I have a working PCM output with good sounding audio on a Raspberry Pi compute module ( Linux ) using the rpi dac. The 'aplay -l' command output shows the following:
>> aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpirpidac [snd_rpi_rpi_dac], device 0: RPi-DAC HiFi pcm1794a-hifi-0 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
Subdevices: 8/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
To get the audio to work at all, I had to change my /etc/asound.conf file to look like the following:
pcm.mmap0 {
type mmap_emul
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
}
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave {
pcm mmap0
}
}
The output sounds great when I play .wav files but it is a bit quiet and alsamixer does not allow audio volume control with this driver.
I'd like to get a little more volume and so I researched the Ladspa project software amplifier plugin. The following example code boosts the volume on the 3.5 mm jack on normal Pi:
pcm.radio {
type plug
slave.pcm "ladspa"
hint {
show on
description "in -> equal -> declip -> compressor -> limiter -> dmix -> out"
}
}
# LADSPA plugins:
# "listplugins" to see the list of installed plugins
# "analyseplugin <filename>" to see plugin controls
# Use "ardour2" to experiment with plugin settings
pcm.ladspa {
type ladspa
slave.pcm "plughw:0,0"
path "/usr/lib/ladspa"
plugins {
0 {
# Limiter
label amp
input {
controls [ 10 ]
}
}
}
}
I've been reading the documentation here: http://alsa.opensrc.org/Asoundrc, but I'm struggling with understanding how to combine the 2 - I want the MMAP emulation as well as the amplification. How can I accomplish this? Thank you.
Try next setting please,it can work under my x86 linux:
pcm.mmap0 {
type mmap_emul
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
# pcm ladspa
}
}
pcm.ladspa {
type ladspa
#slave.pcm "plughw:0,0"
slave.pcm mmap0
path "/usr/lib/ladspa"
plugins {
0 {
# Limiter
label amp
input {
controls [ 100 ]
}
}
}
}
pcm.!default{
type plug
slave {
pcm mmap0
#pcm ladspa
}
}