Every now and then i try to turn my linux box into an audio station.
I'm a musician and want to use band in a box.
I recently switched from mandrake to debian because i want to have a better
understanding/control on my system.
I use timidity as i don't own a midi sound card.
config (amd athlon 1.4 nv driver snd-ens1371)
dual boot->debian sarge(2.6.8 alsa debug+ preemption + voluntary_preemption
patch)
->mandrake 10.0 (2.6.3-15-mdk no preemption no patch besides mandrake
applied to its stock kernel. what patches? i don't know)
1.Band in a box (with wine)
Well my problem is that i cannot get the system (debian) to run band in a box
without cratches and glitches whereas it works flawlessly under mandrake!
I tried various patches and hints (http://www.affenbande.org/~tapas)
i still can't make it work.
I even tried to compile mandrake kernel source under debian but raised many
other pbs so i gave up..
So ok i stick on mandrake since it works there...
But since it does work with mdk i should be able to make it work on debian!
Helas not!
How comes it works on mandrake and not on debian?
Any hint anybody?
2. Jack realtime + realtime module + softsynth
Igualito, using jack + qsynth (or even timidity) turns out to be impossible
(thousands of xruns, crappy sound, sometimes X crashes )
when i use realtime the system(atically) crashes
thousands of xruns
mandrake or debian : it is pretty unusable.
I tried changing the IRQs from threaded to not threaded, changing the latency
with setpci, to no avail.
The only thing that improved the xruns a little is:
echo 16 > /sys/block/hda/queue/max_sectors_kb
If some of you managed to solve theis kind of problem (cheap soundcard, no
midi harware) i would like them to share their experience.
There is probably something i didn't or i did wrong!
Cheers
Eric
09/12/04
Is anyone aware of a Linux driver for the Midiman-- Winman 4x4/s
midi interface?
I have drivers for Win95 and Windows NT, but nothing for Linux. My
card is Version 1.04 Revision B, 1996.
Thanks All,
Stephen.
Hello,
They will not work with kernel 2.6 (unless you patch your kernel). If
>you intend to buy one of those: buy another one.
do you have any suggestions for devices if that is the case?
Also,
I'm going to run fedora core 1. Does that use the 2.6 kernel?
>From: Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org>
>Reply-To: A list for linux audio users
><linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu>
>To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
>Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] usb audio device compatibilty
>Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:52:57 +0200
>
>Hallo,
>Thomas Pickett hat gesagt: // Thomas Pickett wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering about compatibilty for some usb audio cards. Is
>the
> > m-audio audiophile usb compatible under linux? Is the m-audio quattro
>usb
> > comp under linux?
>
>They will not work with kernel 2.6 (unless you patch your kernel). If
>you intend to buy one of those: buy another one.
>
> > Is there a website where I can find all this info out?
>
>www.qbik.ch is quite good.
>
> > Anything wrong with using a usb device?
>
>Not in general. Latency will be a bit higher, but for "normal" use it
>works quite well, IMO.
>
>Ciao
>--
> Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
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Off topic but for audio...
As I write this how to, it would be handy to be able to paste pics of
say...Qjackctl setup screen into a html page.
Any ideas what I can use instead of having to do an entire screen capture?
Thanks
Has anyone had a "good" experience installinga multiface with a Linux
laptop? I am ready to purchase a laptop and I am so skiddish of
realtime Linux laptop audio with a multiface that I am considering
purchasing a Mac. Any success stories with laptop model numbers would
be really great info here!
Thanks!
Matt
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Matthew Polashek
Home e-mail: matt(a)tinysongs.com
URL: www.tinysongs.com
Greetings:
I've installed my new Delta 66, it seems to work fine, but I'd like to
get a little more control over it. My system sets up like so:
The SBLive driver is loaded during startup.
I manually load snd-virmidi and snd-ice1712.
I can use 'envy24control -c 2' to access the mixer for the 66.
But qjackctl displays alsa_pcm outputs only for the SBLive.
So my question is: can I start or configure qjackctl to show my
available audio ports from both the SBLive and the 66 ? If so, how ?
TIA!
Best,
dp
Hello,
Can any cheap PCI cards sample at 44k1 directly?
I don't care much about the quality; vinyl does not gove me cool quality
anyway. I could use an older card from the days when 44k1 was standard -
but I don't have an ISA slot.
Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
>>I'm going to install fedora core 1 for my linux package. I went
>>to the fedora website and could only find fedora core 2 downloads. Can
>>somebody give me a download site.
>http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/yarrow-binary-i386-iso.torrent
>Look at http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu for instructions and substitute 'yarrow'
>for 'tettnang' in all the urls to get FC1 (I emailed the admin asking that the
>yarrow/FC1 links be referenced on that page)
Oh never mind. It only half works. It verified the checksum on my copy
then died with an error. The admin said they don't have the contents
of the .torrent files anymore and that there was 'no demand'. Sorry.
>do you have any suggestions for devices if that is the case?
I like my Audiotrak Maya EX7 USB
I even like my noname 'USB 6 ch sound' for $25 from ebay.
>I'm going to install fedora core 1 for my linux package. I went
>to the fedora website and could only find fedora core 2 downloads. Can
>somebody give me a download site.
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/yarrow-binary-i386-iso.torrent
Look at http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu for instructions and substitute 'yarrow'
for 'tettnang' in all the urls to get FC1 (I emailed the admin asking that the
yarrow/FC1 links be referenced on that page)
HTH
