2004 Sun Microsystems 2003 Christian Schaller 2002 Michael Froh 2000 Erik Jarvi &app; is an audio mixer MATE Documentation Project &legal; Sun MATE Documentation Team Sun Microsystems Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller MATE Documentation Project

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&appname; Manual V&manrevision; &date; Sun GNOME Documentation Team MATE Documentation Project 2.0 25 October 2003 Christian Schaller uraeus@gnome.org MATE Documentation Project 1.0 19 Feb 2002 Michael Froh msfroh@uwaterloo.ca MATE Documentation Project Updated to Docbook 4.1.2, for MATE 2.0 0.1 23 Mar 2001 Erik Jarvi ejarvi@megsinet.net MATE Documentation Project This was the original release, for MATE 1.2 This manual describes version &appversion; of &appname;. To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &appname; application or this manual, follow the directions in the MATE Feedback Page. mate-volume-control MATE Volume Control The &app; application is an audio mixer that enables you to mix audio for two-channel sound cards. You can start &app; in the following ways: Applications menu Choose MultimediaVolume Control. Command line Execute the following command: mate-volume-control When you start &app;, the following window is displayed:

Shows Volume Control main window.

The &app; window contains the following elements: Menubar The menus on the menubar contain all of the commands that you need to work with &app;. Display area The display area contains the channel faders and associated options for several mixers, which enable you to control the volume on those mixers. &app; populates the display area dynamically, based on the functionality supported by your sound card. The mixers displayed in your &app; window might be different to those shown in Figure 1. To change a mixer volume, use the channel faders for that mixer, as follows: To increase the volume, slide the fader up. To decrease the volume, slide the fader down. To lock the left and right mixer channels together, select the Lock option for that mixer. When you lock the mixer channels, &app; synchronizes both faders. To silence a mixer, select the Mute option for that mixer. When you adjust the fader of a muted channel, &app; deselects the Mute option for that mixer. Any mixer that has a Rec option can be a recording source. To specify the current recording source, select the Rec option for that mixer. To configure &app;, choose EditPreferences. &app; populates the Mate Volume Control Preferences dialog dynamically, based on the functionality supported by your sound card. Use the options in the Shown column to select the mixers that are displayed in the main &app; window. vol Select this option to display the faders that control the main volume. pcm Select this option to display the faders that control the wave files. speaker Select this option to display the fader that controls the speaker output jack. line Select this option to display the faders that control the line input on your sound card, if the sound card has a line input. mic Select this option to display the fader that controls the microphone input on your sound card. cd Select this option to display the faders that control the CD player input gain. igain Select this option to display the faders that control the volume level of the selected recording device. line1 Select this option to display the faders that control the second line input on your sound card, if the sound card has a second line input. phin Select this option to display the fader that controls the volume of the phin device. video Select this option to display the faders that control the volume of the video devices. To change a mixer label, double-click on the text in the Mixer label column, then enter the new label text. To reset the mixer labels to the default values, click on the Reset labels to their defaults button.