I am setting up a new system, running an ATI Radeon video card and a
RME PCI sound card. My box can run a 64 bit Linux operating system,
and I already have an Ubuntu 9.04 x64 installer ready. I wonder what
are the pros and cons of running a 64 bit Linux system nowadays. This
machine will not be used only for audio and video work, also for
blogging so I need that the Firefox web browser and all extensions run
flawlessly. Any info will be very useful so thanks in advance. Compiz?
Java? Flash?
Cordially, Ismael
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On Fri Aug 14 14:37 , James Cameron sent:
>On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:01:59PM +0800, sonofzev(a)iinet.net.au wrote:
>> Even though RAM is cheap I believe having discrete video RAM is better
>> for audio performance...strik me down if I am wrong.. I am open to
>> suggestion.
>
>Doesn't work as a blanket statement, you gotta measure it.
To measure delays or to make music? Time is a limited resource.
>But at least with discrete video memory you can exclude the video card
>as a direct and regular cause of system memory access delays.
>
That's enough of a reason for me to stick with my video card.
I recently changed from a 64 bit install to a 32 bit install (also Gentoo).
I have 4GB of RAM and that uses the highmem function.. there is supposed to be an
extra step to address the RAM.. but I don't see any negative impact on
performance at all... Only thing I have noticed is that more apps are able to
compile, I was going to use VST's .. but I have so much hardware that I never
really get beyond LADSPA plugins to compliment the hardware..
I also am using an NVIDIA video card (7600GS silent).. simply because my dual
monitor system works pretty much automagically with the nvidia-settings tool... I
have onboard ATI Drivers on my mobo.. but have disabled them and don't intend to
use them due to shared RAM...
Even though RAM is cheap I believe having discrete video RAM is better for audio
performance...strik me down if I am wrong.. I am open to suggestion.
On Fri Aug 14 6:48 , Matt Henley sent:
>I have my system running 64-bit Gentoo with no real problems. 32-bit and 64-bit
software run on the system as long as there are corresponding libraries for the
app to link to. Ardour is compiled as 64-bit which means I cannot use VST's in
it, but dssi-vst works fine since Wine seems to be 32-bit and they are run as a
separate process from the 64-bit audio apps. I haven't seen any problems with
Flash/Java/ or media players. I can't address the video card as I use an Nvidia
with the Nvidia 64-bit binary driver which works fine for me. The reason I
switched to 64-bit was that I upgraded to 8 GB memory for rendering in blender.
>
>Matt
>
>On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Julien Claassen <julien(a)c-lab.de> wrote:
>
>Hi Ismael!
>
> 64bit can address more memory (I think this relates to RAM. I think the
>
>integer size used by the CPU is larger. So good for large numbers? and for a
>
>lot of mem. Some people also claim in RT apps it's faster, but I don't really
>
>believe that.
>
> 32bit: All the wndows dlls will run. I guess you'lll also find more
>
>precompiled half-closed software pieces for 32bit. Mplayer and some other
>
>programs can use .dll and other windows shared libs to support audio/video
>
>formats and maybe more. Java shouldn't be an issue. You should only need the
>
>java interpreter and the rest is byte-code, that's supposed to be the same for
>
>all systems. but 32bit might also be nice if you're going to use VST(I)s,
>
>because they too are pieces of 32bit windws software. But I'm not sure how far
>
>the technology has gone here.
>
> Kindest regards
>
> Julien
>
>
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Hello,
I released a new free open source application under GPL3:
contrOSC is a middleware to bridge hardware DAW midicontrollers to OSC
(Open Sound Control) enabled software like PD, CSound or SuperCollider,
so you can easily create patches which communicates with the devices.
The first one is the C4 by MACKIE (tm).
Demopatches for PD and CSound are included, the OSC commands are
documented in the manual PDF.
http://controsc.sourceforge.net
Dependencies are
- QT 4.x
- liblo for OSC
- alsaseq for Midi
So far only sourcecode release.
Cheers,
Malte
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http://www.block4.com
Hey there everyone,
I'm in the process of retooling my website and adding a blog aimed at
beginners to Linux audio. My next article is going to be a detailed
description on how use ZynAddSubFX and also a "down and dirty" on how
to create unique voices for Zyn and save them. I have a ton of unique
voices for Zyn that I've created over the years that I would like to
share as part of the article, but I'm not sure on the best way to
package them for download. My initial plan was to save each one as a
separate .xmz file and zip all that together but would it be better to
open up the banks folder where they are all saved and zip them up from
there?
Also if anybody wants to sharpshoot glaring errors in the articles on
my blog (all 2 entries so far) it is available @
http://makinglinuxmusic.blogspot.com
Thank you for your time
Christopher ("Airlynx"/"Chip") Van Dan
>>Notice<<
http://airlynx.sitesled.com is slowly moving to http://airlynx.x10hosting.com
>>Notice<<
Hi all,
would somebody like to give a short & relaxed demo of JACK and
some of its potential during our next Linux lounge in Leipzig,
taking place coming thursday night at gal.lery.org (August 20)?
You can forward my request to anyone who might be near and
does not happen to read this list.
Thanks!
Johannes
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Greetings,
I've posted the Csound audio portion from another work in progress
created with AVSynthesis:
http://linux-sound.org/audio/studiodave-avs_p01_090805.ogg
Reviewer James Joyce Jr. writes: "Klangfarbenmelodie at its Csoundiest !"
Comments welcome, as always.
Best,
dp
Hi,
I'm trying to make a large collection of audio files available through a
HTTP server. The collection consists of mostly Ogg Vorbis and MP3, and a
couple of files in other formats. Unfortunately, the client that's
supposed to play the files does not support any of these formats except
for MP3.
Is there any way to set up a webserver that will automatically convert
the various audio file formats to MP3?
I'm not looking for a web radio, instead each file should be accessible
individually and look just like a regular MP3 to the client. Some kind
of streaming would be nice though (so the client can start playback
before the whole file is converted/transferred).
Any suggestions how this could be done?
Thanks,
Dominic
Airlynx wrote:
> Hey there everyone,
>
> I'm in the process of retooling my website and adding a blog aimed at
> beginners to Linux audio. My next article is going to be a detailed
> description on how use ZynAddSubFX and also a "down and dirty" on how
> to create unique voices for Zyn and save them. I have a ton of unique
> voices for Zyn that I've created over the years that I would like to
> share as part of the article, but I'm not sure on the best way to
> package them for download. My initial plan was to save each one as a
> separate .xmz file and zip all that together but would it be better to
> open up the banks folder where they are all saved and zip them up from
> there?
>
> Also if anybody wants to sharpshoot glaring errors in the articles on
> my blog (all 2 entries so far) it is available @
> http://makinglinuxmusic.blogspot.com
>
> Thank you for your time
>
>
> Christopher ("Airlynx"/"Chip") Van Dan
>
I visited the site and was pleasantly surprised. To be honest, not sure what I was expecting, but whatever it was, your site seemed logical/methodical in formatting and content. As a matter of fact, wish that you could tweak more than a couple of them there at ubuntuforums.com. The closest thing to a "weakness" and it was not even that at all, with the content is that on some ubuntu setups, need to set up a group called audio and make sure your name is in there (yes, there are some other work arounds as well). As a former teacher, one of the things that can bother myself and others is proper spelling and grammar. Not sure how you will take this, but will offer an A+ each for content, delivery and spelling/grammar.
I liked how you steered clear of the flame/distrowars quite nicely by stating that you use both of them for different things and there are good/ bad things about them. Most importantly, you knew when to stop talking and let it drop. Bravo!! Please teach lessons online.
With all of that said, will say this. Would love to test some of those zynaddsub files for you. Top notch work. All in all, I should say that I bookmarked it and am looking forward to (hopefully) regular visits.
Hope that encourages you,
Paul
Can anyone advise on a good, but relatively cheap,
hardware compressor-equalizer-limiter ?
I'm told its best to clean up the input signal rather than
having to try to clean it up after its already recorded.
That's why I'm looking for this hardware, at a reasonable price.
I'm not looking for the high-end professional stuff.
Any information would be most welcome.
