26 Mar
2005
26 Mar
'05
12:23 a.m.
On March 26, 5:08 am <ish(a)sarai.net> wrote:
I feel JAmin will require with multiple tracks a lot
of hardware
resources while running and I think it only takes one stereo
input(can not check it up because im re-installing my mach :) But I
have used JAmin with ardour with multiple tracks/final mixdown and
it works pretty well . To play these things live will require a nice
sound card, which can give you low-latency audio that is very crucial
with live audio. LADSPA Pugins are very good and some audio people
will totally disagree that software can replace good hardware for
live sound, but you can always trust your ears.
boom
<<>ISh
On March 26, 3:50 am Iain Duncan <iainduncan(a)telus.net> wrote:
I would like to set up a small mastering rack
just before sound
output for live shows, this is on linux. Essentially I'm hoping to
have about 8-12 channels of audio go out of csound5 via jack and
into some sort of host for plugins and mixing down to four
channels of final audio out. All I want to run are a few
compressors and some eq, with easy access to the control
parameters and graphic vu meters of the compression. Ideally these
plug ins would also be controllable via midi cc's and some form of
API so I can make my own gig front end integrated with my csound
user interface. Questions:
Is this feasable with csound5 now? Has anyone gotten multi-output
working well with Jack?
What should host the plugins? Ecasound looks promising, but will I
be able to get graphic vu meters of the compression action? Does
that even work properly, ie can the screen respond fast enough?
Anything else I should look into? Jammin seems heavy me thinks.
Which plugins should I use? I'd like minimal cpu use, but a good
easy over compressor ( soft-knee ), a good final limiter, graphic
eq, and paramateric eq. Compressor must have accurate controls for
attack, release, ratio, threshold, and some form of knee control.
Is this even feasable? Are the LADSPA plug-ins good enough now to
replace hardware in the $300 compressor, $100-200 eq range? I don't
expect it to sound as good as TL-Audio tubes or anything, but I
won't drop $300 on an FMR or buy a bunch of ProSonus's if a plugin
can sound as good as that.
All suggestions welcome, thanks.
Iain