Can't record direct from keyboard into laptop using microphone socket?
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I'm using a Thinkpad T60 running Slackware Linux 32-bit and I'm trying to record some sounds from my Korg Prologue Analogue Synth keyboard but I've tried connecting the two using a 1/4 inch audio jack to 3.5mm audiocable from both the headphone jack in the synth and from both stereo and mono outputs from the synth all into the microphone jack on the thinkpad and none of them work. When I hit record in Audacity and play anything on the synth- nothing.
output of alsa -l:
Code:**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD1981 Analog [AD1981 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD1981 Digital [AD1981 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0output of arecord -l:
Code:**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD1981 Analog [AD1981 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0I went into alsamixer yesterday and turned every slider all the way up and tried to record in audacity but it still wouldn't pick up any sound. Tried checking alsamixer again today and the capture sliders were back to 0. For some reason in alsamixer it lists three sound cards, Thinkpad Console Audio Control (which refers to the physical volume buttons on the system), HDA Intel (which refers to the actual soundcard) and then it lists -Default which seems to be a stripped down version of HDA Intel except that the capture slider in Default was all the way up whereas the one for HDA Intel was at 0 this morning. I don't know why the two would differ in this way but perhaps it's linked to the cause of the problem. It confuses me because I don't know how I can have a different default soundcard than the only soundcard there is on my system.
output of alsa -l:
Code:**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD1981 Analog [AD1981 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD1981 Digital [AD1981 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0output of arecord -l:
Code:**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD1981 Analog [AD1981 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0I went into alsamixer yesterday and turned every slider all the way up and tried to record in audacity but it still wouldn't pick up any sound. Tried checking alsamixer again today and the capture sliders were back to 0. For some reason in alsamixer it lists three sound cards, Thinkpad Console Audio Control (which refers to the physical volume buttons on the system), HDA Intel (which refers to the actual soundcard) and then it lists -Default which seems to be a stripped down version of HDA Intel except that the capture slider in Default was all the way up whereas the one for HDA Intel was at 0 this morning. I don't know why the two would differ in this way but perhaps it's linked to the cause of the problem. It confuses me because I don't know how I can have a different default soundcard than the only soundcard there is on my system.