DBMIXER(1)						      General Commands Manual							DBMIXER(1)

NAME

       dbmixer - Mixer application for the DBMix sound system

SYNOPSIS

       dbmixer

DESCRIPTION

       dbmixer	is  an	advanced mixer application to control various audio channels.  It is part of the DBMix sound system and requires a running
       dbfsd.  The user interface is devided into four parts: the channel boxes, one for each channel, on the top left, the crossfader box  below,
       the sample editor box right of the channel boxes, and the controls box to the far right.  Each of them is described in detail below.

CHANNEL BOX COMPONENTS

       The  list  box  on  top	assigns each channel to a particular input device.  Pause and Mute buttons below are pretty self-descriptive.  Cue
       redirects the channel to the cueing device and is only enabled if dbfsd has been started with the -c option.  The buttons labelled Once and
       Loop  act  in  conjunction  with the sample editor (see below).	They play or loop respectively a short, pre-recorded sample on the current
       channel.  To adjust the channel's volume, move the vertical slider up and down.	(The number on top of the slider is a bit  misleading--100
       means  absolute	silence  while it shows 0 when the volume is at its maximum.)  A horizontal slider controls the pitch of the sound output.
       The row of buttons below resets the speed to 100 per cent (middle button), or alters the speed by five per cent in either  direction  (left
       and  right  buttons).  The bottom row, finally, comprises of the Pitch Sync buttons.  While being pressed, they temporarily slow down (-S),
       pause (.]S[.), or speed up (S+) the sound.  The purpose of these three buttons is to assist in beat matching:  First use the pitch  control
       to adjust two songs to the same speed, the use the sync buttons to match the beats.

CROSSFADING BOX COMPONENTS

       The  crossfader comprises of three parts, the fader slider itself, and the two channel selectors, one on each side of the fader.  To cross-
       fade, first select the channels to fade between in the channel selectors.  Then move the fader slider to the desired position, or push  one
       of  the	autofade  buttons  to the right.  < fades to the left, / centres the fader, and > fades to the right.	A slider labelled Autofade
       Spd. controls the autofade speed.  It is actually located in the controls box, but belongs to the crossfader, really.  The  value  of  this
       slider is the fade time from end to end in seconds.

       To  either side of the crossfader channel selectors there are buttons that say Punch.  Doing so sets the volume for the selected crossfader
       channel to maximum.  When the button is released, the channel volume returns to its previous value.  This is usefull for quickly overlaying
       soundbytes from one stream over another.

SAMPLE EDITOR BOX COMPONENTS

       The  list box on top connects the sample recorder to one of the channels.  The Load and Save buttons (re-)store samples on disk.  To record
       a sample from the selected channel, press the Record button.  Press again to stop recording.  Max recording time is ten seconds.  The start
       and end sliders are used to fine tune the start and end times of the sample; values on top of the sliders the time offsets in seconds.

       One  can  copy  a sample to another channel using the Copy Sample To button and its associated list box.  First select the channel from the
       list, then click the button.

CONTROLS BOX COMPONENTS

       The green light on top turns red whenever samples are clipped in the output.  This is most likely to occur during a crossfade.  Next is the
       Mic Talkover button.  It cuts all regular output channels to one third of their volume to allow microphone input to be heard.  See dbin (1)
       to learn how to enable microphone input.  Cue Split places cue output in the right cup of the headphones, and  the  master  output  in  the
       left.

       The  Balance  slider  controls  the volume ratio of left vs. right in the master output, while the Main and Cue sliders allow to adjust the
       soundcard volume for the master and cue devices, respectively.  Autofade Spd. actually belongs to the crossfader and is described above.

KNOWN BUGS

       dbmixer refuses to start if the maximum number of clients are already running.  In this case, close one of your clients, start dbmixer, and
       then restart your last client.

SEE ALSO

       dbcat(1), dbin(1), dbfsd(1), dbmix(7).

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was	written  by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).  It is
       heavily based on DBMix's README file written by Robert Michael S Dean.

								  August 8, 2002							DBMIXER(1)