Re: [Studio-users] Not able to record

[Kevin C. <ke...@do...>]

On 26 February 2003 at 9:07, Nick Bailey <n.j...@el...> wrote:

> My colleague Carola Boehm over in music is in the market for a
> reasonable soundcard for her SMP Linux box.

        I've got my Hootech http://www.audiencedp.com/st_xg.htm
        card working with SoundStudio for recording, playback,
        and with my CD player.  I have yet to try input/output
        through SPDIF, but ALSA recognizes those ports and lets
        me (un)mute them and twiddle their volumes.  A few
        friends of mine have hard disk recorders (I'm still on
        ADAT) with SPDIF, and I need to interoperate with one
        of those to test my card further.  I have no reason to
        believe that it won't work at this point.  I'll try to
        remember to post a note here when I confirm/deny that it
        works.  I had a bit of trouble actually ordering my card.
        No retailer carries them, not even on-line retailers.
        The Hoontech website lead me to the two distributors in
        the USA, one on each coast.  I ordered directly from the
        distributor closest to me and had just what I ordered a
        couple days later.

> Also, I have a secret plan to try and build a wireless,
> diskless, fanless (and therefore silent) Linux box for my HiFi
> rack at home (it would really just be an X/audio terminal for
> the hovercraft in my office). I was thinking of spending say
> US$500 on a studio-grade D->A, and getting SPDIF out of some
> sound card or other. Long term plan. Probably won't happen :)

	Why go diskless?  For the quiet?  The Redhat/Compaq machine
	under my desk at work has a disk in it to allow it to boot
	and become a display client for my real account on a 4CPU
	Sparc box in the server room.  After booting, the disk spins
	down and the box is silent.  In fact, it's so quiet in my
	cube that I hear conversations in other cubicles around me
	far too clearly.  Thank goodness the CD player in the PC
	works.  :^)

> On the recording front, it took a *long* time to realise
> that you had to use the -D option with the command-line alsa
> recorder to make the midiman look at the SPDIF. Clicking
> buttons on the mixer didn't help.  (Documentation? ...)

	Thanks for the tip!