From: Szegedi Csaba <szcs@eik.bme.hu>
To: ultra@pf.jcu.cz
Subject: Re: Question 2/3: MASTER=CD?!


Hi!

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Trent Piepho wrote:

> Because it's the only way you can record from the CD inputs!  Since lots of
> people want to record from CD, it goes there.  If it was on the master volume
> channel all kinds of people would be asking how to record from cd.

Okay, I understand but doing the thing in this way a bit Microsoft-ish,
don't you think?
I'd prefer the master input above the master channel not the cd channel,
and some lines in a README file describing how the channels are connected
in the codec. (Perhaps an ASCII graphic showing the inside structure of
the mixer.)

Csaba


PS.:
I don't want my words to fall on stony ground so I make the ASCII stuff:


                              +--------+             +------+
     +------------------------|        | GAIN        |RECORD|
     |       +----------------| RECORD |--/-+--------| ADC  |
     |       |         +------|SELECTOR|    |        +------+
     |       |         |    +-|        |    |     
     |       |         |    | +--------+    \     
     |       |         |    +----------------|------------------+
     |       |         |                    /                   |
     |       |         |                    |                   |
     |       |         |                    |                   |
     |       |         |                    |LOOP +-+           |
     |       |         |                    +-/---| | PCM  +-+  |
     |       |         |        +--------+        |+|--/---| |  |MASTER
     |       |         |        |PLAYBACK|--------| |      | |--+--/----LINE
     |       |         |        |  DAC   |        +-+      | |          OUT
     |       |         |        +--------+                 | |
     |       | +-----+ |                             SYNTH | |
     |       | |SYNTH|-+-------------------------------/---| |
     |  LINE | +-----+                               LINE  |+|
     |  IN --+-----------------------------------------/---| |
     |                                                MIC  | |
MIC -+-------------------------------------------------/---| |
                                                      CD   | |
 CD ---------------------------------------------------/---| |
                                                           +-+
