Multimedia :: audacity freezes when editing large files

I have instances here where certain soundcards have
some finicky settings, ports, or are just stubborn.

My SB128 works flawlessly with stock DSL.
My onboard 6 ch super-duper soundchip only
works well with alsa, not oss drivers..
Even worse with my Delta 1010 or Delta 66.
They are ALSA only, no OSS support at all..

Have you tried loading alsa, and using the alsamixer?

What soundcard or chipset are you working with?
I find that the type of soundcard makes a big difference
to the audio response and performance of Linux/DSL ..

73
ke4nt

Quote (ke4nt1 @ July 01 2005,18:02)

I have instances here where certain soundcards have
some finicky settings, ports, or are just stubborn.

What soundcard or chipset are you working with?
I find that the type of soundcard makes a big difference
to the audio response and performance of Linux/DSL ..

73
ke4nt

Ah, that may be my whole problem; my current main PC is a cheap but fast Compaq Presario S5000NX with an onboard soundcard.

< whine > but xmms sounds GREAT when it plays my MP3s and I've never had any problem with audio in multimedia playback! It isn't fair!!! < /whine >

I'd prefer a desktop for audio editing, but maybe I'll have more luck recording files on my laptop. I know what you mean about picky soundcards, since my best crappy OEM machine has a Sound Blaster Live! WDM card which refuses to do anything with any Debian-Based distro even with the ALSA drivers. It's running Slackware until I can track down a new sound card, but I'm having even more problems with audio editing over there than I am on my DSL box, where at least I'm making SOME progress thanks to Mikshaw.

I haven't found the input volume on wmix yet; I'm running DSL 1.0.1 until I break it but I will be putting whatever's freshest on the lappy.

*edit; it's a WDM series, not a WMD series....whatever....

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