16 Sep
2004
16 Sep
'04
2:19 p.m.
Hello all,
Sorry to have gone quiet for a bit, but I've been really busy with
articles and publicity work related to libre audio software!
* Trade magazine Pro Sound News Europe carried a feature on Linux
audio in the August issue, written by Simon Trask. I did an interview
for that, representing linuxaudio.org
* LinuxUser & Developer magazine has agreed to publish a monthly
'Audio Libre' feature; I wrote the first article about AGNULA/DeMuDi
and it will be out by the end of this month.
* The October issue of Sound on Sound is just out, with a two page
feature on JACK with OS X, also written by me.
I'm also working with Ron Parker to compile a promotional CD of 'made
with Linux' music. I've selected 15 tracks from over 900MB of Oggs
and MP3s collected from the internet, and Ron is doing the mastering
using Jamin at Mirror Image Studios. I hoping we'll be able to get
this CD distributed as a magazine coverdisc by the end of this year.
On the hardware manufacturers liaison side, I've been talking to AMD
on a regular basis, and we now have a technical contact there for
x86_64 porting issues. Please email me if you'd like to make contact
with them.
Cheers
Daniel James
Director
http://linuxaudio.org
16 Sep
16 Sep
6:15 p.m.
Dear Daniel,
thank you so much for your work - it's really appreciated.
>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel James
<daniel(a)linuxaudio.org> writes:
Hello all, Sorry to have gone quiet for a bit, but
I've been
really busy with articles and publicity work related to libre
audio software!
I'm also working with Ron Parker to compile a
promotional CD of
'made with Linux' music. I've selected 15 tracks from over 900MB
of Oggs and MP3s collected from the internet, and Ron is doing
the mastering using Jamin at Mirror Image Studios. I hoping
we'll be able to get this CD distributed as a magazine coverdisc
by the end of this year.
Maybe you could do a CfM (Call for Music) on users(a)lists.agnula.org,
if you haven't already - there are a number of people there that are
doing experimentations with doing music with GNU/Linux and Free
Software (not necessarily with A/DeMuDi, actually :).
On the hardware manufacturers liaison side, I've
been talking to
AMD on a regular basis, and we now have a technical contact
there for x86_64 porting issues. Please email me if you'd like
to make contact with them.
What is the technical contact actually going to bring? I mean, are
they willing to lend an x86_64 machine for testing or are they just
answering questions (which is actually fine, btw :) ?
Thanks again,
--
Andrea Glorioso sama(a)miu-ft.org +39 333 820 5723
.:: Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia ::.
Conquering the world for fun and profit
17 Sep
17 Sep
12:33 p.m.
Hi Andrea,
Actually it's been the decision making rather than the finding which
has been the more difficult part. I was easily able to collect the
tracks from various websites, but I guess there's around 15 hours of
music there. In the end I settled for a simple formula of one track
per artist, usually their shortest one available so that we can get a
lot of different styles on the CD.
AMD has discussed the issue of hardware sponsorship - I think we
should make a concrete proposal for that, and the AGNULA project
would be a good candidate.
But they are also interested in helping with technical liaison on
native x86_64 ports of music and audio software. AMD's Digital Media
& Entertainment division works with several film and music studios in
the US, and I'd guess that at least some of those film studios are
using Linux already, for graphics work.
Cheers
Daniel
I'm also
working with Ron Parker to compile a promotional CD
of 'made with Linux' music. I've selected 15 tracks from over
900MB of Oggs and MP3s collected from the internet, and Ron
is doing the mastering using Jamin at Mirror Image Studios. I
hoping we'll be able to get this CD distributed as a magazine
coverdisc by the end of this year.
Maybe you could do a CfM (Call for Music) on
users(a)lists.agnula.org, if you haven't already - there are a
number of people there that are doing experimentations with
doing music with GNU/Linux and Free Software On the
hardware manufacturers liaison side, I've been talking
to AMD on a regular basis, and we now have a technical
contact there for x86_64 porting issues. Please email me if
you'd like to make contact with them.
What is the technical contact actually going to bring? I mean, are
they willing to lend an x86_64 machine for testing or are they just
answering questions
2:32 p.m.
>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel James
<daniel(a)linuxaudio.org> writes:
Actually it's been the decision making rather
than the finding
which has been the more difficult part. I was easily able to
collect the tracks from various websites, but I guess there's
around 15 hours of music there. In the end I settled for a
simple formula of one track per artist, usually their shortest
one available so that we can get a lot of different styles on
the CD.
That seems fair.
AMD has discussed the issue of hardware sponsorship -
I think we
should make a concrete proposal for that, and the AGNULA project
would be a good candidate.
I don't know whether Dynebolic already runs on AMD64 boxes - if not,
we could maybe discuss some way to share the resource between the two.
Are there Dynebolic developers in the zone of Bologna and/or Florence?
Thank you again for your work,
--
Andrea Glorioso sama(a)miu-ft.org +39 333 820 5723
.:: Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia ::.
Conquering the world for fun and profit
2:49 p.m.
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:57:22AM +0100, Daniel James wrote:
AMD has discussed the issue of hardware sponsorship -
I think we
should make a concrete proposal for that, and the AGNULA project
would be a good candidate.
hi Daniel and Andrea,
/me waving from a squatted apartment in Amsterdam Oost
i'm currently testing dynebolic on pentiumI 166 computers found in the
trash, but i would be very interested to have any 64bit computer for
development of MuSE and of my distribution.
As of my present economical situation i can't really afford that, but i
can at least provide institutional credentials as the Nederlands
Instituut voor Mediakunst as well the dyne.org foundation (in fieri).
just let you know i'd be glad to be in ;)
ciao
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jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://rastasoft.org
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3:59 p.m.
Hi Andrea,
I don't know whether Dynebolic already runs on
AMD64 boxes
From my limited experience I'd say most 32-bit binaries will run on
x86_64 CPUs with a little tweak here and there. What's potentially
more interesting is native 64-bit distributions, since unlike the
proprietary system vendors, we have source code for all the software
we use.
UserLinux is producing a native x86_64 version of Debian, so is Ubuntu
I believe. The x86_64 version of SUSE 9.1 Professional is very slick,
and there are variants of Fedora and Gentoo (but I haven't tried
those). What no-one has done so far, to my knowledge, is produce an
audio workstation distribution based on any of these. So we have the
native 64-bit distros on the one hand, and the audio-specific distros
on the other, but there's no crossover between the two yet.
Cheers
Daniel
4:07 p.m.
Hi Jaromil,
i'm currently testing dynebolic on pentiumI 166
computers found in
the trash
I do think it's important not to forget the people with older
hardware, while pushing the boundaries of performance at the other
extreme.
i would be very interested to have any 64bit
computer for development of MuSE and of my distribution.
I can boot dyne:bolic on my own Opteron sometime and let you know if
it works, if you like.
but i can at least provide institutional credentials
as the
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
That may indeed be helpful. For some reason people are reassured by
the existence of institutions...
Irie!
Daniel
4:54 p.m.
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:52:28PM +0200, Andrea Glorioso wrote:
I don't know whether Dynebolic already runs on
AMD64 boxes - if not,
we could maybe discuss some way to share the resource between the two.
Are there Dynebolic developers in the zone of Bologna and/or Florence?
unfortunately not.
i'm glad if you let me know the results of booting dyne:bolic on your
Opteron. i'm planning to start rebuilding it for the 2.0 version and
will to do it on 64bit arch, after i reach to have one.
besides that i'd love to experiment with 64bit also for the other
specific software i'm developing and i fear i'd need to have physical
access to a machine for that.
thanks anyway for your consideration, ciao
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19 Sep
19 Sep
1:44 p.m.
Hi Jaromil,
i'm glad if you let me know the results of booting
dyne:bolic on
your Opteron.
Version 1.3 from the LinuxUser & Developer cover disc worked perfectly
well on this single-CPU Opteron 240, although it only seemed able to
detect the first 880MB of RAM, for example in gkrellm. JACK started
fine with the defaults too.
Just one suggestion - it's handy to have the envy24control
mixer/router utility for owners of M Audio Delta soundcards - I
couldn't find that. Alsamixer does work on these cards for adjusting
levels though.
Cheers!
Daniel
20 Sep
20 Sep
2:57 a.m.
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:09:08AM +0100, Daniel James wrote:
Hi Jaromil,
Version 1.3 from the LinuxUser & Developer cover disc worked perfectly
well on this single-CPU Opteron 240, although it only seemed able to
detect the first 880MB of RAM,
ACK! himem support in kernel, will be there next
for example in gkrellm. JACK started fine with the
defaults too.
we love jack \o/
Just one suggestion - it's handy to have the
envy24control
mixer/router utiliity for owners of M Audio Delta soundcards - I
wow :)
couldn't find that. Alsamixer does work on these
cards for adjusting
levels though.
is envy24control part of alsa-tools? they are allready in for the next.
BTW, yesterday i got a mail from Richard Stallman complaining that there
is no Emacs :DDD i'll put that too, is there some freaky EcaSound Lisp
isn't it? :)))
thanks, ciao!
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11:47 a.m.
Hi Jaromil,
I don't think it's a practical problem for a user like me, but I guess
if you were doing something like video work then you would want to
see all the RAM. This Opteron machine has 1GB, but that's not
unusually large these days.
it only
seemed able to detect the first 880MB of RAM,
ACK! himem support in kernel, will be there next is envy24control part of alsa-tools? they are allready
in for the
next.
Yes it is. I don't know if it should have a menu entry or not, because
it might confuse people who aren't using this chipset. I guess the
most elegant solution is to have a script which adds a menu entry if
the ice1712 driver is loaded. For these cards, you don't really need
any other mixer.
BTW, yesterday i got a mail from Richard Stallman
complaining that
there is no Emacs
I think that's inverted praise, coming from Richard...
Cheers!
Daniel
28 Sep
28 Sep
9:03 p.m.
>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel James
<daniel(a)mondodesigno.com> writes:
That may indeed be helpful. For some reason people are
reassured
by the existence of institutions...
Well, usually institutions can afford to pay heavier fines than single
people, and that reassures lawyers a lot. :)
Bye,
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Conquering the world for fun and profit
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