Hi all,
Just heard the news (rumors) of new Macs that are going to hit the
streets on Monday. Seems like Apple is finally going to catch-up with
the PC world: there's talk of using IBM's PowerPC 970 64-bit CPU's.
Makes me wonder what repercussions this will have on the whole LAD/LAU
community, considering that they supposedly will have built-in optical
audio I/O and with the recent announcement of Trolltech to make OS X Qt
GPL-ed, leaves less and less advantages in Linux's favor (apart from the
obvious untouchable open architecture and perhaps faster growing
user-base -- according to recent news, can't remember where I exactly I
read it tho, sale of factory-built Linux boxes should surpass Apple's
this year, and that does not even include people with home-built
machines and dual-booters).
Please don't get me wrong. I am still in favor of Linux, obviously due
to its open architecture. But at the same time I am becoming a bit weary
of having to "hack" my advanced audio settings rather than use
user-friendly tools. That, coupled with still anemic direct vendor hw
driver support has really made me pay closer attention on Macs (as scary
as that sounds). Yet, I feel such a sense of accomplishment when my
Linux purrs just right with my desktop being uniquely configured and
tailored to my needs. After all, I am a geek. :-) And the inner struggle
goes on...
Anyone care to comment or (please) dissuade me from potentially making a
costly mistake? ;-)
Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico
Dear Friend,
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New in this release:
-Total rewrite of the interface and half the core player engine.
-CheeseTracker now uses the Qt toolkit.
-Nicely featured sample editor.
-High amount of customization options.
-Interface improvements in nearly all aspects, it should be more userfriendly and intuitive.
-MDI support, many songs can be loaded and played together, for live performance or simply data exchange purposes.
-Dozens of bugfixes since 0.5.
URL:
http://www.reduz.com.ar/cheesetronic
The mandatory screenshots:
http://www.reduz.com.ar/cheesetronic/index.php?section=6
Cheers!
Juan Linietsky
Salem Radio Labs is pleased to announce the public release of version 1.1.2 of
Call Commander, a high-performance call screening and management system
targeted for use in professional talk radio environments. This is a beta
release that adds the following new features:
Support for the Comrex/Gentner TS-612 Mutliline Telephone System
A call skimmer to allow automatic, unattended recording of selected calls to
hard drive.
Support for logging calls to tables in a mySQL database.
Enhanced hotkey support.
Further information, screenshots and download links can be found at:
http://www.salemradiolabs.com/callcommander/
Call Commander runs on the GNU/Linux operating system, and is available under
the GNU General Public License
Cheers!
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Hi to all,
I´m looking for a codec that is able to do realtime compression as fast as
possible in order to use it for high speed audioconferencing.
Thought about values < 5ms ... don´t know what´s possible and what not -
just a first request, any information appreaciated.
Thanks in advance
-- A l e x
hello,
i'm looking for a solution to encode an ambisonics signal to 2 channel
UHJ in real time. is there for example a LADSPA or (linux compatible)
VST plugin to do this?
oliver
> Hi,
>
> lördagen den 21 juni 2003 09.18 skrev cliffw(a)easystreet.com:
> > Wanted to post a quick success story with the 2.5 kernel series:
> > Machine
> > processor VIA C3 Ezra
> > cpu MHz : 932.918
> > bogomips : 1843.20
> > 256MB ram
> >
> > Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio
> > Controller (rev 50)
> >
[snip]
> >
> > I made a few passes at this machine with 2.4, but i could _not get useable
> > audio - overwhelmed by pops and crackles.
>
> Cool that these mini-itx machines actually does work :)
>
> I was wondering, where you refering to 2.4 as in 2.4+ll+(whatever)
> and 2.5 was, infact, performing better? *fingers crossed*
Farthest i got with 2.4 was 2.4.21-ck1 (Con Kolivas' rollup of various things)
Everything 2.5 past 2.5.66 runs better for me than 2.4 on this tiny machine.
Plus, with ALSA native in the kernel, i figure i've got a better chance with
USB and stuff like that.
cliffw
>
> /Robert
>
>
> > Now if you allow your Open Source Applications to be ported to
this
> > proprietary OSes, you strengthen this behaviour and weaken the
Open
> > Source Movement. People will get your software but will stick with
OSX
> > or whatever cause of this called Killerapps.
Systems.
>
> Just to add a bit onto this issue is that we could still support
> non-opensource systems, but they would need to purchase the software
> (see my other e-mail with the Trolltech as an example).
>
Please, you guys sound like a government that wants to regulate
everything with laws and taxes. If we (the open source movement) let
our "enemies" (closed-source businesses) make us behave like them, we
have lost. A more creative approach would be to make a good OSX
emulator (inverse Darwin) which lets those people run their killer
apps under Linux.
And by the way, isn't someone who uses and contributes to open-source
apps under OSX/Solaris/etc still a part of the open source movement?