I just did a fresh Gentoo 1.4 install in a new machine with an RME 96/8 PAD
card, which uses the rme96 driver. System sounds now come to my hifi system
through the rme card, so I think the driver is loading and working.
I cannot get Audacity or Ardour to record, however. Audacity works fine in the
same machine when using the monopolist's operating system, however. Running
on that partition, Audacity finds 11 or 12 sound devices, the 8 RME channels
and the builtin VIA sound chip devices. Under Linux, Audacity only finds
/dev/dsp, and sometimes not that.
How do I get Audacity to see other devices, or is that my problem?
John
Hi,
I'm checking out my distro options for a Linux machine I will use to
record music and do MIDI with.
I'm mostly a Debian adept, so I was
thinking of adding the demudi packages to my sources.list, but they
seem a bit out of date (there is newer stuff in sid than in the demudi
specific repositories ?).
Planet CCRMA looks very promising, it even includes a low latency
patched kernel :) (anyone having experience with this distro ?).
Gentoo seems nice too, albeit maybe a bit harder to install.
The most important thing is probably the availability of
music related programs (packages).
Aside from the distro question, which kernel do you prefer ?
I know I need the low latency patches in here:
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/schedlat.html, but aside
from these patches, what should I definitely include in the
kernel ? I guess the pre-emptible kernel patch too (the planet
CCRMA distro has it).
kind regards,
Vincent
PS: amyone got the link to Benno Sononer's (I hope I spell it right :)
latencytest ?
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Hi list,
Is there any way to configure alsa so that it supports the front and
rear output of an sblive as seperate output devices? Or something similar?
I read somewhere that it should be possible with oss. so of course alsa
can do it?
And on top of this, would it actualy be possible to have those outputs
represented as four seperat channels within jack?
Regards,
Lukas
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Hello,
For updating the computer of my father I am looking for a sound card with
SP/DIF input that is supported with Linux.
My father is a flute teacher and he often records his concerts with a DAT
recorder. Until recently he used an Atari Falcon in order to copy these
material onto CDs. However, now he wants to switch to Linux. (He is more a
Linux user, so all the administration stuff for his Linux box is done by me.)
As the computer does not yet have an SP/DIF interface I will buy a soundcard
which has such an interface (The DAT recorder uses optical cables).
Our computer vendor suggested to buy a Creative Soundblaster Platinum. By
browsing through the internet I found a Hoontech SoundTrack Digital XG which
seems to have all needed features at a reasonable price.
Are these two cards supported (inclusive the digital input)? Does anyone got
some experiences with these cards? Do they allow the sound data to go
unaltered to the hard disk (without sample rate conversion, mixing in analog
input etc.)?
Are there other cards that I should have a look on?
Gunnar Schmi Dt
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Hi all,
I've been messing with Csound recently in order to see whether csound can be used well in real-time settings. The problem is that I tried icsound and the other csound (forget the source) and neither were able to output anything in real-time.
I've used -o devaudio flag, also -W (for wave) output, and while my scorefile finished without any errors, I got no sound out.
If I try to do <csound call> > /dev/dsp I get garbage sound since the header is all screwed up by the verbose output of the csound process.
I am using latest ALSA and I compiled csound from scratch and still no luck.
So, I was wondering if anyone had any luck running it in real-time.
P.S. I've been also having a terrible time trying to compile externals in the icsound (i.e. OSCext and others). I get a huge number of errors and am not sure where the problems is stemming from.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Ico
1. A short summary of changes
A new native Python implementation of the ECI API has been added to
the package. Ecasound.el (ecasound-emacs) has been updated to version
0.8.2. Oggs and mp3s can be now streamed directly from network.
Author information is now visible in the LADSPA plugin descriptions.
Changes in ALSA-0.9 support improve usability of ecasound with
the new ALSA dmix PCM plugin. There have been many important
bugfixes including correct handling of short parameter fades,
broken chainsetup level looping, problems with creating temporary
files and minor build system issues.
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2. What is ecasound?
Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio
processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback,
recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect
processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports
a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms.
Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their
parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators
and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included
in the package.
Ecasound is licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface
(ECI) is licensed under the LGPL.
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3. Changes since last release
Full list of changes is available at
<http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/history.html>.
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4. Interface and configuration file changes
None.
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5. Contributors
Patches
Janne Halttunen (the new Python ECI implementation)
Mario Lang (ecasound.el 0.8.2)
Junichi Uekawa (pyecasound.so build)
Kai Vehmanen (various)
Bug Hunting (items closed)
William Goldsmith (2)
Michael Hellwig (1)
Janno Liivak (1)
Raoul Megelas (1)
Feature requests (items implemented)
Oliver Thuns (1)
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6. Links and files
Web sites:
http://www.eca.cxhttp://www.eca.cx/ecasound
Source packages:
http://ecasound.seul.org/downloadhttp://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.2.2.tar.gz
Distributions with maintained ecasound support:
Agnula - http://www.agnula.org
Debian - http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/ecasound2.2.html
DeMuDi - http://www.demudi.org
FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html
Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org
PLD Linux - http://www.pld.org.pl
PlanetCCRMA - http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software
SuSE Linux - http://www.suse.de/en
Contrib Packages for Distributions:
Mandrake - http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.0.html
Note! Distributors do not necessarily provide packages for
the very latest ecasound version.
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http://www.eca.cx
Audio software for Linux!
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Well, I have been using a mixed environment between Linux and Windows for
recording, mixing and mastering and so far I have got good results
(http://www.artistcollaboration.com/~loauc)
That site is aimed to people willing to collaborate and they provide free
space (web and ftp), open forums and basically what we are looking in this
collaboration thread. Take a look at it: http://www.artistcollaboration.com
They have a fast connection and there is a general agreement that mixes are
posted as mp3 (or ogg, some prefer that) and individual tracks are posted
either as wma or ape (a loseless codec capable of compressing around 25 % of
the original wav size).
There has been also a discussion about porting n-Track to Linux, it could be
what is needed, just hang around the n-track forum (http://www.fasoft.com/)
and you'll realize what I'm talking about.
FD