Rick,
I'll be happy to do such a page at Csounds.com.
I'll need to wait, however, until the project is complete. Three things need
to happen:
1) The multiple MIDI controller option of 5.10 needs to be patched into the
Sugar Fedora updates (and shown to work);
2) This all needs to be available in a regular Sugar release (hopefully,
0.86 but probably later - until then, users/developers won't have easy
access to all the features of 5.10, and without updates the current and only
Sugar-on-a-Stick Strawberry [0.84] doesn't have a working Csound at all);
3) My Activities are properly posted at Sugar Labs (to be widely available).
They cannot be posted until #1 occurs, hopefully sometime in October,
according to Peter Robinson.
Meanwhile, we're nearly there.
Art Hunkins
- Original Message -
From: "Dr. Richard Boulanger"
To:
Cc: ; ;
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:32 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Fw: Re: Re: Re: Getting around a (sound) device
assignment problem in SoaS
Art,
Now that you have figured all this out, it would be cool for you to
create a SOS page for us at cSounds.com or Sourceforge. What do you
think. Victor showed me SOS a few months back and it was pretty
wonderful. I think that many csounders would like it especially if
all the pieces, links, tips and toots were all in one place.
Appreciating all your efforts in this area.
-Rick
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:25 AM, "Art Hunkins" wrote:
> I neglected to mention perhaps the most important fact of all: with SoaS,
> any MIDI controller(s) must be plugged in AFTER boot and BEFORE compiling
> a .csnd. Users must be given explicit instruction to this effect.
>
> Note that this limitation does not apply to the XO.
>
> My thoughts are:
> 1) Getting around this limitation is far more trouble that it's worth;
> 2) In the world of XO and Sugar-on-a-Stick a potential misunderstanding
> would arise rarely in any case.
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> - Original Message - From: "Art Hunkins"
> To:
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 4:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Getting around a (sound) device
> assignment problem in SoaS
>
>
>> Hi, Andres,
>>
>> With further experimentation, I've found that the following
>> will work fine for my purposes in the XO-1/Sugar-on-a- Stick context:
>> -odac -+rtaudio=alsa -+rtmidi=alsa -M hw:1,0
>>
>> Comments:
>> Alsa is low-latency as is supported (to this date) on all XO and SoaS
>> platforms.
>> -odac refers indeed to the default plughw and makes the conversions you
>> mention, at no apparent cost - whereas -odac:hw:0,0 does not. - odac will
>> thus work as long as there is a single (usually the builtin) hardware
>> device. This is something I can count on.
>> -M hw:1,0 will work as long as only one controller is attached (which I
>> can count on for my single-controller .csd's), and as long as any
>> built-in MIDI interface (rare these days, as Peter pointed out) is not
>> being used. I think I can count on MIDI being via USB. (If someone on
>> the outside chance *did* want to use a builtin MIDI interface, he can
>> change hw:1,0 to hw:0,0.)
>>
>> So, the above will work in all usual configurations, as long as:
>> built-in audio is used;
>> one USB MIDI controller is used
>>
>> For my multiple MIDI controller versions, these will use: -
>> +rtmidi=alsa -Ma
>> as soon as Peter finds the time to incorporate your multi- controller
>> patch.
>>
>> Once this is achieved, all my issues are settled, and I'll be a "happy
>> camper" (= find my joy).
>>
>> Art Hunkins
>>
>> - Original Message - From: "Andres Cabrera"
>> > >
>> To:
>> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 3:27 PM
>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Getting around a (sound) device assignment
>> problem in SoaS
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since there's been no reply, I'll take a stab, but I may be compeltely
>> wrong...
>>
>> I think alsa names hw: real hardware devices. Hardware devices can be
>> constrained as to the number of channels or sample rates supported.
>> There might be software interfaces to these devices (like the alsa
>> "default" interface), which are plughw: devices, which can take care
>> of sample rate conversion and different number of channels. To
>> override the default settings, you would need to mess with the
>> .asounrc file, which I wouldn't recommend since it might take you a
>> while, as it is not very documented.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andres
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Art Hunkins wrote:
>>> In starting down the road Victor suggests (and to solve the problem
>>> addressed in the subject), I immediately ran into an anomaly. I've no
>>> idea
>>> whether the issue is Csound's or Sugar/Linux.
>>>
>>> Description:
>>> In working with the XO-1, I settled on a stereo SR=32000. (This is the
>>> maximum SR I can use with my .csd's and get glitch-free sound on the
>>> XO-1.)
>>>
>>> I developed all my work using the -odac
>>>
>>> Faced with the fact o
