RE: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: Creative's IP concerns

2002-01-24 Thread Pieter
--cut--- *Are* any of creative's competitors releasing specs for chips that do advanced effects? I understand RME and MidiMan have been quite open, but they use FPGA chips, and am I right in thinking those are off-the-shelf chips with already open specs? FPGA (= 'Field Programmable Gate

Re: Giftware mechanics, was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards: USB, Firewire, PCI, PCMCIA

2002-01-24 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:16:46 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote: discriminate. ;-/ And the receiver takes the hit, AFAIKT the payer doesn't pay anything. Erm, it doesn't really make any difference who has to pay! - Steve

Re: [linux-audio-dev] ALL RIGHT!! linux support comes first!!

2002-01-24 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:40:56 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Initially, Final Scratch will only be available for Linux and BeOS operating systems running on an Intel compatible CPU. A Mac version is planned. I can't imagine anyone releasing anything for BeOS anymore.

RE: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: Creative's IP concerns

2002-01-24 Thread Bob Ham
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 08:47, Pieter wrote: --cut--- *Are* any of creative's competitors releasing specs for chips that do advanced effects? I understand RME and MidiMan have been quite open, but they use FPGA chips, and am I right in thinking those are off-the-shelf chips with already

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: Creative's IP concerns

2002-01-24 Thread Paul Davis
After actually looking at the rme site, it appears that their cards aren't actually a good example of openness for creative to follow; they're concerned about the dsp functions on their chips (reverb and what-not.) Still, it shows them some of their competitors are not so secretive. precisely.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] EVO status...was: (open-source like hardware)

2002-01-24 Thread Paul Davis
--- quote from s3000xl manual, pg. 261 --- Start: Here, you can set the method by which a take will commence playback. The options are: IMMEDIATE - This will cause the take to commence playback as soon as you press PRME - F8. MIDI NOTE - This will cause the take to playback when it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] ALL RIGHT!! linux support comes first!!

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: Thanks for the message, Paul. I teach at a local music store, so I asked the owners if they'd ever heard of Stanton. I didn't realize what a profile they have in the DJ industry, they're definitely a big name, and this news is definitely good. Btw, has anyone ever used (or know

[linux-audio-dev] how to spin a phase vocoder into a $5K h/w product

2002-01-24 Thread Paul Davis
although there might be something interesting in here, i can't help but feel revulsion at what appears to me to be an amazing level of bullshit marketing obfuscation here: http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM02/Content/Hartmann_Music/PR/Neuron.html the idea, however, seems pretty cool to have

RE: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: Creative's IP concerns

2002-01-24 Thread M. Edward Borasky
I'd still like to know if there are any other companies out there giving out specs for their dsp chips.. can anyone canonically tell me yay or nay? Certainly for conventional DSP chips, like the TI, Motorola and Analog Devices families, there are reams upon reams of user-level documentation,

Re: LADSPA plugs, was: Re: [linux-audio-dev] ALL RIGHT!! linux support comes first!!

2002-01-24 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Robert Jonsson wrote: Here's a project to do some more LADSPA plugs, I found it just the other day. Haven't tried any of it, have no idea what they are aimed at. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jezabel/ I don't think this guy is on the list. It would be nice:

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: Creative's IP concerns

2002-01-24 Thread Bob Ham
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 14:51, Paul Davis wrote: precisely. rme are quite happy releasing specs to right a driver; they are not planning on releasing specs to write new FX. its worth noting that rme have said publically that it took them quite a long time and quite a lot of really deep

Re: [linux-audio-dev] ALL RIGHT!! linux support comes first!!

2002-01-24 Thread nixx
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:10:56 +0100 Vincent Touquet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting that stanton are selling it, I don't think they developed it, could be wrong though. They mention on their site that some people in the Netherlands developed it. Dunno if they were Stanton employees. I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: Creative's IP concerns

2002-01-24 Thread Paul Davis
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 14:51, Paul Davis wrote: precisely. rme are quite happy releasing specs to right a driver; they are not planning on releasing specs to write new FX. its worth noting that rme have said publically that it took them quite a long time and quite a lot of really deep

RE: [linux-audio-dev] Fwd: Creative's IP concerns

2002-01-24 Thread Bob Ham
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 14:14, Bob Ham wrote: I'd still like to know if there are any other companies out there giving out specs for their dsp chips.. can anyone canonically tell me yay or nay? Should have been more specific: any *sound card* companies giving out specs for their (sound card)

Re: [linux-audio-dev] EVO status...was: (open-source like hardware)

2002-01-24 Thread Paul Kellett
Yes, that rings a bell. I think it was on the S3000 at least, it was only stereo+monophonic, but if it had instant start it must have chached (the scsi controller in the 3000 was very slow). The Akai S1100 and S3200 (and S3000 with an upgrade) could play back recordings from hard disk. I'm

Re: [linux-audio-dev] ALL RIGHT!! linux support comes first!!

2002-01-24 Thread Vincent Touquet
Hm, but as they will be using their own distro of Linux, they _have_ to provide the sources (thank you GPL). Of course not for their application, but that who prevents you from copying the binary and using it on another system ? The fact that they are using Linux is just great by itself. If I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] more news (was:EVO status)

2002-01-24 Thread Marek Peteraj
Have a look here: http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM02/Content/Native_Instruments/PR/Kontakt.html Marek

Re: Giftware mechanics, was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards: USB, Firewire, PCI, PCMCIA

2002-01-24 Thread Paul Winkler
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:12:17AM +, Steve Harris wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:16:46 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote: discriminate. ;-/ And the receiver takes the hit, AFAIKT the payer doesn't pay anything. Erm, it doesn't really make any difference who has to pay! Sure it does.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] ALL RIGHT!! linux support comes first!!

2002-01-24 Thread Paul Winkler
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:52:13AM +, Steve Harris wrote: If they're smart, they'll add LADSPA support. That would be way cool. I don't think they'd want to do that. Running out of cpu juice could compromise thier time tracking code and make it unreliable. Hmm, maybe so. didn't