[linux-audio-dev] FWD: MWPP status report for IETF53

2002-03-05 Thread John Lazzaro
[LAD folks -- here's the status report for MWPP I just posted to the IETF AVT group, complete with a URL for the new MWPP document. --jl] --- Hi everyone, The latest revision of MWPP is out: >Title : The MIDI Wire Protocol Packetization (MWPP) >Author(s) : J.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Searching for midi-specification

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Davis
>> and as ever, anyone on LAD is free to write and ask me. i have the >> official docs from the MMA, and i'm quite willing to answer >> questions. > >Ok then :) >I was wondering, is there anything in the MIDI specification about the >difference between 'bulk dump' system exclusive and 'realtime'

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Davis
>IMHO a MIDI driver should be a (real time) user space process able to >accurately transmit MIDI events on the hardware from >CLOCK_MONOTONIC or something similar. IMHO, to "accurately transmit" means that you have to be able to schedule with an accuracy at a resolution of 1 MIDI byte (320usec).

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-03-05 Thread Martijn Sipkema
> Ok, I was of course thinking of timestamping MIDI events with the > "audio clock". No problem when running a sequencer as a part of the > audio network, but it does get messy to timestamp the MIDI events. I would prefer timestamping MIDI messages with some common clock. Then the audio system ca

Re: [linux-audio-dev] off topic, optical protocols

2002-03-05 Thread D. Stimits
"Richard C. Burnett" wrote: > > > That is one variation. But if the "sphere" is really the "disco ball" > > type surface...a sphere that has a large number of small flat surfaces > > that altogether almost are a sphere...then that isn't a problem. Like I > > said, there are variations on the geom

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Searching for midi-specification

2002-03-05 Thread Martijn Sipkema
> and as ever, anyone on LAD is free to write and ask me. i have the > official docs from the MMA, and i'm quite willing to answer > questions. Ok then :) I was wondering, is there anything in the MIDI specification about the difference between 'bulk dump' system exclusive and 'realtime' system

Re: [linux-audio-dev] off topic, optical protocols

2002-03-05 Thread Richard C. Burnett
> That is one variation. But if the "sphere" is really the "disco ball" > type surface...a sphere that has a large number of small flat surfaces > that altogether almost are a sphere...then that isn't a problem. Like I > said, there are variations on the geometry to do different things. The > base

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA and JACK

2002-03-05 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:57:09 +, David Riley wrote: > > steve has used it to write GUIs for two of his more complex LADSPA > > plugins. > > Is the source available? Yep: http://plugin.org.uk/releases/guis/ harmonic is complete, delayorama only outputs; there isn't a 1:1 mapping between

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA and JACK

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Davis
>I still think there is, but I'm not so sure it's actually something >that can be implemented with a reasonable amount of work. I believe >the problem with any new toolkit of the traditional kind is that it >would either be too restrictive, or too hard to learn. (Most) plugin >coders want to h

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Davis
>> >As the timestamps are in, I prefer to think of a "series of MIDI >> >events" as - guess what - a stream! Even if it's a variable data >> > rate stream of structured data, it's still a stream with a steady >> > heartbeat, in the form of the clock used for the timestamping. >> >> sure, but this

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Searching for midi-specification

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Davis
>> I'm seraching for a free of charge midi-specification. > >As Paul noted, the official spec only comes from the MMA, the >closest you can get on-line is to look over these websites: > >http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/miditech.htm >http://www.hinton.demon.co.uk/midi/promidi.html > >If you're

Re: [linux-audio-dev] off topic, optical protocols

2002-03-05 Thread D. Stimits
"Richard C. Burnett" wrote: > > What you are making in itself is an analog to digital > converter. Questions that pop off the top of my head: > > 1. different angles will have different lengths to the detectors, are you > thinking of making the detectors curve to the geometric shape? That is o

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Searching for midi-specification

2002-03-05 Thread John Lazzaro
> I'm seraching for a free of charge midi-specification. As Paul noted, the official spec only comes from the MMA, the closest you can get on-line is to look over these websites: http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/miditech.htm http://www.hinton.demon.co.uk/midi/promidi.html If you're only loo

Re: [linux-audio-dev] USB Souncards

2002-03-05 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (Has anyone started the ALSA usb project yet?) Nope. Noone in ALSA team has USB audio hardware, I think... -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas

2002-03-05 Thread David Olofson
On Monday 04 March 2002 00.52, Paul Davis wrote: > >As the timestamps are in, I prefer to think of a "series of MIDI > >events" as - guess what - a stream! Even if it's a variable data > > rate stream of structured data, it's still a stream with a steady > > heartbeat, in the form of the clock use

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA and JACK

2002-03-05 Thread David Olofson
On Monday 04 March 2002 15.02, Paul Davis wrote: [...] > if you search the archives, i think you will find that defining a > toolkit is pretty much a lost cause under Linux. i was all ready to > implement the VSTGUI for Linux (via GTK), but the more i reflected > upon it, no such solution will w

Re: [linux-audio-dev] off topic, optical protocols

2002-03-05 Thread Nick Bailey
Nope, I meant a Michaelson interferrometer. This has a single detector is used and it counts interference fringes as the distance between the diaphragm and laser changes. So you are actually measuring displacement to the accuracy of a wavelength of light, and using a counting process (which i

Re: [linux-audio-dev] USB Souncards

2002-03-05 Thread tapio . laxstrom
>OSS does support more than 2 channels. > >ALSA *can* support USB audio, but nobody has written the (user space) >code to do so at this time. > >And yes, there are Linux people use a *lot* more than 2 out/in >channels (how does 26 sound?) :) 26 sounds pretty good, I would like to enable even 6 :)

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA and JACK

2002-03-05 Thread David Riley
Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> There is a gui standard for LADSPA, but no hosts implement it yet. It's > >> partly a chicken and egg problem, as there are only 2 gui's. If anyone is working on adding it to a host and needs a client for testing they may find this useful: http://www.d

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Gnome Wave Cleaner (audio restoration) project,request for information

2002-03-05 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
>fix those problems so more people can start digitally restoring >their old precious vinyl :-). It is always a good idea to archive the original digital recording, and create cleaned version only for playing. Juhana

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Choosing a distribution

2002-03-05 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
>> Does anyone have a success/horror stories from using Debian? [...] Debian started installing from the web even I specified that I don't have network and want install from discs! I had to edit some file in /etc in order to get the debian installed. Unfortunately, then I had to do it manually.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [announce] ALSA Patch Bay 0.1

2002-03-05 Thread Maarten de Boer
On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 08:33:53 -0500 Dave Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maarten de Boer wrote: > > > ...my alsamixergui (which I have a version for > > 0.9.x., based on the latest CVS sources, I should make it available A.S.A.P) > > Please !!! You can download it from http://www.iua.upf

Re: [linux-audio-dev] off topic, optical protocols

2002-03-05 Thread Richard C. Burnett
What you are making in itself is an analog to digital converter. Questions that pop off the top of my head: 1. different angles will have different lengths to the detectors, are you thinking of making the detectors curve to the geometric shape? 2. Since the laser will not be a point but a spr

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Searching for midi-specification

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Davis
>Greetings! > I'm seraching for a free of charge midi-specification. My main-interest >is in gm, but I'm also looking for gs and maybe xg. I only found the >specifications at the mma. Can anyone help me? you can't get it without breaking copyright law. the complete MIDI specification is (C) MMA,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] off topic, optical protocols

2002-03-05 Thread Richard C. Burnett
> I'm not much of an engineering guy, but does switching to optical > necessarily mean switching to digital? Couldn't you use the frequency of > the light much like an electrical wire? I guess it depends on the > available hardware. You would have to modulate the light regardless, so it would b

Re: [linux-audio-dev] USB Souncards

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Davis
>My problems have been on mixer side; OSS does not support more >than 2 channel ouput and ALSA does not support USB. I am not sure >how ALSA supports multiple channels, but I believe there is Linux >people using more than 2 output/input channels (I mean hardware >outputs/inputs). OSS does support

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Jack and msr.h -> no ppc-hardware!

2002-03-05 Thread Paul Davis
>> why does jack, and so many other audio apps and libs use ? it >> doesen't exist in the ppc-tree of the linux kernel. so please don't use thes >e >> functions, or tell me what they mean exactly (and in the context). maybe i >> could look for ppc-variants... > >i had a similar problem with missin

[linux-audio-dev] Searching for midi-specification

2002-03-05 Thread Julien Patrick Claassen
Greetings! I'm seraching for a free of charge midi-specification. My main-interest is in gm, but I'm also looking for gs and maybe xg. I only found the specifications at the mma. Can anyone help me? Kindest regards Julien Julien Patrick Claassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [announce] ALSA Patch Bay 0.1

2002-03-05 Thread Dave Phillips
Maarten de Boer wrote: > ...my alsamixergui (which I have a version for > 0.9.x., based on the latest CVS sources, I should make it available A.S.A.P) Please !!! (Hi, Maarten !) Best regards, == Dave Phillips The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm

Re: [linux-audio-dev] off topic, optical protocols

2002-03-05 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:31:12 -0700, D. Stimits wrote: > I'm also interested in knowing how hard it is, in general, to create > optical output hardware for audio devices, specifically if I were to > make a small microphone pre-amp, and wanted it to create optical output > instead of analog, how

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Multiple S/PDIF out?

2002-03-05 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:00:33 -, James Mansion wrote: > Does anyone know of a Linux-supported card > (possibly linked pair) that would give me > 4 off stereo S/PDIF outputs, and one (pref > 2) off stereo S/PDIF inputs? No, but you can buy a hammerfall (well supported) and an ADAT<->SPDIF s

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Jack and msr.h -> no ppc-hardware!

2002-03-05 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi poeple > > why does jack, and so many other audio apps and libs use ? it > doesen't exist in the ppc-tree of the linux kernel. so please don't use these > functions, or tell me what they mean exactly (and in the context). maybe i > could look for ppc-variants...

Re: [linux-audio-dev] USB Souncards

2002-03-05 Thread tapio . laxstrom
Brad Bowman wrote Fri Jan 18 2002: >So, in short, what are the issues with USB sound cards >under Linux? In particular, does it effect latency and >realtime reliability? I purchset Emagic's EMI 2|6 low latency USB audio interface to may laptop (fancy box with 2 inputs, 6 outputs, 1 digital in a

[linux-audio-dev] Jack and msr.h -> no ppc-hardware!

2002-03-05 Thread lorenz . schori
hi poeple why does jack, and so many other audio apps and libs use ? it doesen't exist in the ppc-tree of the linux kernel. so please don't use these functions, or tell me what they mean exactly (and in the context). maybe i could look for ppc-variants... lorenz -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplat

Re: [linux-audio-dev] off topic, optical protocols

2002-03-05 Thread Ruben van Royen
Hi, I thought, thats interesting, lets do a search on google. So I search for digital microphone. And came up with: http://www.ptang.com/digmic/showpatimg For those who don't want to bother with the link: It's a patent for putting the A/D converter in the microphone housing! Guess Neumann will

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [announce] ALSA Patch Bay 0.1

2002-03-05 Thread Maarten de Boer
> I just completed version 0.1 of a very scrappy but functional gui midi > patch bay for alsa's seq api. It's essentially just a graphical version > of aconnect. It's available from: I wrote one already a long time ago (though for alsa 0.5.x, but it should be easy to port) ftp://www.iua.upf.es

Re: [linux-audio-dev] off topic, optical protocols

2002-03-05 Thread Nick Bailey
actuallyt you can get digital microponones: they measure the displacement of the diaphram by counting fringes on a laser interferometer, so there never is an analogue signal (except the physical movement of the membrane itself). Damned if I can find a reference to it now... I hope it wasn't a