23 Sep
2003
23 Sep
'03
6:05 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:12:35PM -0700, Thomas Webb wrote:
Thats a bit like saying "try repeatadly stabbing yourself in the leg, then
when you stop it will feel great!" ;)
I agree with Paul (see, it does happen ;), JACK is the best audio API for
linux, and its portable to MacOS X. If you want more portability, use
PortAudio.
Anyhoo, now that I'm over them, I would love
to get
cracking on some chunky
audio projects but I'm a bit unsure of a kind of
"best practises" approach
for audio programming. What should I study? Whats
the best way to go?!
Everyone on the list is gonna hate me for saying this
:), but do a simple audio app in OSS first. Like, a
sample player. Only then will you appreciate what ALSA
and JACK has to offer. SDL is cool. I like it, but I mostly just use it for
games because as far as sound goes, it's very basic.
It kinda uses the "lest common denominator" approach
for cross-platform capability. Last time I used it for
audio, It only supported 8-bit sound, and I don't
think that's changed since then.
Its pretty hard to build UIs out of it, I tried and gave up (cf.
PressGang/JAMin). I think GTK and Qt are just better for that kind of
thing.
- Steve