Re: [xwax-devel] New user and Serato CV01 control vinyls

[Patrick S. <psh...@bo...>]

Yves Cochard wrote:
> I think you're right about the phono-level that enter a line one. But... 
> it's a serato box, that means, it has been designed to be plugged in 
> directly with the turntable! So the phono input is actually really a 
> phono input. :-/
>
> Then, it might be that the signal is digitally amplified, but I don't 
> think so, as there is a direct through which give a phono level output.
>
> I don't find any mixer for this card... eventhough that might be the issue.
>
> That might be related to the alsa drivers, as the serato driver for 
> linux is quite new as I heard. My alsa stuff looks to be compiled into 
> the kernel of the fedora 9, and i don't know how to find out which 
> version of alsa has been implemented in it.
>
>   

cat /proc/asound/version


> The only thing i see now is to get a newer kernel or to patch another 
> one which hasn't alsa compile in it. (as proposed there: 
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~jkburges/xwax/xwax_serato_quickstart.html 
> ). Will try that out as soon as I find some time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yves
>
> Tyson Henning a écrit :
>   
>> Sounds to me like you've got a phono-level signal coming into your
>> soundcard. You're going to have to amplify it if you want it to be
>> stronger. A cheap phono amp will do the trick, or software
>> amplification. It's alsi possible the input is line but the level is
>> really low on your soundcard, so you may be able to fix that by
>> fiddling with ALSA's mixers.
>>
>> ~Y
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Yves Cochard <yve...@gm...> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hello again,
>>>
>>> Thats a bit weird, I migrate to Fedora 9 and tried again xwax. After
>>> sruggling again two minutes with the Vera*.ttf things (ln -s did the trick)
>>> and with the library libSDL-ttf which wasn't included with the SDL one
>>> (strange for fedora 9, isn't it?), I got my tender xwaw to open up again.
>>>
>>> Works fine with my phase-usb interface (only one input), but not with the
>>> serato thing... the device looks to be well recongnised; through aplay -l:
>>> card 2: SL1 [SL-1], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
>>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>> card 2: SL1 [SL-1], device 1: USB Audio [USB Audio #1]
>>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>>
>>> But I can't have a good input signal! I only get some (not lot) timecode
>>> sample going through to xwax if I... spin or forward the serato vynil very
>>> very fast... otherwise, no movement of the track in xwax. The signal appear
>>> to be very very low... If I spin the vynil as fast as I can, the signal got
>>> around 10% big as the usual one (at normal speed, it reech maybe let's say
>>> 1%).
>>>
>>> What the hell is going on guys? Is that a phono/line thing?
>>>
>>> Help! I'm lost...
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> Yves
>>>     
>>>       
>
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