Re: [Audacity-devel] audio i/o rewrite committed

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

Dave Fancella wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:26 pm, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> 
>>* the mixer toolbar.  I thought Dominic might want to visit this,
>>  I don't know much about how it should work.
> 
> Mixer toolbar:  Is that the new toolbar that has output volume, input volume, 
> and a combobox for selecting input devices?  If so, then I can confirm it 
> doesn't work.  :)

Actually, portmixer needs to be rewritten to work with v19, too, but
for those of us still using v18, I should be able to get the mixer
toolbar working again shortly...

>>Beat on it, get it to crash!  Spare no punches.  :)
> 
> Apply an effect (in this case a LADSPA plugin), then hit "play".  Then choose 
> "Undo".  :)  I have no clue which part of the code caused the segfault, just 
> that it segfaulted.

Congrats!  A real bug.  :)

> Also, I'm having a problem with clipping.  Should I adjust the gain down for 
> each track for clipping or is that supposed to be addressed by the mixer 
> toolbar?  Now would probably be a good time, also, to make the output volume 
> slider move the individual gain sliders, which is what Dominic was 
> recommending, iirc.  Since it has to be dealt with anyway.  ;)

You're supposed to adjust track gains.  The mixer toolbar controls
hardware (or OS-level) mixing.  If it clips within Audacity, it's
too late by the time the OS sees it.

- Dominic

> I'll let you know if I come up with anything else, I haven't tried recording 
> yet.  :)  (It's on the list, but I'm removing ProTux off my to-do list this 
> week, hopefully forever: I really don't feel like building another audio 
> program just to decide it doesn't work for me)  So far, though, it's been 
> extremely stable.  Still some skipping from time to time, but to be honest, 
> not noticeably more or less than ecasound's skipping.  Possible more just 
> because of the gui stuff, but I just can't tell.  The real test is if the 
> skipping is the kind that screws up recording.  If it's not, and it's not in 
> the final mix, no problems (other than aesthetic problems, but I haven't yet 
> used an audio app on this slow machine that didn't skip).
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
>>Josh
>>
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