[LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Ost
Hi, We are considering using PortAudio for Linux hardware support (and Windows/Mac as well). What's the word on the quality, reliability, ease-of-programming, latency and performance in Linux? Our product (Receptor) is used in live situations by non-programmers, so the support can't be "tweaky

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Ost wrote: > Hi, > > We are considering using PortAudio for Linux hardware support (and > Windows/Mac as well). What's the word on the quality, reliability, > ease-of-programming, latency and performance in Linux? it works. its development seems to be an i

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Ost
Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Ost wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We are considering using PortAudio for Linux hardware support (and >> Windows/Mac as well). What's the word on the quality, reliability, >> ease-of-programming, latency and performance in Linux? > > it works. its

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Michael Ost wrote: > Paul Davis wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Ost >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are considering using PortAudio for Linux hardware support (and >>> Windows/Mac as well). What's the word on the quality, reliability, >>> ea

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-12 Thread fons
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:15:33AM -0800, Michael Ost wrote: > We are considering using PortAudio for Linux hardware support (and > Windows/Mac as well). What's the word on the quality, reliability, > ease-of-programming, latency and performance in Linux? > > Our product (Receptor) is used in l

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-12 Thread Stéphane Letz
Le 12 janv. 2010 à 19:38, Paul Davis a écrit : > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Michael Ost wrote: >> Paul Davis wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Ost >>> wrote: Hi, We are considering using PortAudio for Linux hardware support (and Windows/Ma

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Ost
Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Michael Ost wrote: >> Paul Davis wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Ost >>> wrote: Hi, We are considering using PortAudio for Linux hardware support (and Windows/Mac as well). What's the word on the quality,

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-12 Thread Stéphane Letz
> case. OTOH, stephane does have a trick in jack2 whereby you can make > the app *become* the server, and then run the app, so to speak, as an > internal client, so that there is no IPC overhead at all. i don't know > if this works in windows. Well the "trick" in question is that the code using th

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Stéphane Letz wrote: > > Le 12 janv. 2010 à 19:38, Paul Davis a écrit : >> I don't think that is true, but its not clear that you want your >> product based on a server/client model anyway. The windows >> installation seems to work quite well, but it requires an >

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-12 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 01/12/2010 07:15 PM, Michael Ost wrote: > We are considering using PortAudio for Linux hardware support (and > Windows/Mac as well). What's the word on the quality, reliability, > ease-of-programming, latency and performance in Linux? PortAudio on Linux is very reliable in my experience. It's

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Ost
Olivier Guilyardi wrote: > On 01/12/2010 07:15 PM, Michael Ost wrote: >> We are considering using PortAudio for Linux hardware support (and >> Windows/Mac as well). What's the word on the quality, reliability, >> ease-of-programming, latency and performance in Linux? > > PortAudio on Linux is ve

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-13 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
Michael Ost: > > Paul Davis wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Ost wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are considering using PortAudio for Linux hardware support (and >>> Windows/Mac as well). What's the word on the quality, reliability, >>> ease-of-programming, latency and performance in L

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-13 Thread Folderol
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:20:31 +0100 (CET) "Kjetil S. Matheussen" wrote: > > Michael Ost: > > > > Paul Davis wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Michael Ost wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> We are considering using PortAudio for Linux hardware support (and > >>> Windows/Mac as well). What's

Re: [LAD] PortAudio experience

2010-01-13 Thread Victor Lazzarini
The only issue I currently have with PortAudio is that it does not work very well with pulseaudio. It seems to have problems using the alsa-plugin mechanism. I have mentioned this on the portaudio list, but none of the developers responded, only a couple of other users said they had similar