Just checked CPU speed. Is definitely running at or very close to 650Mhz. Just slipped the MDK 9.2 HD into my other identical machine but with 256 megs of RAM. It's cookin'!!! Call me stoopid expecting miracles out of 128megs?? :/ Anyway, this is what I was looking for!! Ardour mixer, Freeverb, 3 band Parametric in post fade...single send from my mixer, panable stereo outs back to mixer! I'll leave it running for awhile but so far no xruns, good latency and sounds better than the Alesis units with a lot more flexibilty. I'll try adding some other plugins later to see where it starts to stall out on performance...but just this as is makes me happy. I already had the laptop...if this stays up reliably thru a gig, I just saved a couple o' hundred bux on yet another piece of gear! thanks Russell On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 11:20, Russell Hanaghan wrote:

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 11:41, Robert Jonsson wrote: Turned off all the networking stuff, pcmcia, apm Cant see not using jack and having effective latentcy? anything I've tried going direct to /dev/dsp just dont work. Crackles, pops, erk! But I like all da purty colors! 8~) I have had Ardour and Jack running on my other identical laptop with 256 megs for a few hours now. Still up and no issues so far, although I have not been working it either. THis Saturday evening will be the test at the good ol' "Lucky Dawg" saloon! Yup, you read it right...The "Lucky Dawg"!! Reeks of Banjo music dont? :) But it's a fun low pressure gig. thanks

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 07:23, Greg Reddin wrote: So far, I have managed to run Jack and Ardour utilizing the swh set of LADSPA plugs. Primarily, my need is for an auxiliary path only using reverbs and eq for vocal and instrument ambiance on the PA.I have jack running with minimal Xruns at 1024, 2, Realtime on my Latitude CPXj 650, 256 megs ram, 20g. Latitude runs an ESS Maestro3 PCI sound chip. Latency is there but not really noticeable for this application of realtime processing. I'm using MDK 9.2 with the Multimedia kernel and as many daemons turned of as I can. I use X and IceWM for GUI. Had a rehearsal last night and I was very impressed!! It stayed stable and I only used "Freeverb" but it is a nice warm reverb and the flexibility is there. Compared to Alesis units or the crappy Zoom multi fx digital pedal I've been using it was surprising. Well worth the effort and this is minimal use but no time right now to experiment more. WHOA!!! Are we recreating HAL here?? 8~} Obviously the lack of ins/outs here is the first issue...unless using RME or Echo Layla or similar and then only like, 8 inputs...On standard cards the headroom specs might be an issue on inputs before distortion. I don't have a clue what I'm running at (Prolly close to -10 dbm unity gain) but no real clue...just watching the VU's in Ardour for that and listening for distortion. On the cheap side, I have a CII docking station for the laptop which has 2 PCI slots. I have a SB Live in it. Now, multiple cards dont work when trying to sync for rec/playback...but for this it wouldn't matter. That would give me at least 2 stereo ins and 4 stereo outs to play with. Should be able to just add emu10k to .asoundrc and fly it next to the Maestro 3. Hopefully the routing can be done in Jack. I had thought of this to process a single mic insert for my female vocalist. Her voice has mucho hi mids and a sidechain or similar setup would be ideal to reduces those pesky earshattering freqs. DOnt know how the processing power will go on this rig. Maybe tonight I'll try it. Love this idea!!! This had occured to me in simpler form. A basic spec. analyser should be easy but the soundcards freq. effect and response would need to be known for a baseline reference I would think. My ears have always been a better tool than any spec analysis I've used but that aside...this might be an easy one not including the 3d rendered room. That will take some CPU juice me thinks??

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 10:34, Paul Winkler wrote: mmm...And the consumer version is relatively cheap huh?? I might try this... True dat!! :) I was thinking this would be kick a$$ for adjusting monitors when they need to be Eq'd from FOH...as in No seperate monitor mixing console. I have had to do this a million times and the footwork was a pain in a big house!

Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan(a)starband.net> wrote: ! Are we recreating HAL here?? 8~} Hal is ancient tech. How many do you need? {Might try this anyway http://www.midiman.com/index.php?do=products.main&ID=fb3e9310bc0341f272… } http://www.tml.hut.fi/Research/ -- See these tears so blue. An ageless heart that can never mend. Tears can never dry. A judgement made can never bend. ... And I've been putting out fire with gasoline... {Dave}

Chris Pickett wrote: How do you check the speed? Do you mean the settings in the BIOS? Because I also have a Thinkpad... Thanks, --rossen

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:08:47 -0500, Chris Pickett wrote: I have a similar problem on my dell 8100, its kinda random what speed it picks. I dont have /proc/cpufreq, but if you run valgrind (eg. "valgrind echo") it will try to work out hte spu speed. - Steve