Comment 41 for bug 1742499
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| Daniel Schürmann (daschuer) wrote Re: meter for Record/Broadcast input | #41 |
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> If the signal is clipping and Mixxx's meters do not show it, then the meters are broken.
Not necessarily. The Signal can clip inside the external mixer. Than it can be revelled to lets say -6 dB of full analogue scale and passed though the sound card to mixxx. Mixxx VU meter will see the clipping signal but levelled to the green region. No clipping light is lit.
Actually the mixxx VU meter cannot even distinguish a clipping signal from a signal which is properly levelled to ADC full scale both have samples with value 65535.
> Huh? Why would someone use a valuable pair of sound card outputs and an input channel on their mixer for this instead of routing a deck to the mixer?
Because in this case he can PFL samplers and use the library preview deck. (.. and the new Recording/
> The mixer already has its own PFL bus. Using two different PFL buses, one in software and one in hardware would be confusing.
In case of Mixxx PLF, the hardware mixer need to enable PLF on the Mixxx headphone channel. This is IMHO not too confusing to be a valid alternative.