Re: [LAD] FULL audio-signal path

2007-07-21 Thread Dan Mills
On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 14:42 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi, All! > > Say, we have such audio-chain: > > 1. analogue source (say, mic-amp), Adds noise. > 2. sound card's line input (let sound card be rme hdsp9632), Soundcard must dither correctly (This sorts the linearity of the quantisatio

Re: [LAD] FULL audio-signal path

2007-07-22 Thread Dan Mills
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 09:45 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > On 21 Jul 2007, at 13:56, Dan Mills wrote: > > Be very careful how you write float->int conversions (it is not > > trivial), and work in floating point as far as is possible, there is > > little reason (other th

Re: [LAD] "enhanced event port" LV2 extension proposal

2007-11-28 Thread Dan Mills
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 19:07 -0500, Dave Robillard wrote: > > Same with LV2 ports; works perfectly for port types. Problem is, > sticking a URI in each /event/ is far too bloated/slow. > I am coming horribly late to this discussion, so I might be being thick, but what happens if each event con

Re: [LAD] SoundMAX AD1988A/AD1988B

2008-05-19 Thread Dan Mills
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 20:57 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > http://www.analog.com/UploadedFiles/Data_Sheets/AD1988A_1988B.pdf#xml=http://search.analog.com/search/pdfPainter.aspx?url=http://www.analog.com/UploadedFiles/Data_Sheets/AD1988A_1988B.pdf&fterm=pcm&fterm=pcm&la=en > > .. appears to b

Re: [LAD] embedded high end audio

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Mills
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 15:31 -0500, Eric Shattow wrote: > Correction: the Indigo IO is 2 in / 2 out; the Indigo DJ is 0 in, 4 > out > > Unless I am mistaken. > > I'm guessing that the F/OSS options are basically: > > Custom board design with PCI envy24 chipset => ALSA : JACK / ~2ms > IEEE1394 d

Re: [LAD] embedded high end audio

2008-07-30 Thread Dan Mills
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 20:21 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > Heh, this might be crazy enough to work, with O_DIRECT|O_SYNC and > exclusive access to the raw block device. > Heck, I've seen embedded audio devices that implement PCM as a stream > of MIDI messages ;-) > > Wouldn't recommend it if your t

Re: [LAD] OT: alternative fuel for cars [was: Re: Car engine sound emulation for future electic cars. ideas ?]

2008-08-05 Thread Dan Mills
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 20:21 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Sorry, but that forum is located in just the right place: in the > vicinity of other pseudoscientists and ufologists. Water has been > their favourite topic for ages (I mentioned the "Age of Aquarius" > deliberately). If you want some mor

Re: [LAD] Wireless Electricity vs audio quality

2008-08-25 Thread Dan Mills
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 09:38 -0400, Fred Gleason wrote: > I can sure vouch for the truth of this. Been in enough high-power > broadcasting plants (>=50 kW) at both MW and FM frequencies to see it lots of > times. It can be a real bugbear, especially with consumer or even semi-pro > gear. Even

Re: [LAD] Realtime and helper threads

2008-08-25 Thread Dan Mills
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 14:56 +0200, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: > Hi Dan, > > why don't you answer on the mailing list? I thought I had! > > That is a fairly common approach, one thread per core is good. I have > > code that reads audio, sample rate converts it, time-stretches it if > > appropriate

Re: [LAD] [Jack-Devel] jackd/jackdbus : D-Bus or not D-Bus...

2009-05-19 Thread Dan Mills
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 21:03 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Both are examples of braindead ways to do things, > both originate from the same source. Dbus ties > jackd to the desktop and is just one more example > of the same insane evolution. Indeed. I might be way off base, but what is wrong wi

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0

2009-08-23 Thread Dan Mills
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 18:57 +1000, Fraser wrote: > > The amount of headroom between 0dB on the VU to digital 0dB is selectable from > - -15dB to -3 dB. There is no right value for this, it really depends on the > music, so just pick whatever value that causes the VU to spend most of it's > time

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0

2009-08-23 Thread Dan Mills
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 18:26 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > - Bad! Having a VU meter that can be adjusted to allegedly be in sync > with some analogue VU meter never ever will be fine. Compare margin for > your digital meters and the meters on your mixing console by playing the > same song seve

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0

2009-08-23 Thread Dan Mills
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 20:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On English, for international broadcasting you need different > adjustments. But then it's important that the meter is informed about > the analogue mixer of the sound card too ;). I guess it will become > nearly impossible to fit a dB

Re: [LAD] [semi-OT] midi snakes using CAT5?

2009-11-01 Thread Dan Mills
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 12:56 -0400, Raymond Martin wrote: > > 15 meters is a recommendation based on typical cables used in a simple system. > Data corruption ensues somewhere after 15m, depending on cable quality, EMI, > and so forth. I would imagine a CAT5 as having better shielding and IIRC runs

Re: [LAD] [semi-OT] midi snakes using CAT5?

2009-11-01 Thread Dan Mills
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 10:52 +1100, David wrote: > Another thing about the that MIDI spec is where it says "optoisolators > ... rise and fall times should be less than 2 microseconds" which is > amusing because the total time of one midi bit is 3.2 microseconds. So > don't imagine you have nice squ

Re: [LAD] Help to choose an audio library for a project

2009-11-07 Thread Dan Mills
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 17:33 +0100, Ludovic RESLINGER wrote: > Hello, > > I'm student in computer science and for one of my projects, I > would like to program an audio player. > > The player will be developed for GNU/Linux environment but I would like > to use an audio library which permit a port

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-12-07 Thread Dan Mills
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 23:34 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > But take into account that 192 kHz is the same > type of marketing scam as gold-plated optical > connectors. In other words completely useless. ...For audio! However, I am seeing something being discussed that could potentially ha

Re: [LAD] Anyone testing the new TerminatorX release?

2010-01-31 Thread Dan Mills
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:37 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > >http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/FAQ.html#Q020 > > When the patents expire I'll support MP3. > Well, MPEG 1 layer II is (as far as I can tell) due to expire this year and supporting it as both a raw mp2 file and as a compr

Re: [LAD] Anyone testing the new TerminatorX release?

2010-01-31 Thread Dan Mills
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:53 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Sure! As long as its LGPL compatible code and not your pipe/dup2/execve > hack :-). While that is undeniably a hack of the first order, it does hide a certain truth in that a lot of the lossy audio codecs out there have a bit of a

Re: [LAD] Need some _basic_ help...

2010-06-13 Thread Dan Mills
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 12:14 -0700, Rory Filer wrote: > * What's the general flow of the data from the disk file (or > streaming audio source) to the device driver? Is it: MP3file > -> streaming software -> codec -> driver or// MP3file -> > streaming software -> Codec

Re: [LAD] No nagging, a serious question

2010-07-04 Thread Dan Mills
On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 22:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 20:57 +0100, James Morris wrote: > > A comparison to the C64 is caring it to extremes, perhaps I should > compare to at least 80286. > It became very hard to learn and it was very easy years ago. Not (only) > failure by

Re: [LAD] [Fwd: Re: No nagging, a serious question]

2010-07-04 Thread Dan Mills
On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 22:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Good to read about this issue. I always disable the on-board audio > devices, but I would add a second PCI card to my PC and sync it with the > already installed sound card, so I better don't do it. It at least would > be nice to have sever

Re: [LAD] No nagging, a serious question

2010-07-04 Thread Dan Mills
On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 23:35 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > Well, at least those sound cards that provide both audio and midi > *could* do this - timestamp incoming midi and provide that info > in some way, and requiring similar time stamps for outgoing midi. Could do it even with separate m

Re: [LAD] [LAU] mudita24 1.02 -- improved envy24control mixer/router for ice1712-based sound-cards

2010-08-12 Thread Dan Mills
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 00:04 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > What an EQ is supposed to do doesn't in any way depend on the > signal level. As long as you don't have any non-linear things > in the signal chain (dynamics and some effects) it doesn't > matter where you do the EQ. Except that p

Re: [LAD] [OT] Richard Stallman warns against ChromeOS

2010-12-16 Thread Dan Mills
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 00:11 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > > Actually, it's quite swift and effective method; it's the cutting and > stripping of the wires that's a PITA, unless you have a really good > tool - which I didn't at the time! :-D Yep a good tool makes all the difference as does using

Re: [LAD] Looping audio to oneself via Jack

2011-05-04 Thread Dan Mills
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:23 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > But even that won't work if there is just one output connected > to the loopback input: the optimisation means its data is not > copied and you will see an empty buffer anyway. That seems likely to be the problem, but the internal met

Re: [LAD] Looping audio to oneself via Jack

2011-05-04 Thread Dan Mills
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:34 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Dan Mills wrote: > > > From your comments I take it that a patch to jack has been tried and > > rejected? > > it hasn't, and i was planning to cook one up since fons has finally

Re: [LAD] Looping audio to oneself via Jack

2011-05-04 Thread Dan Mills
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 22:13 +0200, torbenh wrote: > err... please describe how you dont want to break ardour with this > patch. (it would add N periods of latency) > > it probably is possible to fix this, but its not really clear to me, > how. I assume there is sufficient SHM available for the

Re: [LAD] a *simple* ring buffer, comments pls?

2011-07-11 Thread Dan Mills
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 00:12 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > > Real-time means "as fast as possible". Err not really. Real-time means "Has a bounded response time", locks generally put your completion time at the mercy of another process that is often not designed to have a bounded response time