21-05-25, 04:41 -
Hi Sampleboxers thanks for having me. Ill try to be a good boy 😎. Ive been using Samplerbox with a raspi3b + The old Cirrus DAC hat + Nektar gx61 to fill the space inside an old gutted Estey reed organ since 2020. I recently set about upgrading and trying to improve the sound quality so I dowloaded your feb 2022 image and booted it. Problem number 1: the cirrus hat stopped working. I had to #sudo update && sudo upgrade to fix it. I also installed mc to make navigating the filesystem easier. I'm still seeing messages saying "Alsamixer not setup so no hardware volume control" despite the fact that alsamixer starts without hesitation from the command prompt.
The main problem I'm having is that I have tried to improve the sound quality using audacity (on a different machine)to normalise the samples down (and up. The pipe organ samples in particular) to -6db. Samplerbox no longer recognises them! I cannot get my head around what the actual requirements are and how to satisfy them. The instructions say a sample rate of 16 or 24 bits is required. I think this actually means sample depth. At 44.1khz a 16 bit stereo sample depth gives a sample rate of 1.411MHz. iIn reality this is a sample depth of 32bits 2x16). Can anyone make this a bit easier to understand?
Regards
Peter
The bush
Western Australia
The main problem I'm having is that I have tried to improve the sound quality using audacity (on a different machine)to normalise the samples down (and up. The pipe organ samples in particular) to -6db. Samplerbox no longer recognises them! I cannot get my head around what the actual requirements are and how to satisfy them. The instructions say a sample rate of 16 or 24 bits is required. I think this actually means sample depth. At 44.1khz a 16 bit stereo sample depth gives a sample rate of 1.411MHz. iIn reality this is a sample depth of 32bits 2x16). Can anyone make this a bit easier to understand?
Regards
Peter
The bush
Western Australia