Re: KMix volume sliders

[Tim <ignored_mailbox yahoo com au>]

Tim:
>> You wouldn't actually want a linear volume control, you'd start to turn
>> the control, then the sound would jump out at you as it suddenly gets
>> very loud.  A logarithm *is* a desirable trait (our hearing isn't
>> linear), though some seem to have peculiar characteristics.

Marko Vojinovic:
> I agree on that, but what I would like is the "perceptually linear"
> behavior, like with all other sliders. The 'Wave surround' or 'wave
> center', for example, behave just as I expect, but PCM does not.

I can't say that I've noticed differences between sources (other than
some being just too damn quiet overall), though I do believe you.  My
sound card is rather simple, without a lot of options.  I don't have
many to compare against each other.  

I wonder whether you get different responses whether you're using
software or hardware mixing?  If you have a sound card that can do its
own mixing, its response to controls might be different (automatically
doing a log response to a linear control change, or expecting that
controls give a log control signal).  More so if some things the volume
sliders control are done in hardware, the rest in software.

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