600D Audio TEST release - 2.3 based

[Mister Paul]

Sorry guys for my question as I can help your development only with PayPal...

I was going to buy a 600D but as there is no audio monitoring during recording I'd go back to 550D but your post gave me hope...
So... when do you think that a quite stable version could be released?

[1%]

Probably will be merged for next version. A1ex is doing 5dIII stuff. Audio works pretty well. Miyake's bin is almost vanilla 2.3 + audio. If you have a 600D still you can try it.

[klangdrang]

Today I came back from a 4 weeks filming session for a documentary.I used the normal 2.3ML without the features you added because I had to be sure that everything works. In this time I had one day to test 0.5 Alpha release of ML for 600d with audio enabled and I really liked it.
Now after having my 4 weeks praxis test I really like to have one feature: controling the mic gain while recording. This feature is essential especially for documentaries. I can't set up my camera befor recording. Everything has to be set while filming. So what's about changing the gain with the wheel while pressing Q? Would be a great feature for the ML-600d-audio version.

[miyake]

Now DISP shortcut key is controlling only analog gain. So you want to change mic boost like analog gain shortcut , right?
And it's enough?

I think , current shorcut key is controlling monitoring volume too. If I change shortcut vertical line to mic gain controlling, it's a enough for you?
Or , replace horizontal (analog gain) to mic gain control. Is it enough?

However, a lot of user using, sound functions. It's need a more considerations.

[klangdrang]

Oh I did not know that its possible to contol audio with the DISP-button. So This will work only with audio control by ML? Like I said, I used the "normal" 2.3 ML firmware with my 600d and there is no audio-support for 600d. I thought of controlling the canon manual audio control with magic lantern. but now I think I don't need it any more. (sorry: hard to describe, I am not a native english speaker)

[miyake]

Never mid, I'm not native too.
Anyway, Try our 600D audio 0.11 version. And If you find bug or had a some advice to us, feel free to comment to this forum.

[1%]

I thought you could change everything on the fly from the menus.

[miyake]

Merged all of our 600D audio codes to unified development tree!!!
Those codes are leave from our hand. Thankyou very much all testers. It's our developers/testers achievement.
But if you found some more problems, I can support you and if I found/solve bugs, I can push bug fix code to Alex.
Next release or improvement .bin will release from core team. 

[juantrueno]

Thanks @Miyake, @1%, and all developers for your effort! Working audio on 600D is amazing!
Thanks Thanks Thanks!

[jonnyschanny]

Thanks a lot for all your work team!!!

[sam dig]

Hi, great news and thanks.
Is this functionality now merged into the main 2.3 download - if not any idea when, and what is the best way to download it currently?

[nanomad]

The 2.3 is frozen. The functionality is included in the source repository so you'll have to compile it yourself

[lexa_one]

Thanks a lot for this realy good work 

Is it possible to  just have a 600D audio 0.12 version without the "test" message?
I really don't know how do it myself 

[Anton2707]

Good work! Thank! Join request the release of version 0.12 of the test without a message about test.

[scrax]

Test version are NOT released without the Test advice to avoid confusion with official release.
Only if you compile it by yourself you can edit makefile.user to remove it

[Mister Paul]

Hi,

first of all thank you very much for your great work. It's so helpful.

I tried it on my new 600D. Sorry but I can't compare as I don't have any 550D or other DSLR. And I am new to Magic Lantern too...

I have 2 points to mention:

1° As expected I get audio monitoring in my headphones during recording, but I don't get any sound in them during playback:
only the Canon speakers are playing the audio tracks even if my headphones are plugged (and recognized by ML)
Not sure if I have misunderstood something (I suppose!) or if that's a bug...

2° I am not sure to have best settings in ML for recording/monitoring for my Rode VideoMic Pro (output impedance = 200 Ohms)

- My Rode settings: +20db increased signal level + High Pass Filter on
- Magic Lantern settings:
Analog Volumes: 0db
Digital Gain: 0db
Output volume: 0db

In fact my settings are only controlled by using the button DISP. shortcut for analog gain (horizontal) to set "Input vol" at +15db or +24db
I see better modulation at 24db but I get some more hiss too (in my headphones but not recorded)...
Also I supposed that these settings should be seen after on menu "Analog Volumes" but it's still set to 0db

Do you think am I wrong in my way of managing the settings or I could get better results with another approach?

Thanks for your help

[1%]

Playback isn't set up to work through headphones.

I see better modulation at 24db but I get some more hiss too (in my headphones but not recorded)

In my case the hiss seems recorded but I do think monitoring is off from recorded audio. I think that's a problem with the IC though. Thanks for testing.

[lexa_one]

Test version are NOT released without the Test advice to avoid confusion with official release.

Ok, Ok no problems to wait the official 2.4   

[Mister Paul]

Thanks.

But just to ask more precisely, do you think that it's better to adjust recording levels:
  - using DISP shortcut (step by 9db - jumps from 15 to 24db...)
  - "Analog Volumes" from ML Audio menu (step by 5db)
I suppose we interfere on the very same parameter (analog gain) with both, no?

Playback isn't set up to work through headphones.

Would be great to control taken shots!

[1%]

Can't really play back the movies in camera, would be nice just for wav playback since I have them recording separately. Its like internal w/external channel swapping, nice but effort < result.

[MAZ87]

could it be that the download link isn't working.

i wanted to test the audio test version.

[1%]

Yea, its gone.

Until next ML release.

https://bitbucket.org/OtherOnePercent/tragic-lantern/downloads

But need to have card formatted to exfat.

[MAZ87]

sorry but i don't know which file i have to download for the last audio test release 0.11 or 0.12 ?

is there a official release date for next ml version?


thx maz

[1%]

The test releases are gone. You can either compile ML from source or use my binary. Sorry.

[Mister Paul]

I just found something weird... I don't know if that's related specially to the 600D Audio release or if it would have been the same with others Canon devices:
I was recording a movie with external mic + earphones: OK.
I took a photo during video shooting: OK.
But when video came back after the photo:
- 1° the sound was saturated (levels up in red),
- 2° No more audio monitoring (but the movie was still recording),
- 3° I had to shut down the Canon (On/Off or releasing battery) to be able to use ML or Canon menu again.

Effectively when I read the .mov after the sound level jumps high (saturation)