[ecasound] Urgent: Need help regarding ecasound-mixing:: Someone please reply

Email: hemant_joshius@email-addr-hidden

> Hi,

> I was looking for someone who knows about the ecasound package.
> I desperately need to make it work for one of my projects.
> What I am looking for is to have my recording and want to add a
> background that is coming from a small file that can go in a loop.
>
>
> I just want to take that and mix the loop file in the background
> so that it repeats for the entire duration of my recording.
>
> Here is my short description of the problem. I will highly appreciate
> if you can suggest me command line for ecasound to make it work.
>
> Assuming I have a small 20s long audio file(f_small.wav) and a 10 minutes long audio file
> (f_long.wav).
> I want to mix them in such a way that the f_small.wav repeats (loops) in the background for the
> entire duration of f_long.wav (10 min).
>
> How to make it work.
>
> I used
> ../ecasound -a:1 -i f_long.wav -a:2 -i f_small.wav -tl -a:all -o mixed_new.wav
>
> It just waits and never finishes:
>
>
> ****************************************************************************
> * ecasound v2.3.5 (C) 1997-2004 Kai Vehmanen
> ****************************************************************************
> - [ Session created ] ------------------------------------------------------
> - [ Chainsetup created (cmdline) ] -----------------------------------------
> (eca-chainsetup-parser) Note! Interpreting option background.wav as -i:background.wav.
> (eca-chainsetup-parser) Looping enabled. Length of input objects will be used to set the loop
> point.
> - [ Connecting chainsetup ] ------------------------------------------------
> (eca-chainsetup) 'nonrt' buffering mode selected.
> (eca-chainsetup) Audio object "med.wav", mode "read".
> (audio-io) Format: s16_le, channels 1, srate 8000, interleaved.
> (eca-chainsetup) Audio object "background.wav", mode "read".
> (audio-io) Format: u8, channels 1, srate 22050, interleaved.
> (eca-chainsetup) Audio object "mixed_new.wav", mode "read/write".
> (audio-io) Format: s16_le, channels 2, srate 8000, interleaved.
> (eca-chainsetup-parser) Setting loop point to 602.25.
> - [ Chainsetup connected ] -------------------------------------------------
> (eca-controller) Connected chainsetup: "command-line-setup".
> - [ Controller/Starting batch processing ] ---------------------------------
> - [ Engine init - Driver start ] -------------------------------------------
> <<<<<<<<Hangs here, forever>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>
>
>
>
> What am I doing wrong.
>
>
> Thanks
> Hemant
>
>
>
> --- Adam Linson <adam.linson@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > >ecasound -Md:rawmidi,/dev/snd/midiC1D0 -i 1.wav -ei:100
> > -km:1,75,125,81,1 -o alsa
> > >
> > >However, if I start this a second time with another file and a different
> > >midi controller number, it does not work. I guess this is because only
> > >one app can open rawmidi.
> >
> > this does indeed work! you just need to use a different MIDI device,
> > but you can use aconnect to map a hardware controller to two separate
> > virmidi ports (your hardware messages will be sent to 2 virtual
> > devices -- its like a virtual MIDI-thru, with, for example,
> > /dev/snd/midiC2D0 and /dev/snd/midiC2D1 receiving the same messages
> > that you were previously sending to /dev/snd/midiC1D0).
> >
> > i found this document to be quite helpful while setting up a similar
> > configuration, especially section 10:
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/MIDI-HOWTO.html
> >
> > hope that helps. if you still can't get it working, let me know.
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
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