Hi
I'm now 1 small step from getting a laptop for music applications
(mainly live csound, but also some sequencer (muse?), some soft synths
(csound/PD), some sample playback + maybe HD-recording.
I'm looking at 2 machines
a)P4 2.4Ghz, 256Mb RAM, 20Gb HD, 1400x1050
b)P4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 40Gb HD, 1024x768
Since I'm comming from AMD K6-300, 256Mb RAM, 8Gb HD, I cannot judge if
a) is gonna be too small for my use? Every salesperson will tell you
that you *have* to have 512Mb RAM, since they're assuming you're running
WinXP, how true is this with linux. I don't see the smaller HD as a big
problem, although the bigger the better...
Any thoughts are appreciated.
--
peace, love & harmony
Atte
Have any of the many gentoo users tried the mm-sources. Is it
just the low-latency patch? Does this mean anything for 2.5 and
now, wow, I see 2.6?
--ant
Hi,
I'm pleased to announce the first public release of hdspmixer.
Hdspmixer is a linux clone of Totalmix, a tool to control the
advanced routing possibilities of the RME Hammerfall DSP cards.
You can donwload hdspmixer here :
http://www.undata.org/~thomas/
Thomas
I have not yet tried it. My project this past weekend was figuring out
the ecasound chain settup for a project I've had in mind for years...
It's exciting to have finally made some progress on it. :)
Hopefully this coming weekend, or possibly wednesday of this week, I'll
try the remote 25. I'm not exactly sure how to proceed. I haven't used
any usb devices before, so I don't know what I need to do to test it.
Is there a FAQ, howto or quicktoot on setting up a USB MIDI device? If
not I'll write up something basic if I can get this working.
I know I'll need to recompile the kernel with usb support, but looking
at it briefly in make menuconfig there appear to be a lot of options.
These seem the most pertinent:
CONFIG_USB (obviously)
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (turned on by default when CONFIG_USB is selected)
CONFIG_USB_AUDIO ??? is this needed for a midi device, or is that only
for USB audio interfaces?
Anything else? there are some verbose debugging options or something
like that. Are those helpful?
Presumably some userspace packages need to be installed (i'm on debian
testing at home): hotplug, usbmgr, libusb
Then there are the alsa modules: usb-audio, serialmidi(probably this
isn't needed?)
I'll need to install an application for it to talk to as well. I'll
probably try it with ams or ssm.
Anyway, to answer your question, I haven't had time to try it, yet. But,
I will soon. I'll let you know what I find out.
-Eric Rz.
Then there are the alsa modules --
On Sat 26/07/2003 09:54:04, Steve Harris wrote:
> Did you ever try it under linux? I'm interested in getting one, but I'd
> like it to work over usb, not just midi.
>
> - Steve
Hello,
again, excuse the very basic nature of my question, I should have found these
answers myself, but I tried long and just couldn't. Maybe the internet as
such dislikes me.
I want to do something very basic. Basically that is let multiple programs
talk to my soundcard at the same time. Simple example: XMMS is playing a
song, someone on IRC uses a keyword to page me, my XChat perl script calls
some form of command line mp3/wav playback program and plays a sound that
gets my attention. Or XMMS is playing and I access a webpage with a Flash
animation. Or the aforementioned paging situation happens while watching a
movie with mplayer. Currently, none of those are possible to me. I must say I
am very ignorant in this area still, am really willing to educate myself but
find myself unable to find anything BASIC on this. A little FAQ on basic
terminology would be grand already. What do you call things like ALSA, Esound
and what not? How does stuff like KDE's aRts fit in?
Anyway, I am running ALSA 0.5. I have tried to upgrade to an ALSA 0.9x once,
but I remember faintly there were serious problems, so I tried to circumvent
that upgrade for the time being. Will an ALSA 0.9x version offer me this
functionality of multiple sound sources at the same time? I used esound once
too, while I'm absolutely foggy as to how that worked. I installed it, told
XMMS to talk to esound and then used a play utility that came along with
esound. That's how I solved the XMMS is playing + notify sound from XChat
should play situation. But esound seems to have the latency of a really tired
old man, and that looked plain retarded with the little visualization window
of XMMS. I know I know, not the end of the world, but other programs also
didn't like to talk to esound (including mplayer). Will I need to upgrade to
ALSA 0.9 then? Is that the standard right now? What other options do I have?
Again, if you can just point me to a general FAQ about all this, please by any
means do so.
Many thanks,
Daniel
Hello.
I am something of an old-school rocker, not so much of a
digital-techno-looper (although that stuff sounds fun too). I am
curious to hear how you guitarists out there handle your sound. Do you
all go direct in now? Or do some of you still mic your cabnet? I still
have not gotten my system together because of extenuating circumstances,
so I am still of the old school (namely, tape). When last I tried
(about 10 years ago) there was no good (and affordable) way to go
direct. Has that problem been solved in the modern Linux recording world?
My friend recently purchased an "all-in-one" unit from Roland, a 24
track 24 bit digital recorder, that cost him about $2,500 I think
(excluding cabling, mics etc). He says he goes direct -- and not only
direct but totally clean. All effects, including distortion are added
after the fact. He goes from his guitar into his recorder! This sure
seems strange to me, although I can understand the logic there. Is this
what you guys do?
I would love to hear how you all handle this. :0)
Thanks!
Chris
Hi all,
can anybody tell what interfaces the xbox offers in order to connect A/D-converters?
is there a PCI-slot? (or firewire?)
i guess soon there will be a hack for the xbox without the need for mod-chips.
(this one was OT).
tia,
urban
http://www.nusurf.at/
Hi everybody!
Debian users might be interested, that Ardour finally made it into the Debian
repository (at first of course only in Sid).
Best regards
Christian
Hi,
I've been trying to compile csound on and off for the past two years and
was never really successful: the closest I ever got to a working csound
was a binary which would segfault every other run. So I gave it another
try yesterday and again ran across some difficulties.
Everything goes well enough until the linking stage at which point the
whole things gives up and starts spewing messages such as this one:
main.o(.text+0x341): In function `csoundMain': undefined reference to `POLL_EVENTS'
Now, it appears that POLL_EVENTS is somehow related to graph generation;
the problem is that I don't have any GUI installed on my system and
therefore don't want to have anything to do with FLTK, TCLTK or X11, and
it seems to be responsible for my problems. My question is: has anyone
ever successfully built csound without the graph generation pieces? Any
hint would be greatly appreciated.
More info:
sources: csound 4.23A from cs.bath.ac.uk
system: Debian (unstable tree)
compiler: gcc version 3.3.1
libc: glibc 2.3.1
Makefile:
# DEFINES: I tried with and without -DRTAUDIO and it didn't do
# much for me.
DEFINES = -DSFIRCAM -DSYS5 -DPIPES -DMACROS -DIV_SCHED -DRTAUDIO -DLINUX
# [...]
CFLAGS = -Wall -O2 -falign-loops=4 -falign-jumps=4 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -funroll-loops -DWITHx87 $(RPM_OPT_FLAGS) $(DEFINES)
# [...]
LIBS = -lm -ldl
Regards,
S. Massy
Hi,
Hi. I asked this question on Alsa-Dev yesterday, but 17 hours later got
no answers. Excuse me to those that subscribe to both lists.
This info is to help me do more debug work on a new HDSP 9652 driver
version that I am helping to test.
Should the volume levels I hear when using the command
aplay -Dplughw:0 -r 44100 data/wave/seque~10.wav
be controlled by alsamixer?
The volumes for alsaplayer are being controlled by alsamixer, but this aplay
command is not, at least right now on a new driver I'm using.
Also, on a multichannel card, how do I direct the above aplay command to
a specific channel? I am finding that with this new driver the audio is
appearing on ALL channels on the card, even for a mono wave file. I think
this is a bug, but I'm not sure.
If there's an explanation fit for a simpleton like me about the
difference between plughw and hw and when to use one vs. the other, please
point me there so I can learn. I have read a bit on the Alsa site about
plughw talking directly to the kernel, but beyond that I have not discovered
any documentation yet.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Mark
