[LAD] Linux Audio Conference 2010: Call for Papers now open

2009-11-24 Thread Frank Neumann
Dear reader, as has been announced here 2 days ago by Marc Groenewegen, the next Linux Audio Conference (LAC#8) will take place at the HKM in Utrecht, Netherlands, from May 1st - 4th, 2010 (see http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010). We have now opened the Website that accepts paper submissions. Please

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 16:53 +0100, Adrian Knoth wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:53:02AM +, Bob Ham wrote: > > > local sessions are a subset of the functionality provided by network > > sessions > > If you want to have network transparency inside the audio framework, > this perspective mig

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread fons
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:17:18PM +0100, Adrian Knoth wrote: > I've been in several studios with tons of expensive equipment, however, > all this stuff was packed in a single room, usually around a decent > mixing console or a computer with multichannel audio I/O (ProTools, > Tascam, RME, whateve

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread fons
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:46:44PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > Agreed. What I consider central is the idea of set of event sources, > and event loop and handlers for events that are injected into the > loop. There is no common framework for this on Unix, there never has > been and as long design po

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM,   wrote: >> The problem I pointed out exists when the 'real' loop (in >> the C, C++ sense), in other words the while() thing above, >> is completely absorbed into a GUI toolkit. > > you can view it that way aroun

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Folderol
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:46:02 +0100 (CET) k...@aspodata.se (Karl Hammar) wrote: > Adrian Knoth: > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:48:53AM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: > > > So ich habe mal was zusammengedichtet > > > > > The rationale in brief: > > > > > No proprietry hardware soundcard needed. > >

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Folderol
Wow! A lot been said since I opened my mouth :o First an apology! When I started this thread I CC'd LAU hoping to just bring interested people over. I didn't expect the cross-post deluge that followed - Sorry. I won't do it again :( For those in doubt the original discussion started over on LAU

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:24 PM, wrote: > An event loop (as I use the term) is just something of the > form > > while (running) > { >   E = wait_for_events(); >   process_event(E); > } Sure. > In process_event() the first selection would be on event > origin. Messages from you other threads fo

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Karl Hammar
Adrian Knoth: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:46:02PM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: > > Well, you have to start somewhere. I'm not in this to compete with > > Behringer ADA8000, I'm in this to fiddle around with soldering. > WTF? Soldering is what it takes to make the product. If soldering is the > motiv

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Karl Hammar
Florian Faber: > Karl Hammar wrote: > > [..ethernet transports..] > > And we are missing an open protocol for this. > What is wrong with netjack? It's made for point-to-point and very > simple. You just have to solve the clock issue unless you want to lose > bit transparency. Ohh, sorry, I got the

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread fons
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:55:39PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > I'm not quite sure what you mean, but my initial interpretation of > this suggests a goal that is a little absurd to me. The design of the > event loop is where the design of a GUI toolkit starts, because the > event loop needs to be ab

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Florian Faber
Kevin Cosgrove wrote: >> Yes, there is an overview over protocols here: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_over_Ethernet > Seems like the latter reference is quite far ahead of the IEEE > thoughts. And how many of them are open standards? Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have tim

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:02 PM, wrote: > 1. Almost all GUI toolkits mix up a few things that should >   remain well separated: > >   - Getting X11 events, >   - Handling X11 events, >   - Creating a framework for messaging (events + data) >     between threads, and if you are lucky a RT-safe A

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:04:59 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Adrian Knoth > >> All we need is a decent plugin API, and LV2 seems to be the choice. > > It is looking increasingly like that, but there are still issues that > are not solved. You still will not be able t

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Adrian Knoth wrote: >On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:46:02PM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: >> Well, you have to start somewhere. I'm not in this to compete with >> Behringer ADA8000, I'm in this to fiddle around with soldering. > >WTF? Soldering is what it takes to make the prod

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread fons
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:12:59AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > This just isn't true on "bare" unix systems, where the insistence on > choice and flexibility and "developer driven" approaches to almost > everything have ruled out such a common core. There are at least to separate aspects to this pr

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:46:02PM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: > Well, you have to start somewhere. I'm not in this to compete with > Behringer ADA8000, I'm in this to fiddle around with soldering. WTF? Soldering is what it takes to make the product. If soldering is the motivation for the project,

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Adrian Knoth > wrote: > >> I wonder why Linux Audio always reinvents the wheel. Just look at the >> Win32 side: VST-Instruments, then put your favourite EQ on the outputs >> and your mastering compressor somew

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Adrian Knoth wrote: > I wonder why Linux Audio always reinvents the wheel. Just look at the > Win32 side: VST-Instruments, then put your favourite EQ on the outputs > and your mastering compressor somewhere else. Still modular, but > provides total recall. In th

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Adrian Knoth wrote: >On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:48:53AM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: >> So ich habe mal was zusammengedichtet >> >> > > The rationale in brief: >> > > No proprietry hardware soundcard needed. >> > > Almost all modern computers have reasonably fast Ethe

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:53:02AM +, Bob Ham wrote: > local sessions are a subset of the functionality provided by network > sessions If you want to have network transparency inside the audio framework, this perspective might be true. But you could also ignore network on the audio level and

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Florian Faber
Karl Hammar wrote: >> [RockNet, Roland Digital Snake, Ethersound] >>> That tells us that it should be doable. But of cause we want an open >>> protocol. Do you know the capacity limits of those systems? >> Approximately what you could expect from a 100MBit/s link. At least 32 >> channels, rocknet

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Karl Hammar
Adrian Knoth: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:48:53AM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: > > So ich habe mal was zusammengedichtet > > > > The rationale in brief: > > > > No proprietry hardware soundcard needed. > > > > Almost all modern computers have reasonably fast Ethernet connections. > > > Don't kno

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:48:53AM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: > So ich habe mal was zusammengedichtet > > > The rationale in brief: > > > No proprietry hardware soundcard needed. > > > Almost all modern computers have reasonably fast Ethernet connections. > > Don't know how much you already did

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Ray Rashif
Hmm..this is definitely interesting. When specs and schematics are up, if the hardware is within my budget, I'll most certainly be testing the idea. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Florian Faber
Fons! >> In the broadcast/studio segment, transport over ethernet is already in >> use by some manufacturers. > In the segment of large fixed audio installations (airports, > train stations, cruise ships, etc.) things like Cobranet have > been in use for many years - the savings in wiring costs a

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread fons
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:26:04AM +0100, Florian Faber wrote: > > I wonder why no company took up this idea already, it seems so sleek and > > logical. (Almost) every computer has ethernet and the ethernet standard > > is (in my experience) problem free... > > A lot of companies are working on

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Hans Wilmers
Florian Faber wrote: > Atte André Jensen wrote: > > >> I wonder why no company took up this idea already, it seems so sleek and >> logical. (Almost) every computer has ethernet and the ethernet standard >> is (in my experience) problem free... >> > > A lot of companies are working on this

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Florian Faber
Atte André Jensen wrote: > I wonder why no company took up this idea already, it seems so sleek and > logical. (Almost) every computer has ethernet and the ethernet standard > is (in my experience) problem free... A lot of companies are working on this, but for anything but a simple audio in/au

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Karl Hammar
Nick Copeland: > Adrian Knoth: > > I'm also somewhat interested in the network part, I feel IPv6 could help > > a lot. It supports autoconfiguration and it has decent multicast > > support, so it would be possible to broadcast/multicast the streams on > > the net (LAN). This could be useful if you

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-24 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 09:17 +1100, Loki Davison wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Adrian Knoth > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:26:06PM +, Bob Ham wrote: > > > >> I have never understood why D-Bus was even considered for a network-wide > >> audio session system. > > > > Just cu

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Karl Hammar
Adrian Knoth: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:28:03PM +, Folderol wrote: > > > The rationale in brief: > > No proprietry hardware soundcard needed. > > Almost all modern computers have reasonably fast Ethernet connections. > > Don't know how much you already did for the hardware layout. If > pos