On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 11:34:32AM +1100, Bill Maidment wrote:> On 23/12/2019 11:06 am, Fred Smith wrote: > > >I can find no way to do it with pavucontrol, nor the default mate > >sound tool. > > In my SL7 Mate system I use the Hardware and Output tabs in > System->Preferences->Hardware->Sound > > Cheers > BillThanks bill. But nothing I do there causes output. As far as I can tell, the hardware tab just shows you what HW it recognizes, you can't actually make any settings there. In pavucontrol, I can see the from the audio activity bar that the audio is getting into it, in the input tab. in the recording tab I can see it too, but there's nothing in the playback tab that makes it come out the speakers. :( Fred -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge -----------------------------
On 12/22/19 6:01 PM, Fred Smith wrote:> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 11:34:32AM +1100, Bill Maidment wrote: >> On 23/12/2019 11:06 am, Fred Smith wrote: >> >>> I can find no way to do it with pavucontrol, nor the default mate >>> sound tool. >> In my SL7 Mate system I use the Hardware and Output tabs in >> System->Preferences->Hardware->Sound >> >> Cheers >> Bill > Thanks bill. > > But nothing I do there causes output. > > As far as I can tell, the hardware tab just shows you what HW it > recognizes, you can't actually make any settings there. > > In pavucontrol, I can see the from the audio activity bar that > the audio is getting into it, in the input tab. in the recording > tab I can see it too, but there's nothing in the playback tab that > makes it come out the speakers. :( > > FredI do something similar to what you're trying to do when I digitize my vinyl LPs.? I take output from my amp/turntable into my sound card and use Audacity to digitize it and write an appropriate sound file.? I also monitor the sound using Audacity by telling it to also route the sound to my speakers.? The point of all of this is that I think you need a piece of software (Audacity is probably overkill) to receive the input and play it back via the output.? You don't mention any "playback" software. Cheers, Dave -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty." -- Benjamin Franklin
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 5:23 PM David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:> I do something similar to what you're trying to do when I digitize my > vinyl LPs. I take output from my amp/turntable into my sound card and > use Audacity to digitize it and write an appropriate sound file. I also > monitor the sound using Audacity by telling it to also route the sound > to my speakers. The point of all of this is that I think you need a > piece of software (Audacity is probably overkill) to receive the input > and play it back via the output. You don't mention any "playback" > software. >on many analog sound cards, the output mixer has a 'monitor' channel for the input mixer, so if you crank up the Line IN on the input mixer, then turn up the 'monitor' output on the output mixer, you should get passthrough audio without any software getting involved in moving the sound in realtime. this is much less likely to work with a seperate USB audio source, as thats not directly connected to your output. ditto it won't work with USB speakers or headphones, as they are not directly connected to the source. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 06:22:58PM -0700, David G. Miller wrote:> On 12/22/19 6:01 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 11:34:32AM +1100, Bill Maidment wrote: > >>On 23/12/2019 11:06 am, Fred Smith wrote: > >> > >>>I can find no way to do it with pavucontrol, nor the default mate > >>>sound tool. > >>In my SL7 Mate system I use the Hardware and Output tabs in > >>System->Preferences->Hardware->Sound > >> > >>Cheers > >>Bill > >Thanks bill. > > > >But nothing I do there causes output. > > > >As far as I can tell, the hardware tab just shows you what HW it > >recognizes, you can't actually make any settings there. > > > >In pavucontrol, I can see the from the audio activity bar that > >the audio is getting into it, in the input tab. in the recording > >tab I can see it too, but there's nothing in the playback tab that > >makes it come out the speakers. :( > > > >Fred > I do something similar to what you're trying to do when I digitize > my vinyl LPs.? I take output from my amp/turntable into my sound > card and use Audacity to digitize it and write an appropriate sound > file.? I also monitor the sound using Audacity by telling it to also > route the sound to my speakers.? The point of all of this is that I > think you need a piece of software (Audacity is probably overkill) > to receive the input and play it back via the output.? You don't > mention any "playback" software.Yeah, I've done that with Audacity, when recording I can use its monitor function to feed audio to the computer's audio out. And I'll be doing that again in the not-far-distant future, as I have hundreds of LPs around here, at least some of which I'll want to digitize. I have one other suggestion from another responder to check out before I fall back to doing this. thanks for the idea, though! Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever." ------------------------------- Isaiah 9:7 (niv) ------------------------------