Livio wrote: You can record drums using a mixer and putting microphones on the drums you want to have some control. Usually 4 mics give good results: two overheads, one for the kick and other for snare/hihat. They can go to an independent track if your soundcard has more than a stereo input, or mixed together in a stereo signal using your mixer if you only have one stereo input. The only concern here is getting your sound levels right before recording as you won't have individual control of levels later on. Remember to have some kind of time measuring on the intros, outros and basically everytime that drums are silent. You can get the drummer to click his/her sticks but only if they have good time, otherwise try to use a click track. Feel free to ask more questions. Eduardo.

Livio a écrit : Well with FC1 you have access to Planet CCRMA so maybe it will be more easy. But you can also find most of the Planet Audio package for MDK (Thac's RPMS, Mandrake Contrib servers, etc ....). Why do you what to built a low latency kernel for mdk 9.1. the kernel-mm package already exist !! If you want to keep the Mandrake distro I suggest you upgrade to 9.2 (or you wait a few month until the MDK 10 release !!) since most of the audio package are update for this version and 9.1 packages are a little old now (and things change quickly in Linux Audio world !!!). Christophe

Livio a écrit : you probably need to re-install the nvidia modules, and for that you need the kernel sources. Thac's RPMS has the kernel multimedia binaries and the kernel multimedia sources, install both but you don't need to re-build the kernel. Thac's RPMS url : http://rpm.nyvalls.se/index.html Choose your version and go to audio RPMS or to directly add an urpmi entry for 9.1 : urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://rpm.nyvalls.se/9.1/RPMS with hdlist.cz for 9.2 : urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://rpm.nyvalls.se/9.2/RPMS with hdlist.cz Yes but you will be ask to install necessary upgrade package for libraries, dependencies, etc ... that are part of the 9.2. So it can be time consuming and maybe not always stable. An upgrade to 9.2 will make your life easier !! Christophe

Il lun, 2004-01-26 alle 14:02, Daniel James ha scritto: What a good new!! where can i find the Thac's RPMs?! As i wrote in my last replay i've tried to install a multimedia kernel package from urpmi but when i start the mm kernel my nvidia can't go with the usual driver and i've to return to the old one.:( thanks Livio

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 06:00, Livio wrote: I just loaded a FC1 system and used Planet CCRMA to upgrade the kernel and add the audio apps. It was definitely easy. You should check out Thac's RPM's first though before you go through the full reload. Jan

Oh tnx Jan for the list! :D I'm trying to find this sound card but i don't think i can find one of these easy. Maybe i'll start trying to record with my own card (ensoniq 128) and than, if all go good, buy one of the cards named over 'cause i don't think they are too cheap. :)