Re: [Alsa-user] Panning with emu10k1 sequencer?

[Jaroslav K. <pe...@su...>]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Carlo E. Prelz wrote:

> 	Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] Panning with emu10k1 sequencer?
> 	Date: Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:55:43PM +0200
> 
> Quoting Takashi Iwai (ti...@su...):
> 
> > > > > Hello. I have a problem: I have a SBLive! card, of which I must use
> > > > > the wavetable synthesizer. Pmidi works wonderfully, but it seems not
> > > > > to honor controller 10 changes, that should move the stereo position
> > > > > of one specific midi channel from right to left. Volume controls
> > > > > (controller 7) work OK.
> > > > 
> > > > Hmm, I don't have this problem.  Could you try the latest alsa-driver
> > > > & libs?
> > > 
> > > Ummm... That is what I am doing. 0.9.0beta6. Is there some kind of
> > > very obvious operation (when loading modules, or when configuring
> > > ALSA) that I have missed? It is easy to lose yourself in the huge
> > > amount of controls that are provided by this card... 
> > 
> > The emu10k1 wavetable stuff has been changed since beta6.
> > Please try cvs code once.
> > Or wait until Jaroslav releases beta7.  I guess it'll be soon :)
> 
> I waited to answer until I had the time to try new code. Now beta7 is
> out. I recompiled server, libs, utils and pmidi. Still, it seems that
> pan info is ignored. I have this midi piece with 14 voices, and each
> voice receives a different #10 controller value right at the
> beginning. Well, when listened at the headphones, I still have all
> voices in the center.
> 
> Plain line in sends out perfect stereo output. 
> 
> Suggestions? Can any of the 170 (!) controls be twiddled
> appropriately? Maybe those obscure 32x "send routing" ones... Or
> module parameters, maybe. I expect it has to be something simple...

These controls are unrelated to the wavetable MIDI synthesis.

> There is also a new thing happening... The "music playback volume"
> control (#5), which influences sequencer output,  now totally silences
> output if not set to 100. 

Fixed in CVS.

						Jaroslav

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