5 Jul
2006
5 Jul
'06
9:45 p.m.
I would like to run a sampler program and a good
sound card on a sun sparc solaris 9 platfrom. Does
anyone have any recomendations??
Kevin Kelley
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5 Jul
5 Jul
9:58 p.m.
kevin kelley wrote:
I would like to run a sampler program and a good
sound card on a sun sparc solaris 9 platfrom. Does
anyone have any recomendations??
You're going to have some real problems here.
Firstly, Solaris does not support OSS or ALSA; it has its own
audio I/O architecure and few Linux audio programs are likely
to support it.
Secondly, SUN ships its own drivers for the hardware it supports.
You are unlikely to be able to get Solaris drivers for any third
party audio hardware.
However, if you were willing to run Linux on this machine and it
had PCI, then you would have drivers and OSS and ALSA.
Just my AUS $0.02.
Erik
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10:06 p.m.
This machine is a pci based sparc machine so I can run
a linux flavor on this machine. I got the conputer for
free I would like to use it for audio if I can I am
not set on running solaris though.
Kevin Kelley
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kevin kelley wrote:
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I would like to run a sampler program and a
good
sound card on a sun sparc solaris 9 platfrom. Does
anyone have any recomendations??
You're going to have some real problems here.
Firstly, Solaris does not support OSS or ALSA; it
has its own
audio I/O architecure and few Linux audio programs
are likely
to support it.
Secondly, SUN ships its own drivers for the hardware
it supports.
You are unlikely to be able to get Solaris drivers
for any third
party audio hardware.
However, if you were willing to run Linux on this
machine and it
had PCI, then you would have drivers and OSS and
ALSA.
Just my AUS $0.02.
Erik
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10:15 p.m.
kevin kelley wrote:
This machine is a pci based sparc machine so I can
run
a linux flavor on this machine.
What machine is it btw?
I got the conputer for
free I would like to use it for audio if I can. I am
not set on running solaris though.
If you want to run the full set of Linux audio apps on this
thing you will need to run Linux or be prepared to do a bunch
of porting work for every app you want to run.
These problems will largely disappear if you run Linux. Sparc
is big endian like PowerPC so any software than will run on
PowerPC Linux should also run on Sparc Linux with nothing more
than a recompile.
Obviously things like binary only Realplayer and Flashplayer
will not be available to you.
Erik
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6 Jul
6 Jul
8:27 a.m.
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 17:06:14 -0700 (PDT)
kevin kelley <xirin6(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
This machine is a pci based sparc machine so I can
run
a linux flavor on this machine.
I use Aurora Linux on a dual processor Sparc Ultra 60, and though I
don't do any audio with it, I'm very happy with the setup. The 2.0
release is based on Fedora Core 3, and there are a great many apps
precompiled for it.
http://auroralinux.org
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4:32 a.m.
On Thursday 06 July 2006 01:56, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Firstly, Solaris does not support OSS or ALSA;
Au contraire, you can use OSS on Solaris:
http://www.4front-tech.com/solaris.html
However if I were you I'd really install Linux and use ALSA, more because I
dislike Solaris than anything else... ;)
-AL.
7 Jul
7 Jul
9:47 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:56:58AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
kevin kelley wrote:
Are you sure it doesn't support oss? I know that 4front will sell
drivers for Solaris.
Also, a number of gnome programs have been ported to work with SunAudio.
PortAudio works on Solaris as well, and that will help for some
programs.
I wonder if it would be feasible to get Jack to sit on the sun audio
libraries.
I would like to run a sampler program and a
good
sound card on a sun sparc solaris 9 platfrom. Does
anyone have any recomendations??
You're going to have some real problems here.
Firstly, Solaris does not support OSS or ALSA; it has its own
audio I/O architecure and few Linux audio programs are likely
to support it. Secondly, SUN ships its own drivers for the hardware
it supports.
You are unlikely to be able to get Solaris drivers for any third
party audio hardware.
In the past people have ported some sound card drivers to Solaris,
although I am not aware of any of them really being pro quality
(http://www.tools.de/solaris/audio/ seems to be the largest effort).
Maybe OpenSolaris is encouraging more of that.
I had hopes of writing a driver on Solaris for a pro sound card I had at
work, but all my engineering samples were sent back to be replaced, and
I'm not getting to play with the replacement. I wouldn't have been able
to release the driver anyway though. But maybe it would have encouraged
me to try porting drivers from alsa.
Actually, does anyone know if it would be realistic to port ALSA to a
new platform, or is it too severly linux dependent?
However, I wonder what sort of latencies you will be able to get under
Solaris 9 or Solaris 10. I've always assumed that they wouldn't be very
good, but maybe someone else knows better than me.
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On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 19:32 -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
Actually, does anyone know if it would be realistic to
port ALSA to a
new platform, or is it too severly linux dependent?
It might not be that hard. It's really hard to say without trying it.
However, I wonder what sort of latencies you will be
able to get under
Solaris 9 or Solaris 10. I've always assumed that they wouldn't be
very good, but maybe someone else knows better than me.
I would actually expect them to be very good. Solaris pioneered many of
the soft realtime features in the late 80s that Linux is only now
getting in the -rt patch - for example, interrupt threading.
Lee
5 Jul
5 Jul
10:27 p.m.
On Wed, 05 Jul, 2006 at 04:45PM -0700, kevin kelley spake thus:
I would like to run a sampler program and a good
sound card on a sun sparc solaris 9 platfrom. Does
anyone have any recomendations??
What do you want to do with it? I mean, what is the purpose of
running the sampler? Music making? Sound effects? ...?
I have a very simple OSC-controlled sampler that I've been working on
for a project of my own. You're welcome to give it a go if it fits
your needs.
J
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10:31 p.m.
Main use is music sample archives. but hopefully a
full use sampler similar to a hardware based sampler
for music I.E. akai s 1000 ect...
does not have to be fancy just trucate, adsr, and
filter options.
Kevin Kelley
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I would like to run a sampler program and a
good
sound card on a sun sparc solaris 9 platfrom. Does
anyone have any recomendations??
What do you want to do with it? I mean, what is the
purpose of
running the sampler? Music making? Sound effects?
...?
I have a very simple OSC-controlled sampler that
I've been working on
for a project of my own. You're welcome to give it
a go if it fits
your needs.
J
Kevin Kelley
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6 Jul
6 Jul
9:54 a.m.
If your hardware has an onboard soundchip, it is supported by
Solaris. If you are willing to use that (maybe you even have
a line out/in on you machine) you could get some good results
with Solaris. Try running audioctl and check if you have
/dev/audio and /dev/audioctl.
If your hardware does not have anboard audio, it's not good
enough, or you want to use another card, you should use Linux.
If you do decide to stay with Solaris, you pretty much have to
setup a OSS build environment (gcc, libraries) in order to build
your free sampler of choice. Not as difficult as it sounds, with
the help of pkg-get.
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anyone have any recomendations??
Kevin Kelley
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