Re: Using Nama (was: Re: Nama build issues (was: Re: Interactive mode, cut &) paste)
Joel Roth <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.audio.ecasound.general |
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| Message-ID | <20121202054420.GA23300@zinc> |
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 11:24:16PM +0100, Lars Bj??rndal wrote: > Hi, and thank you very much for all your help! Now, I've successuflly > built Nama, and I can start it in text mode. I've created a project > and imported a WAV file. When pressing SPACE to play, I get the > following error message: "Cannot start. Engine is not configured." > I have the package ecasound-2.7.2-1.fc17.ccrma.i686 installed. What's > the problem, do you think? Hi Lars, First, all this assumes a working ALSA or JACK setup. You can check if Ecasound is okay by playing a WAV file. $ ecasound -i somefile.wav -o alsa,default When running Nama, even without importing a .WAV file, you should be able to create a track and record to it. The command nama> add vocals should lead to a setup to get you a track that records from your soundcard (channel 1), and provides a monitor output to the soundcard. Before attempting to start the engine (in response to the SPACE bar or user start command), Nama runs the Ecasound 'cs-connected' command. Your particular error is because Ecasound returned false, i.e. no chain setup is connected, i.e. the engine is not configured. Nama spits out a new Ecasound configuration file and tells Ecasound to load it at every change in setup, for example when you create a new track, or change a track from REC to MON. You can view Nama/Ecasound's audio network in several ways: show_tracks, show Nama's track view chain_setup, chains The current chain setup file fs, cs, es Various Ecasound status commands Hope this helps... Joel > Regards, > Lars -- Joel Roth -- Joel Roth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: DESIGN Expert tips on starting your parallel project right. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Ecasound-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecasound-list