Pyroman Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Alright, S/PDIF out works! It's on the Revo 5.1, but should work on all models. Killer News! Cant wait to try me aureon 5.1 sky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodriverwriter Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Analogue recording is now working as well (stereo)! Took some time to figure out what was causing distortion every 256 samples, but I needed to do setSampleOffset(32) so that the HAL keeps 32 frames behind the DMA engine. Next in line would be volume control, which brings me to a question to you guys. How (in OSX) would you select between for example line-in and mic-in? I don't see an interface in the driver API for that. Perhaps there is always an additional 'mixer' panel from the sound card manufacturer to do that (when using official drivers)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigmaris Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 In the Sound system preferences panel you can select a default input and output device from line out, headphones, mic in, line in etc, and choose what device to play system sounds through. There's also /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup.app for more advanced configuration. hopefully that's what you're looking for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodriverwriter Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Hmm.. ok. Seems that I have to look some more in the docs to find out how to add those input selections and receive events when the input selection has changed. Thanks for the info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexyhchu Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 2 audiodriverwriter.. I'm searching for my Terratec EWX 24/96 ... that would be good if your driver supports this card... appreciate for your hard work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodriverwriter Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 I managed to compile Audio Evolution 5 (my upcoming new audio sequencer) on OSX86 and changed my driver to support 8 channels of multi-channel sound and it worked! Core Audio splits the 8-channels to 4 stereo outs (perhaps you can configure that somewhere in the Audio prefs if you wish) and I successfully tested sending sound simultaneously from AE5 to the first two stereo outs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodriverwriter Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Ok, yesterday I have been preparing for a beta release. I now use a shell script to unload an old driver and load the new one, but I thought that would not be user-friendly enough. So I tried PackageMaker, but after installation it complains that the driver was not installed correctly. Using kextload on the installed driver gives me some warnings and errors about version numbers and ownership issues (I thought I solved those, apparently not), so I'm going to look into those tonight. If I succeed, you'll have a beta version tonight that should work for: Terratec: Aureon Sky 5.1, Space 7.1, Phase 22, Phase28 M-Audio: Revolution 5.1, Revolution 7.1 ESI: Juli@ I've tested it on the Revo 5.1 and Sky 5.1 myself. No other cards will work, so there is no need to try if you don't have these cards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArgenLant Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 audiodriverwriter good news! just 1 question: your driver will be open-source or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mengpo Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 That's a very news !!!! You did a very very good job ! it's been a while I was waiting for this driver but I wasn't able to develop it by myself ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodriverwriter Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 audiodriverwritergood news! just 1 question: your driver will be open-source or not? No, sorry, this is a closed source driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blink41 Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Thank you really much for your hard work, i don't know how you did it, but there's one thing i can say : you are amazing ! Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodriverwriter Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Thanks! Alright, showtime! If you have any of the above mentioned cards, please download the BETA Envy24HT driver at: http://www.audio-evolution.com/drivers/ Note, I don't have another OSX86 machine, so don't be surprised if this doesn't install or work. But I'd be glad to hear if it did! If you like my work, donations are always welcome at paypal AT audio-evolution.com! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezalfredo Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hi audiodriverwriter First, thank you for your hard work! Just would like to inform you that unfortunaly, it does not work on my hackintosh (ESI Juli@). I could not even reboot my pc. I had to remove Envy24HTPCIAudioDriver.kext to make it work again. I wish you will find the solution everybody is waiting for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodriverwriter Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Hi audiodriverwriter First, thank you for your hard work! Just would like to inform you that unfortunaly, it does not work on my hackintosh (ESI Juli@). I could not even reboot my pc. I had to remove Envy24HTPCIAudioDriver.kext to make it work again. I wish you will find the solution everybody is waiting for. Ok, thanks for testing! I will put my Juli@ in tomorrow to see if I can reproduce it. Could you please look in the system.log if you see anything related to the Envy24HT driver, like a text with 'subvendor'? Oh, and please state your OSX version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezalfredo Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 I'am on Leopard 10.5.5 and here are my logs: Oct 21 00:23:33 chezalfredo kernel[0]: Found ESI Juli@! Oct 21 00:23:33 chezalfredo kernel[0]: subvendor = 31305345 Oct 21 00:23:33 chezalfredo kernel[0]: Card init done! Oct 21 00:23:33 chezalfredo kernel[0]: Freq = 8 Everything seems to be OK in the logs, but as soon as I start Preferences>Sound, or a music app, it freezes. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodriverwriter Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Ok, I'll put in my Juli@ tonight. Anyone else tried it on a different card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buligosaure Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Hi ! Your driver works perfectly on my OS X86 machine (GA-EP35-DS3 / Mac OS X 10.5.5 iATKOS 4.1i) with a Revolution 5.1 card The volume is locked, but it's not really a problem, the sound quality seems to be perfect. In fact, it just works Thanks for your wonderful work ! Edit : sorry, my english is not perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodriverwriter Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 I'm glad to hear that it works for someone! I assume that it will work on Aureon Sky and Revo 5.1, since that's what I tested it with. I hope I can fix the Juli@ issue tonight. With my Juli@ though I can have freezes as well under Windows if I orient it for use with the quarter inch jacks. The other side works. Some electrical contact issue I assume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlad birdu Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Succesfuly installed on my system (Revolution 5.1). Yet I have a question : the driver has 5.1 sound support ? Altough in Midi setup I set the 5.1 speakers option and the noise test works Itunes and other applications gives sound only to the front speakers. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodriverwriter Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Succesfuly installed on my system (Revolution 5.1). Yet I have a question : the driver has 5.1 sound support ? Altough in Midi setup I set the 5.1 speakers option and the noise test works Itunes and other applications gives sound only to the front speakers. Thank you. To be honest, I have no clue how that works in OSX. All I know is that for the Revo 5.1, a 6-channel stream is used, which is why your noise/speaker test works. I assume that you play stereo sound in ITunes, which only should be heard through the front speakers anyway. Or are you playing some kind of multi-channel tracks from ITunes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlad birdu Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 You are right. I played stereo content. Got multichannel sound whit dvd audio content. I just assumed that after selecting the 5.1 option in the Midi setup some kind uf upmixing to 5.1 channles will happen . Thank you for your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kotman Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 OMG, it's work!!! I can't believe it. Two weeks ago it was a PCB-card, that occupied one slot, but now it's a working soundcard!!! Thank You for Your great work, Audiodriverwriter!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezalfredo Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Ok Audiodriverwriter I just got it working!!! It was my webcam mic that was freezing everything. The sound is very good. I can now play guitare with amplitube with very low latency Thank you so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audiodriverwriter Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Ok AudiodriverwriterI just got it working!!! It was my webcam mic that was freezing everything. The sound is very good. I can now play guitare with amplitube with very low latency Thank you so much. Good to hear! I actually put in my Juli@ yesterday and it worked, even with my quarter inch jacks at the back that never worked under Windows. There is something wrong with the sound though: when I stop playing a sample (for example in Audacity), the last part of the sample is repeated once. You can hear this very well on short sounds like system beeps, for example in the Terminal window. Do you also have this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorex Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Hello Audiodriverwriter, Tested yours drivers with Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 and it works! Tested stereo and multichannel audio. You will say that it should not work, but I did the old trick - by writing EEPROM data of Terratec Aureon Space 7.1 to Prodigy 7.1 Actually hardware are almost identical, only Prodigy 7.1 have coaxial S/PDIF outputs/inputs instead of optical outputs on Space 7.1 About the problems, I don't know way, but after your driver is loaded, some USB ports (front panel) stops working, after your kext is unloaded, USB ports starts working again. I think you can safely add Prodigy 7.1 to supported card list, EEPROM content of Prodigy 7.1: Offset#0=45; Offset#1=53; Offset#2=49; Offset#3=33; Offset#4=78; Offset#5=78; Offset#6=78; Offset#7=78; Offset#8=45; Offset#9=47; Offset#A=4F; Offset#B=53; Offset#C=59; Offset#D=53; Offset#E=FF; Offset#F=FF; Offset#10=FF; Offset#...=FF; Offset#1F=FF; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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