[linux-audio-user] Animatronic parrot solution?

Robert Jonsson robert.jonsson at dataductus.se
Mon Aug 18 17:02:00 EDT 2003


Monday 18 August 2003 22:29 skrev Steve Harris:
> Cool project :)
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:29:44PM +0200, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> > > Can anyone suggest a suitable Linux solution for this parrot? I was
> > > thinking about ecasound combined with a pitch shift plugin, if one
> > > exists. If the solution could run entirely in RAM (CD booting,
> > > perhaps?) then that would solve the problem of hard disk reliability.
> >
> > Any of the shelf distro would probably suffice. For reliability I would
> > propose using a Flash disk. fast, small, clean, reliable, inexpensive.
> > There are heaps of small, cheap motherboards these days that have built
> > in sound so that won't be a problem.
>
> Flash disks wear out much quicker than HD's do. 

They may, if you write to them, otherwise I don't think this is true. In this 
case there is no reason to write to it.

/Robert

> I would go with a normal 
> IDE HD and set it to spin down under power management.

>
> > It would probably be easiest to do a small c program which utilized some
> > ladspa plugins for the pitchshift, probably noise gate and, possibly the
> > delay.
>
> Yup, you could knock up something with ecasound and some sort of scripting
> language (I think there are perl and python bindings).
>
> Alternativly pd would be a good coice, or writing a jack client in C would
> be pretty easy if you can find a volunteer.
>
> - Steve




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