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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