15 Feb
2010
15 Feb
'10
5:41 a.m.
Going off on the artistical tangent...
On Sunday 14 February 2010 20:34:19 Ken Restivo wrote:
First of all, FOH techs already laugh at me when I
present them with two
male XLR jacks going to TLS dongles into a M-Audio FastTrack and an EEEpc.
At least it saves them from having to go fish out a DI box.
They shouldn't laugh. Probably that FastTrack has symmetrical outs, if so, its
better to use them directly then going through a DI-Box...
The sound in their voices is always really interesting
when they're calling
sound checks: they get through the drumset, guitars, basses, B3 (if
present), and then they say, "OK, um, laptop, I guess?". It's a mixture
of
respect, disdain, amusement, and confusion.
Would be even more fun when the sound of drumset, basss and B3 where already
coming through your laptop:-P
In my occasional nerdy dreaming modes, I thought of
hacking up one of those
large LED-matrix scrolling displays to a Linux-based phone, and giving out
the number onstage so the audience can text us while we're playing. Or
face the LED towards the audience so they can blast out random texts to
the whole audience.
Hehe, have them send text-messages trough sms or twitter/identica, feed these
texts into festival or any other speach synthesis, feed that into autotune or
autotalent to make it tune to your melodie and you get singers for free:-)
As for the ARM's/Droids/Pandoras/etc, it looks
like technology is not quite
ready yet, but it's getting there. Recompiling audio apps with funky -m
flags is no problem, but rewriting for example LADSPA plugins to add ASM
to use the FPU sounds like more work than it'd be worth.
Still, I'd estimate by next year it'll be all squared away.
Part of me thinks that in one or two years these processors in cell-phones
will do floating-point as fast as fixed-point/integer calculations...
Have fun,
Arnold
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