kmix - Master volume is an INPUT device ?

[Christian Esken]

On Saturday 22 November 2003 12:39, Pavel Troller wrote:
> Hi!
>   I have a question regarding new kmix:
>   It's fine that the sliders are now grouped into "input" and "output"
> tabs. However, it seems illogical to me, that the Master Volume slider is
> located in the "input" tab instead of the "output" one, because it's the
> one used to control the overall volume of the soundcard output and it's
> logically on the whole end of the mixing chain (at least IMHO, please
> correct me if I'm wrong). The same applies for the IGain slider, which is
> placed in the "output" tab, although explicitly being called INPUT Gain...
>   I have two soundcards installed, so two mixers, one is ICEnsemble 1232
> from an onboard soundcard and the other is Tritech 28602 from SB EMU10K,
> and both exhibit this behaviour.
>   I'm not filing it as a bug because I'm not sure it IS a bug, maybe I'm
> wrong...
>   Is there anybody to give some explanation of this ?

Answer is easy: Every device that has recording capability (more precisely: a 
capture switch or a capture volume) is on the "Input" Tab. For example my 
both soundcards have their Master(s) on the Output Tab.

I agree to you that it looks illogical. This whole control grouping/ordering 
stuff is a work in progress.

Chris
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