Re: [ecasound] Help reading .ecs files

(please imagine the single quotes that I forgot to type in this message
surrounding the output file in the second chainsetup)

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Kevin <kevschneb@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been successfully creating and executing chainsetups via the command
> line and now I want to read an .ecs file instead.
>
> I have the following example saved in F:\Mixing\test.ecs:
>
> ============
> -a:INPUT0 -i select,240,60,'F:\\Mixing\\RAW\\Set_3\\SNARE___.WAV'
> -chcopy:1,2 -eadb:0
> -a:INPUT1 -i select,240,60,'F:\\Mixing\RAW\\Set_3\\KICK____.WAV'
> -chcopy:1,2 -eadb:9
> -a:INPUT0,INPUT1 -o loop,SUBMIX1OUT
> -a:SUBMIX1 -i loop,SUBMIX1OUT
> -a:SUBMIX1 -o F:\\Mixing\\TestOutput.wav
> ============
>
> When I execute "ecasound.exe -s:F:\Mixing\test.ecs" I receive the
> following error:
>
> ============
> (eca-chainsetup) WARNING: Unable to read global resources. May result in
> incorrect behaviour.
> (eca-chainsetup) Chainsetup "F:\Mixing\test.ecs" created (file:
> F:\Mixing\test.ecs)
> (eca-chainsetup) "nonrt" buffering mode selected.
> ERROR: Connecting chainsetup failed: "Enabling chainsetup:
> AUDIOIO-SEQBASE: Could not create child object."
> ============
>
> If I add single quotes around the the filepath of the output, which seem
> to be required for the input wavs to load:
>
> ============
> -a:INPUT0 -i select,240,60,'F:\\Mixing\\RAW\\Set_3\\SNARE___.WAV'
> -chcopy:1,2 -eadb:0
> -a:INPUT1 -i select,240,60,'F:\\Mixing\RAW\\Set_3\\KICK____.WAV'
> -chcopy:1,2 -eadb:9
> -a:INPUT0,INPUT1 -o loop,SUBMIX1OUT
> -a:SUBMIX1 -i loop,SUBMIX1OUT
> -a:SUBMIX1 -o F:\\Mixing\\TestOutput.wav
> ============
>
> I get this error instead when executing ecasound via the .ecs:
>
> ============
> (eca-chainsetup) WARNING: Unable to read global resources. May result in
> incorrect behaviour.
> (eca-chainsetup) Chainsetup "F:\Mixing\test.ecs" created (file:
> F:\Mixing\test.ecs)
> (eca-session) Error loading chainsetup: Audio object
> "'F:\Mixing\TestOutput.wav'" does not match any of the known audio device
> types or file formats. You can ch
> eck the list of supported audio object types by issuing the command
> 'aio-register' in ecasound's interactive mode.
> (eca-session) Chainsetup loaded from "F:\Mixing\test.ecs" is not valid!
> ---
> ecasound: ERROR: [ECA-SESSION] : "Errors parsing session-level options.
> Unable to create session."
> ============
>
> Both examples above work fine when typed at the command line. What am I
> doing wrong?
>
> Thanks much!
>
> Kevin
>

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Received on Fri Mar 16 04:15:02 2012