Hi, Looks like my initial problem will be that I don't have PortAudio installed, so I'll have to deal with that. Also, do you (or Port Audio) support Jack? Thanks, Mark On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 16:48, Nick wrote:

Hi, No Port Audio doesn't use Jack yet but it will soon I think. I am looking into how to get Jack working, and also to make a Jack driver too. You'll also need FLTK 1.1.3 as well. Put libportaudio.so somewhere on your library path. It is extremely easy to compile just make -f Makefile.linux and than copy the library to your path. FLTK is linked statically. Oh the includes must be somewhere too, I put them all in /usr/include. On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 20:33, Mark Knecht wrote:

Okie dokie, there is no rush, I'm not going anywhere hehe. I'm still working away on it each day. I didn't go to school to make synthesizers so I learn the only way I know how, by experimenting and reading everythign I can find about it. You can hear a sample I did, ignore the initial click, it doesn't that in real-time. I'm figuring out why it does that. But Port Audio is really not hard to compile and get working either. Just run the make -f Makefile.linux, and copy the libportaudio.so to your /usr/lib directory. FLTK is a little harder though, but maybe CCRMA planet thing has it. I link statically because I use some cool widgets I found from another project that won't compile yet. Well good luck and all and thanks for interest it is lonely no one has shown any interest yet but I've only been working on it for a month or two. I have made alot of effort to make sure it does not alias and the filters sound good. Really, the filters are the most important part, so I did alot of hard work on them. A real analog synth will have variations in the waveform, but I have experimented, and it doesn't make that much of a difference to be honest. I tried simulating condensor unloading by different means to round off the waveform, it really didn't make any difference. I made variations on the amplitude and clipping, not much of a difference. I tried clipping the sawtooth to get a 303 style saw, didn't make that much difference, but it sounded more squarish. I think the filter is really what makes an analog synth sound so good or bad. I want to translate a Curtis VCF into LaPlace formula and than bilinear transform it into Z domain (digital). I found a cool paper on the moog, where he did the hard work to make the Laplace transform already, and I just did that with bilinear into digital. Than I double sampled it to get it stable. It sounds pretty close to a real Moog filter but not exactly ( I had the real thing). The hard part was figuring out I had to double sample it (resonance would blow out the filter otherwise). Also, it didn't work with 32-bit floats correctly, but I notice no difference in using doubles anyways, other than twice the memory requirments which reminds me I need to look and see how much memory it is using. Eeek! I forgot to only make 1 static buffer for the waveforms, it was taking 230 mb of RAM!! I just fixed it it should only take about 32mb. Ok now it's fixed, I forgot about that... See yah!

Nick, I don't know, but I don't think so. I asked this question once about 6 months ago and didn't get answers that made me think it would work, although a couple of people thought it might work. If you wanted to try, then you'd need to at least try the first few steps where you load the kernel and Alsa. However, there you have to choose RH 7.2, 7.3 or 8.0. I guess you'd have to know which one was the closes to your Mandrake distribution. I'm really not qualified to give any recommendations on this stuff. I'm not a programmer at all. Maybe others will have a better idea. Have you tried RH 8.0? That has worked very well on all my machines. Good luck, Mark On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:53, Nick wrote:

hi, i had some *bad* install problems with a few distro installs and they went away after i burned a new image. my cd's must be too cheap ;-) what i have been wondering: my md5sum check of the ISO image before burning is always okay (indicating a correct download). just the burner sometimes does not burn it okay on the disk. is there a way to verify the content of a burned cd versus the original ISO image file??? thanks, ALEX --- Nick <nicktsocanos(a)charter.net> wrote: > Yep, I tried Red Hat 8.0 too. When it gets to CD2, it starts to __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer

el 30 Mar 2003 16:53:12 -0500 Nick <nicktsocanos(a)charter.net> escribió: DISCLAIMER: i don't use neither redhat nor mandrake, so i can't give further comments, but here's a link to turnkey, a project in some ways simmilar to planet ccrma, but specific to mandrake: http://www.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/home.html and here's thac's (?) collection of sound rpm's, also mandrake specific: http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.0.html sigh... sometimes i envy those lucky people using standard distributions... a feeling that never last long, though, it disappears as soon as i actually try to use one of them... :-)

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 07:48:13 -0500, Nick wrote: You dont have to, thats one of the great things about Linux :) Just stick the source tarball somewhere and if people like it they will make pacages for thier distribution. Most people are happy to just install from source anyway. - Steve