sound works...with a few wierd issues

**litspliff** · September 21st, 2011

is this a standard behavior for ubuntu?
i had an older ubuntu system with the same problem.
it doesn't seem to be hardware-related, as the older system had a high-end card.
i'm now running windows on it just so i can have a proper recording device in the studio.

Originally Posted by lidex

OK. Disable the loopback setting.

already done. the line noise was giving me a headache.

Originally Posted by lidex

You have a lot of elements.

i believe the board has a bunch of jumper pins for more input/output dongles.
i will only use the panel connectors until i get the basics sorted out.

Originally Posted by lidex

What jack are you plugged into and is it line-level or mic input?

all of my input devices are balanced, so i use the line-in (blue).
the mic input (pink) has the same problem, however.

nothing is muted in alsamixer.

i only hear the inputs when using the loopback.

multitracking works great in audacity except i can't hear the track i'm recording until playback.

**litspliff** · November 30th, 2011

bump.
using debian now on antother machine with the same motherboard.
same BS behavior.

curiously, i have no problems when using Xubuntu, but ubuntu and debian totallly fail.

**cheryljosie** · December 17th, 2011

I had these same issues. I cannot remember how I solved them, but I do know that I upgraded to 11.10 along the way, so maybe that is the solution I found?

I thought the problem was that I had two sound cards, one internal and one external. I installed firmware for the emu1212m but that did not solve the problem.

Another weird sound issue I am having is that the analog output from my system is brickwalled to zero output at 9khz, which is startling and very odd. I tried both sound cards and two different amplifiers. It seems like there is some basic configuration issue but I have seen nothing on the boards about it.

I have not been able to solve it using the Jack daemon. I tried changing the sample rate from 44.1khz to 48khz and that definitely took hold (the pitch of everything shifted upward) so apparently the sample rate or sound system clock or whatever is working fine.

I have also had severe learning curve problems using Jack control panel. I have not even bothered to install it after the upgrade because it was so frustrating to work with. Either I am a complete ignoramus, or there is something basically wrong with the user interface as well as the output from my sound card.

Very puzzling and very frustrating. I switched to Linux to get away from these types of problems!

**litspliff** · December 17th, 2011

i posted about this in the debian forum as well. no response yet.

my solution was to install xubuntu to a usb drive.
now i just boot fron the usb when i want to use it for recording.

i find it odd that this works in xubuntu, but doesnt work on ubuntu or debian.

**lidex** · December 28th, 2011

Originally Posted by litspliff

i posted about this in the debian forum as well. no response yet.

my solution was to install xubuntu to a usb drive.
now i just boot fron the usb when i want to use it for recording.

i find it odd that this works in xubuntu, but doesnt work on ubuntu or debian.

Seems like a pulse audio bug then. Had any one tried disabling it first?

Try running this command in a terminal for 10.04 or later:

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