27 Apr
2005
27 Apr
'05
2:19 a.m.
Is anyone aware of what might be the best open source audio
mixing package to start hacking something like the Castblaster
that is aurally (partly) described where ?
http://homepage.mac.com/dailysourcecode/DSC/DSC-2005-04-25.mp3
Any hints to shorten the devel cycle for a project like this
would be gratefully appreciated. I'm chasing up some funding
to hopefully subsidise a developer if one wants to get involved.
No, tweaking PD is not my idea of getting aunt tillie into
podcasting on linux, she needs a lightbulb that "just works" :-)
--markc
10 May
10 May
7:44 a.m.
New subject: Fwd: Re: [linux-audio-user] Castblaster clone
Joseph Zitt <jzitt(a)metatronpress.com> wrote:
Mark Constable wrote:
I'm looking into using this...
http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/
it's way overkill for casual usage but OTOH it could
make for an excellent production suite for regular
podcasting.
--markc
Is anyone aware of what might be the best open
source audio
mixing package to start hacking something like the Castblaster
that is aurally (partly) described here ?
Did anyone respond to this? I'm curious myself, since
I'd also like to podcast from within Linux without
having to build everything from scratch. 
3:05 p.m.
New subject: Fwd: Re: [linux-audio-user] Castblaster clone
Mark Constable wrote:
I'm looking into using this...
http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/
it's way overkill for casual usage but OTOH it could
make for an excellent production suite for regular
podcasting.
Wow, quite impressive! I'm going to have to dive into the docs. I
notice, though, that it only has RPMs for SUSE, and I'm running
Mandriva. I wonder how compatible it would be.
3:09 p.m.
New subject: Fwd: Re: [linux-audio-user] Castblaster clone
Joseph Zitt wrote:
Mark Constable wrote:
There's also some people that have developed unofficial debian packages
of Rivendell, don't know what Mandriva uses.
http://wiki.tryphon.org/Tryphon_Debian_archiver
I'm looking into using this...
http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/
it's way overkill for casual usage but OTOH it could
make for an excellent production suite for regular
podcasting.
Wow, quite impressive! I'm going to have to dive into the docs. I
notice, though, that it only has RPMs for SUSE, and I'm running
Mandriva. I wonder how compatible it would be. 
24 May
24 May
10:23 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Digital mixer advice
Hi all, I've been lurking this list for years... just finished school...
got a job... and got the ccrma disks and just went crazy for a while.
SO I'm succesfully multi-tracking in Ardour - using/syncing with
hydrogen and editing wav files with audacity.
First off this software is a total blast!
My hardware is a 2.26GHz PIV and an ASSUS MOBO, SBLIVEEMU101K, 512MB RAM
and old cheap everything else. I find I can have disk XRUN problems
with four tracks of audio and 48ksampling... knocking down the sampling
rate helps... using any video card related function... like moving the
mixing panel... doesn't help :) I've got lots of guitars... amps...
basses bongos etc. and an old roland synth.
Couple of questions... editing audio from Ardour... what is the most
well used solution?
Will using flux box instead of GNOME see me an improvement in my audio
performance.
I used to use this product from propeller heads... I forget what it was
called but you could put a sampled drum loop in, and it would extract
info like bpm, and line it up for you etc. any equivalents in OS?
Lastly I am looking at getting either a digital mixer with say 8-16 ins
and a digital in card to interface with linux... or getting a faster
system and AD/DA/midi/digital in/out card.
Could some you you with either setup let me know the brand names/models
you are working with and how its going for you...so I can go do some
research? There are so many options I just don't know where to begin.
I'd like to see stuff that is really well supported by ALSA/ardour. Is
there a generally accepted best way to do this say at Stanford U or
elsewhere?
Again thanks all
10:46 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Digital mixer advice
Nick Torenvliet wrote:
I used to use this product from propeller heads... I
forget what it was
called but you could put a sampled drum loop in, and it would extract
info like bpm, and line it up for you etc.
Recycle.
any equivalents in OS?
Freecycle?
Erik
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11:25 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Digital mixer advice
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:27:20 -0400, Nick Torenvliet wrote:
Lastly I am looking at getting either a digital mixer
with say 8-16 ins
and a digital in card to interface with linux... or getting a faster
system and AD/DA/midi/digital in/out card.
I use a yamaha 01v digital mixer with ADAT card, and a hammerfall, but
FWIW if I were replacing my studio today I would probably do without the
mixer and just use decent outboard ADAT converters and a ADAT PCI card.
I'd use a smaller analogue mixer for when I needed outboard downmixing.
Digital mixers are a bit pricey considering how often I mostly use mine as
a AD/DA converter. You can do more sophisiticated routing with 1 or 2 ADAT
AD/DA converters and JACK with some apps.
- Steve
12:18 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Digital mixer advice
On 5/24/05, Nick Torenvliet <torenvliet(a)bmts.com> wrote:
[SNIP]
My hardware is a 2.26GHz PIV and an ASSUS MOBO,
SBLIVEEMU101K, 512MB RAM
and old cheap everything else. I find I can have disk XRUN problems
with four tracks of audio and 48ksampling... knocking down the sampling
rate helps... using any video card related function... like moving the
mixing panel... doesn't help :) I've got lots of guitars... amps...
basses bongos etc. and an old roland synth.
[SNIP]
Will using flux box instead of GNOME see me an
improvement in my audio
performance.
[SNIPPY SNIP SNIP]
On my RH9 PlanetCCRMA box, I would see sometimes see xruns under GNOME
recording just one track. Rather than figure out the problem, I
installed XFCE, set up it in way that suited me (taskbar in the panel,
menu of commonly used audio apps on the panel, etc.). No more
trouble. openbox (similar to fluxbox) also worked, but wasn't a
comfortable environment (mostly because, without lots of tweaking,
everything is done through root menus, but the root window on my
desktop is NEVER visible).
1:50 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Digital mixer advice
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 13:27, Nick Torenvliet wrote:
My hardware is a 2.26GHz PIV and an ASSUS MOBO,
SBLIVEEMU101K, 512MB RAM
the sblibe is enough for starting, I have one too. you should try to get a
livedrive if you don't have one -> more io-ports directly accessible from the
front.
Will using flux box instead of GNOME see me an
improvement in my audio
performance.
As Gnome is a similar cpu-hook as KDE (which I am using) I can tell you that
it gets better with fluxbox, which is also my choice for audio-work.
Additionally you should try to get one of the various realtime-patches
running, I recommend realtime-lsm...
Lastly I am looking at getting either a digital mixer
with say 8-16 ins
and a digital in card to interface with linux... or getting a faster
system and AD/DA/midi/digital in/out card.
I wouldn't do that, mixing in ardour has the advantage that it saves the
settings without problems inside your project. with an external mixer you
have to store these settings externally. Even for monitoring and aux-ports
there is a solution (not quite finished :-) ) : JackMix (*)
Again thanks all
You're welcome.
Arnold
(*) http://roederberg.dyndns.org/~arnold/jackmix
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10 May
10 May
4:33 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] RME Mixer Linux
HI all
Have any of you managed to get a mixer configured or available for the
RME Digi3296 cards.
If not will jack control the sample rate of the card?
This mean we don't need to access the card directly
to change clock setting ie: master or slave.
I see that RME is supported in Alsa, and indeed I have managed to multi
track with the card.
Is there a download/driver I need to find.
Cheers
Bob
5:36 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] RME Mixer Linux
Frank smith wrote on Tue, 10-May-2005:
HI all
Have any of you managed to get a mixer configured or available for the
RME Digi3296 cards.
Unfortunately you have the product name wrong. Check and report
very carefully what card you have because RME's naming conventions
are very confusing. http://www.rme-audio.com/english/index.htm
RME's older Hammerfall DIGI series include the DIGI9652 and DIGI9636
and are multichannel digital cards. These do not have an onboard
mixer, but you can use the tool 'rmedigicontrol' in the alsa-tools
package to set the clock flags, I think.
The recent Hammerfall HDSP series include the HDSP9652, HDSP9632,
and other breakout boxes (digiface, multiface). These all have
a powerful builtin matrix mixer and many configuration options.
The tools 'hdspmixer' and 'hdspconf' can be used to control them.
If not will jack control the sample rate of the card?
Yes, in general. The HDSP cards that support higher rates (>=96k)
may need to be set by the conf tool before starting jack. This
might be unnecessary in the latest drivers, not sure.
jlc
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