the above doesn't work, you can allways try with jack. Just
remember to use hw:0,2 and hw:0,3 devices.
Greetings,
Camilo
Philippe Cordel
> sorry it took me so long to answer.
>I don't quite understand what you mean by "listen to music with the
>onboard chipset".
> Then set the value of the different items labeled "Capture Enum" to
> "Dock Mic A", and let me know which, if any, of those changes helps?
Next step is
to be able to have the sound in the headphone thru the dock plug
an other problem is that the sound level is very low : with Dock A Mic knob nearly at higher position, emutrix cursor near max position and mic level in Audacity to max position as well, the recording is below -24 on the vu meter.
Is there an other setting to do else where ?
Anyway thank you thousands times for your help !
Greetings
Philippe
Camilo Polymeris
<philipp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Camilo
>> sorry it took me so long to answer.
>
> don't worry about the delay of the answer, I've been waiting for 2 years for
> my emu to work on Linux !
>
>>I don't quite understand what you mean by "listen to music with the
>>onboard chipset".
>
> I was just saying that even to listen to music I was not using emu but the
> sound ports of my motherboard
>
Ok. Now I understand.
>> Then set the value of the different items labeled "Capture Enum" to
>> "Dock Mic A", and let me know which, if any, of those changes helps?
>
> I set DSP0 and DSP1 to Dock Mic A and I can capture in stereo in Audacity
> !!! This is very great !
>
Nice.
> Next step is
>
> to be able to have the sound in the headphone thru the dock plug
>
There is a column in emutrix labeled "Dock Phones", have you tried
sending your mix to that?
> an other problem is that the sound level is very low : with Dock A Mic knob
> nearly at higher position, emutrix cursor near max position and mic level in
> Audacity to max position as well, the recording is below -24 on the vu
> meter.
> Is there an other setting to do else where ?
>
Mmm. The emutrix "master" fader should only affect output. Check your
input PADs. I don't own a Dock so I can't try it myself, but other
users have reported it works.
> Anyway thank you thousands times for your help !
>
> Greetings
>
> Philippe
Your welcome, and thank you for your interest.
My development PC with EMU1212m card died (PSU, I think), and I
haven't had the time to fix it, so it may be a while, but eventually
I'll continue developing emutrix.
Greetings,
Camilo