[WORKAROUND] 5.1/7.1 Analog Inputs Replaced By HDMI
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 6:04 am
Workaround: I got myself a Marantz SR5008, which is the cheapest I can get with multi-channel inputs. Thank you, Marantz! I've had to go for monthly financing, which is unfortunate, but I'm very happy with my home theater receiver.)
(90 views and no help? Oh well. I'm getting me a Marantz SR5008 Home Theater Receiver since anything under $900 with HDMI 1.4a won't come with multi-channel inputs. It seems no one is interested in such a unique setup.
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To moderators: I'm unsure whether this thread should be placed in here or not so this forum section will be my best guess. The thread can be moved if it does not belong here.
Today's home theater receivers have done away with analog multi-channel inputs and my only choice is using an HDMI cable coming from my Radeon HD 7660D chip that can send out LPCM 7.1 output to a receiver. By doing so, I bypass my audio interface altogether, so I cannot use an analog input in my Echo Gina3G. I've had to kill off Cadence by process ID and jackdbus but I cannot open Cadence anymore and I will restart my computer soon.
Without Gina3G (2-in/6-out) involved, I once tried selecting HDMI audio in the output drop-down list and it worked since it's connected to my TV with 48kHz sampling rate. It outputs in two channels, which is expected.
With that in mind, does ALSA fully support HDMI multichannel output? If so, and if anyone are using proprietary nVidia or AMD graphics drivers, do you get 8 channels when connected to the 7.1 receiver? Or do you get 6 if you have a 5.1 receiver?
As for music creation, I only do MIDI work using a couple of samples and synths, so I'm not using analog in for recording external instruments. The only thing I have Audio Technical AT2020 (XLR) use for is video commentary and I do want to have 2 XLR connections when available just for flexibility. In that case, studio monitors aren't important to me since I'm not doing any professional recording and I can use my Sennheiser HD 280 Pro for that when plugged into a home theater receiver. Having the latest HDMI standards is nice if I want to upgrade to 4K TV and hoping that DPI can easily be adjusted with newer version of Ubuntu (14.04, perhaps?).
I want to provide sources about A/V receivers omitting analog multichannel inputs:
A/V Receiver With PC Multichannel Analog Inputs
new receivers leaving out 6/8 channel analog inputs
Update: I've had to delete .config/jack folder in order to start Cadence. I cannot choose Gina3g as input and HDMI audio as output. It will cause Cadence to freeze or not start at all. It's either Gina3g or HDMI audio but I will leave this off to a different thread.
(90 views and no help? Oh well. I'm getting me a Marantz SR5008 Home Theater Receiver since anything under $900 with HDMI 1.4a won't come with multi-channel inputs. It seems no one is interested in such a unique setup.
)To moderators: I'm unsure whether this thread should be placed in here or not so this forum section will be my best guess. The thread can be moved if it does not belong here.
Today's home theater receivers have done away with analog multi-channel inputs and my only choice is using an HDMI cable coming from my Radeon HD 7660D chip that can send out LPCM 7.1 output to a receiver. By doing so, I bypass my audio interface altogether, so I cannot use an analog input in my Echo Gina3G. I've had to kill off Cadence by process ID and jackdbus but I cannot open Cadence anymore and I will restart my computer soon.
Without Gina3G (2-in/6-out) involved, I once tried selecting HDMI audio in the output drop-down list and it worked since it's connected to my TV with 48kHz sampling rate. It outputs in two channels, which is expected.
With that in mind, does ALSA fully support HDMI multichannel output? If so, and if anyone are using proprietary nVidia or AMD graphics drivers, do you get 8 channels when connected to the 7.1 receiver? Or do you get 6 if you have a 5.1 receiver?
As for music creation, I only do MIDI work using a couple of samples and synths, so I'm not using analog in for recording external instruments. The only thing I have Audio Technical AT2020 (XLR) use for is video commentary and I do want to have 2 XLR connections when available just for flexibility. In that case, studio monitors aren't important to me since I'm not doing any professional recording and I can use my Sennheiser HD 280 Pro for that when plugged into a home theater receiver. Having the latest HDMI standards is nice if I want to upgrade to 4K TV and hoping that DPI can easily be adjusted with newer version of Ubuntu (14.04, perhaps?).
I want to provide sources about A/V receivers omitting analog multichannel inputs:
A/V Receiver With PC Multichannel Analog Inputs
new receivers leaving out 6/8 channel analog inputs
Update: I've had to delete .config/jack folder in order to start Cadence. I cannot choose Gina3g as input and HDMI audio as output. It will cause Cadence to freeze or not start at all. It's either Gina3g or HDMI audio but I will leave this off to a different thread.