On 4/21/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht <markknecht <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > Are there enough people using Gentoo for realtime audio that it > > would warrent some sorrt of specialized kernel project? I expect so. > > Is there interest? How do we start one? > > YES, I'm extremely interested in RT for audio on Gentoo. I have an > EE buddy that is building Audio Productions systems (speakers and custom > amplifiers, for a 50,000 Watt outdoor audio system. He's manually controlling > everything now, and using bits of a windows software which is expensive > and problematic. He'd love the ability to use Linux (gentoo). I've promised > to set up a Gentoo system for him to house the pci audio cards > and controls his gear/audio streams. > > I've got a 5,000 watt system, I'm building up to DJ weddings and > parites.I waiting Doc to finish my Custom built Subwoofers that go > down to 14 Hz, and Subwoofer amps that have a very clean low_pass > filter to drive those subs!
Sounds like fun stuff. > > He needs about 64 channels of analog(audio IO) in the form of high end > audio cards with multiple input/output channels. Probably a couple of RME HDSP 9652s sync'ed via word clock would get you pretty close at 52 channels. I use the card and it works very well under Linux with low latency realtime kernels. Is this just for live work? Not primarily recording? If si I thinkn you could also look into customized delay plugins to ensure that different speak systems are in time with each other. Anyway, fun stuff. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
