Setting your mixer correctly

• Make sure that your recording source is set to the audio input you wish to use. For me, this is usually Line In, into which I plug my mixer which handles guitar, microphone, etc.
• Set the volume levels so that Wave Out is all the way up. This is so that you will be able to hear ELE's output! Also, make sure that the volume of your recording source is ZERO - so it will not automatically echo through the output.
• If you are using KDE and the KPanel mixer, it might look something like this:

Test of ELE and mixer settings

• Run ELE while talking into your microphone or whatever input you are using. You shouldn't hear it. Now click on a Line In terminal (one of the little colored squares) then click on a Line Out terminal. You should see a wire form. Same for the other pair of terminals. Now you should be hearing your microphone coming out of your output! ELE should look like this:

Saving your work

• You can save your effect layout with Save Layout, under the File menu. Recalling it is done by Open Layout, also under the File menu. Similarly, the contents of the Sample List can be saved by Save Samplebank and recalled by Open Samplebank.

Sound Quality

• Is the sound clean, or does it glitch? Try opening and closing windows, resizing windows, see if it causes glitches in the output.
  1. ELE prefers to be ran as root. If root runs it, it can claim SCHED_FIFO realtime priority for the audio thread and no process will be able to interrupt it while it is handling audio data. This will prevent most glitches. However, a bug in ELE or in your sound driver can easily crash your computer - use with caution!
  2. You may need to increase the sound buffer size - this will increase latency. ELE will not respond as quickly to incoming sound, but there will be a slight delay. To do this, use options -b1, -b2 to -b5 on the command line. The smaller number that will work, the better. Default is -b0!