HI,
I currently use an old TACT RCS 2.2XP as a preamp.
I would like to bypass this preamp and use my dedicated Windows PC
I have an RME PCIe internal card with more than enough inputs and outputs, plus a networked Anubis ADC for my vinyl turntable.
I'm looking for a dumb proof digital solution to select sources and control the volume.
I looked at "DAWs" and most of them are too complex for me to use with many unneeded features.
A real knob usable in the digital domain would be a real plus.
Thanks for your ideas
Yves
I currently use an old TACT RCS 2.2XP as a preamp.
I would like to bypass this preamp and use my dedicated Windows PC
I have an RME PCIe internal card with more than enough inputs and outputs, plus a networked Anubis ADC for my vinyl turntable.
I'm looking for a dumb proof digital solution to select sources and control the volume.
I looked at "DAWs" and most of them are too complex for me to use with many unneeded features.
A real knob usable in the digital domain would be a real plus.
Thanks for your ideas
Yves
If I'm reading this right, you have a Windows PC set up with some sort of soundcard and you want a physical device to be able to control input switching and volume?
While I can't really help with the Windows side without knowing exact setup, I imagine that you could use keyboard shortcuts and/or a macro generator.
As for the hardware side, I've developed a framework usable on the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller (and other micros) that I've set up for use as a USB HID device. It can be setup as a consumer control device (volume up/down, play/pause, stop, fwd/rev track, etc.) and/or a keyboard for shortcuts. I use it on Windows and on my Moode Audio box. Start by choosing what input peripherals you want to use (e.g. rotary encoder, potentiometer, pushbuttons, etc.) and connect them to the microcontroller, write a simple configurations file, and write a simple Python script.
Here is a simple example of a USB consumer controller. And here is the more general case from which the example is derived. The general case gives a better overview of how the framework is set up. It's very much a work in progress, but definitely up to the task. Let me know if this seems helpful and I can walk you through how to get set up.
While I can't really help with the Windows side without knowing exact setup, I imagine that you could use keyboard shortcuts and/or a macro generator.
As for the hardware side, I've developed a framework usable on the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller (and other micros) that I've set up for use as a USB HID device. It can be setup as a consumer control device (volume up/down, play/pause, stop, fwd/rev track, etc.) and/or a keyboard for shortcuts. I use it on Windows and on my Moode Audio box. Start by choosing what input peripherals you want to use (e.g. rotary encoder, potentiometer, pushbuttons, etc.) and connect them to the microcontroller, write a simple configurations file, and write a simple Python script.
Here is a simple example of a USB consumer controller. And here is the more general case from which the example is derived. The general case gives a better overview of how the framework is set up. It's very much a work in progress, but definitely up to the task. Let me know if this seems helpful and I can walk you through how to get set up.
@Yves845 What you are looking for does not exist, as far as I know. You are not going to find a general purpose AD-DA unit with multiple inputs (to serve as a preamp) that has some sort of analog knob intended to select which input is "active". Also, "input" on these things is not stereo pairs of inputs, which is what you need to work as a preamp, but instead each individual single channel input.
If you can accept software input selection, then you can use a pro-audio recording interface and have software select the input. I do that now with my Linux audio processing software (text based only). I do not know if there is an off-the-shelf Windows software solution, but you might be able to create one with some programming like wdyn1 suggested above.
If you can accept software input selection, then you can use a pro-audio recording interface and have software select the input. I do that now with my Linux audio processing software (text based only). I do not know if there is an off-the-shelf Windows software solution, but you might be able to create one with some programming like wdyn1 suggested above.