[linux-audio-dev] RE: [linux-audio-user] Open letter to Steve Ballmer

2007-03-03 Thread Jan Depner
I normally wouldn't reply but this is way off. If there is prior art then the patent can be thrown out. This is what PubPat is doing and what was attempted with the Microsoft FAT patent (and succeeded in Germany). If Microsoft took out a patent on something that was implemented previously in

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Programming language

2007-02-22 Thread Jan Depner
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 23:20 +0100, Carlo Trimarchi wrote: Have you looked to see if there isn't already an application in development that could suit your needs? You might even be able to help in the development of something like Rosegarden or Muse or Ardour. Well, I need to do it for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Which widgets?

2006-02-25 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 16:56 +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 13:15 +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote: Heh, I'm only a novice programmer, and I'm already lazy :) Ah, the sign of a good programmer. :) KDE and Gnome both appear greedy to me. They both want me to use their

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: No Subject

2006-02-25 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 19:19 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:25 -0600, Jan Depner wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 01:23 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 06:14 +, peter wrote: i have a question for you though, would you take widespread copyright

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: No Subject

2006-02-22 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 06:14 +, peter wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 20:03 -0600, Jan Depner wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 17:23 -0800, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: But why do you consider it stealing? I just can't resist this. Please send me a copy of your latest song, novel

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: No Subject

2006-02-22 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 01:23 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 06:14 +, peter wrote: i have a question for you though, would you take widespread copyright infringement over pervasive DRM (and it's associated outcomes)? This is a false dichotomy. it's a moot

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: No Subject

2006-02-22 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 13:27 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: Why don't you want to distinct between copyright violation (which is a gray area, different from country to country) and stealing? First, because I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: No Subject

2006-02-22 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 13:21 +, Immanuel Litzroth wrote: Jan Depner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just can't resist this. Please send me a copy of your latest song, novel, whatever. I'll post it on the internet with my name as author then we'll come back to this discussion of why Lee

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: No Subject

2006-02-22 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 14:39 +, Immanuel Litzroth wrote: Arnold Krille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chiming in, altough i didn't want to... 2006/2/22, Immanuel Litzroth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jan Depner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just can't resist this. Please send me a copy

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

2006-02-21 Thread Jan Depner
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 16:16 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:01 -0800, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: But please, IMO, don't pay for any non-open source software. There are lots of excellent p2p tools you can use to get the software you need. Please don't support makers of

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

2006-02-21 Thread Jan Depner
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 22:28 +0100, Björn Lindström wrote: Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can we expect people to abide by the GPL if we don't respect their licensing terms? Stealing proprietary software is exactly as immoral as proprietary vendors ripping off GPL'ed code. While you

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

2006-02-21 Thread Jan Depner
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 23:41 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: fons adriaensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:01:10PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By this logic, locking my doors is immoral because it diminishes people's freedom

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

2006-02-21 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 00:43 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Jan Depner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 23:41 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: If I want Excel running on GNU/Linux, I can just shoot myself. I am not paying for such crippled software. If that means that I have

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: No Subject

2006-02-21 Thread Jan Depner
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 17:23 -0800, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:57 -0800, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: Lee Revell: On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:08 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Who is talking about not paying? This whole

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

2006-02-20 Thread Jan Depner
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:55 -0500, Pete Bessman wrote: This email is way, way longer than I intended it to be, and for that I apologize. Remember that I'm not looking to stir up any hostilities, I just want to hear where people stand on The Issues and get a sense of the community. I predict

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: C++ Keyboard Event Handling

2006-01-21 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 11:29 +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote: Check out Qt - it's just keypress event handling. Hi Jan, thanks for replying! Qt needs X to run, doesn't it? I would like to use something that will run on the console. Yeah, sorry, I missed that part. -- Jan 'Evil

Re: [linux-audio-dev] C++ Keyboard Event Handling

2006-01-20 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 12:31 +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote: Hi, new to this list and knowing absolutely nothing about C++ audio programming I would like to ask for a little bit of help. I want to create a console keyboard to MIDI application and for this I would like to read the physical

Re: [linux-audio-dev] applying RIAA curves in software

2005-10-25 Thread Jan Depner
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 08:38, Richard Smith wrote: I'm going to convert my fathers record collection over to CD. Doing some google research. According to http://www.tracertek.com/newway.htm they claim the new and best way to do LP to CD is to use a flat preamp, record at 24bit, 96kHz and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] applying RIAA curves in software

2005-10-25 Thread Jan Depner
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 12:06, Jan Depner wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 08:38, Richard Smith wrote: I'm going to convert my fathers record collection over to CD. Doing some google research. According to http://www.tracertek.com/newway.htm they claim the new and best way to do LP to CD

Re: [linux-audio-dev] TAP EQ problems

2005-08-03 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 14:47, Doug McLain wrote: There appears to be a serious problem with tap eq and ardour. Given a session with 8 mono tracks, and 6 of them running thru tap eq, I get near total gui freeze and/or jack disconnection when I stop rolling or when moving the playhead. This

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ot] [rant] gcc, you let me down one time too many

2005-06-07 Thread Jan Depner
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 19:20, Dave Robillard wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 15:45 -0500, Jan Depner wrote: On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 23:53, Dave Robillard wrote: On Sun, 2005-05-06 at 05:14 -0500, Jan Depner wrote: On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 08:08, fons adriaensen wrote: My aproach to C

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ot] [rant] gcc, you let me down one time too many

2005-06-06 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 20:15, David Cournapeau wrote: Good answer. I've often wondered why anyone would use vectors. Because you don't need to worry about their deletion ? Granted that for pure audio processing programming, it is not really useful, and a bit dangerous. I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ot] [rant] gcc, you let me down one time too many

2005-06-06 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 23:53, Dave Robillard wrote: On Sun, 2005-05-06 at 05:14 -0500, Jan Depner wrote: On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 08:08, fons adriaensen wrote: My aproach to C++ is very simple: I use it as 'C with classes'. No streams, no STL, no other nonsense. Gives me the best

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ot] [rant] gcc, you let me down one time too many

2005-06-06 Thread Jan Depner
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 10:38, Fred Gleason wrote: On Monday 06 June 2005 10:37, Mario Lang wrote: Heh, thats a Redmond argument I'd say :-). There is nothing wrong (ok, not that much) with accidentally wasting CPU time, but if you are aware of where are you wasting it, I dont buy the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ot] [rant] gcc, you let me down one time too many

2005-06-05 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 08:08, fons adriaensen wrote: My aproach to C++ is very simple: I use it as 'C with classes'. No streams, no STL, no other nonsense. Gives me the best of both worlds - clean objects and low level. Good answer. I've often wondered why anyone would use vectors. I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Other real-time options

2005-04-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 21:46, Shayne O'Connor wrote: Jean-Marc Valin wrote: If someone sets up this forum, and more than twice of us sign up, that should show those arrogant lklm-people that there are really _a lot_ of us, and that we are strong, and very angry. Hah! First, please

Re: [linux-audio-dev] HELP:porting linux audio driver to RTLinux(rtlinux core driver)

2005-04-08 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:37, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 06:24 -0700, nobin matthew wrote: I am porting pxa audio driver to rtlinux (rtlinux pro). I am mainly using pxa-ac97.c pxa-audio.c(eliminated sound_core.c). I will try to register to two devices /dev/dsp and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] HELP:porting linux audio driver to RTLinux(rtlinux core driver)

2005-04-08 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:30, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:24 -0500, Jan Depner wrote: Personally I think you're wasting your time. Ingo's RT preempt patches let you do hard realtime with Linux using the existing driver base. I'm not sure why he's trying to do

Re: [linux-audio-dev] HELP:porting linux audio driver to RTLinux(rtlinux core driver)

2005-04-08 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:50, Jack O'Quin wrote: Jan Depner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:37, Lee Revell wrote: Personally I think you're wasting your time. Ingo's RT preempt patches let you do hard realtime with Linux using the existing driver base. I'm

Re: [linux-audio-dev] HELP:porting linux audio driver to RTLinux(rtlinux core driver)

2005-04-08 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:51, Paul Davis wrote: I'm not sure why he's trying to do this because for audio the latest patched kernels appear to be more than adequate. That said, I don't think you can get a guaranteed 15 microsecond interrupt response with anyone's patches to the standard

Re: [linux-audio-dev] HELP:porting linux audio driver to RTLinux(rtlinux core driver)

2005-04-08 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:47, Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:39 -0500, Jan Depner wrote: Please, don't think I was being disparaging. I am absolutely thrilled with the kernel work that has been going on. This thing rocks! The last I heard (from contractors working for us

Re: [linux-audio-dev] HELP:porting linux audio driver to RTLinux(rtlinux core driver)

2005-04-08 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:25, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:04:29AM -0500, Jan Depner wrote: IIRC part of it was servicing IRIG-B interrupts. The easiest way to input IRIG-B is as an audio signal via a soundcard, and use a software decoder. That was one my first jobs

Re: [linux-audio-dev] GPL concerns

2005-04-06 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 14:56, Shane wrote: Jan, Thank you for your comments. I should clarify from the perspective of an independent software developer with no previous relationship to the company issuing the NDA that may or may not be valid or legal... First of all, the (hypothetical)

Re: [linux-audio-dev] GPL concerns

2005-04-06 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 18:18, Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 14:56 -0500, Shane wrote: Jan, Thank you for your comments. I should clarify from the perspective of an independent software developer with no previous relationship to the company issuing the NDA that may or may not

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: OSC-Question

2005-03-29 Thread Jan Depner
-03-29 at 10:38, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: From: Jan Depner [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, imho one of the main advantages is Qt's Signal/Slot mechanism sigc++ How to implement signal/slot mechanism in simplest terms with C? In my opinion, sometimes it is unnecessary to link to a massive code

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSC-Question

2005-03-20 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 17:24, Paul Davis wrote: No, imho one of the main advantages is Qt's Signal/Slot mechanism and my=20 current implementation has come so far that I can send and receive OSC=20 messages with one argument (of type QVariant) via signals and slots. i don't want to get into a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] IUPUI Student Radio Station should be based on Linux

2005-03-10 Thread Jan Depner
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 21:03, ben racher wrote: Hello, I'm starting a student radio station at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana and I want our entire audio infrastructure to be based on Linux. I've got a rough sense of all the apps we need and what apps to setup on which computers, but I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tuning

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 06:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jan, 2005 at 10:36AM -0600, Jan Depner spake thus: On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 08:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan, 2005 at 05:09PM -0600, Jan Depner spake thus: Next up... a plugin that plays your instrument

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tuning

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 11:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you should try cheesetracker. I find trackers to be a very intuitive interface, but maybe that's because I come from a computer science background. Me too. It's just that I am not familiar with what those things do. I'll

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tuning

2005-01-30 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 14:05, Lee Revell wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 10:39 -0600, Jan Depner wrote: Don't worry about speed with an instrument - it's way overrated. Less is definitely more in that department. Anyone who tells you this has obviously never heard Yngwie Malmsteen's

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tuning

2005-01-29 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 17:14, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:11:12PM -0600, Jan Depner wrote: If you're actually going to do this (argh) I'm not. It's an interesting problem, but I'd agree that if you can't sing in tune, then just don't. take a look at Tom's TAP

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tuning

2005-01-29 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 08:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan, 2005 at 05:09PM -0600, Jan Depner spake thus: Next up... a plugin that plays your instrument for you. Why deal with the tedious hassle of having to tune your instrument or actually learn how to play it? Can't sing

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Tuning

2005-01-29 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 06:44, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 11:03:52AM +0100, Tom Szilagyi wrote: void fractal(LADSPA_Data * v, int N, float H) { ... } That's a classic one. For large N, the output will approach some form of filtered Gaussian noise. What makes this

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Tuning

2005-01-29 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 10:48, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:43:37AM -0600, Jan Depner wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 06:44, Fons Adriaensen wrote: That's a classic one. For large N, the output will approach some form of filtered Gaussian noise. What makes this fractal

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards...

2005-01-28 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 02:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan, 2005 at 04:00PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki spake thus: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:18:02PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi peeps. Just looking for some quick advice about a new soundcard. I'm looking at getting

Re: [linux-audio-dev] cool plugin from Waves

2005-01-28 Thread Jan Depner
Now, if you could just do the same with outboard reverbs... ;-) Jan On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 03:52, Steve Harris wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:06:29 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM05/Content/Waves/PR/Q-Clone.html Hmmm... I suspect thats rather easy to do,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tuning

2005-01-28 Thread Jan Depner
Next up... a plugin that plays your instrument for you. Why deal with the tedious hassle of having to tune your instrument or actually learn how to play it? Can't sing... not a problem! I can see Micro$oft coming out with something like that ;-) Sorry, but this goes against the grain

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tuning

2005-01-28 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 09:52, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 02:57:31PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing I haven't been able to replace so far is the Oberheim OB-Tune plug-in. This was an amazingly useful plug-in that would take an audio input and make sure it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards...

2005-01-27 Thread Jan Depner
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 15:00, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: The audiophile, like all ice1712 cards, is very well supported by alsa. The delta series (44, 66, 1010, 1010lt) all use this same chipset and driver, as do several good cards by some other manufacturers. envy24control is a great mixer

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Firewire support in Linux

2005-01-26 Thread Jan Depner
I've forwarded the message to them and I'll let you know what I get back. Jan On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 17:28, Jody McIntyre wrote: Can you ask your contact if they can supply any information on the PreSonus FIRESTATION? It uses Yamaha's mLAN protocol. I emailed various addresses at Yamaha and

[linux-audio-dev] Firewire support in Linux

2005-01-25 Thread Jan Depner
I was interested in the thread about firewire audio device support in Linux a while back. Just the other day I noticed that Presonus is just up the road from where I live so I thought I'd drop them a line and ask about their two firewire interfaces and if they would consider releasing specs

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux friendly, portable digital recording devices?

2005-01-03 Thread Jan Depner
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 11:50, David Olofson wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 18.53, Jan Depner wrote: [...] When recording on batteries they will last longer using mp3 recording than WAV recording. Weird. :-) Disk/flash I/O uses more power than mp3 encoding...? Only with the disk

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux friendly, portable digital recording devices?

2005-01-02 Thread Jan Depner
I think the Neuros II (http://www.neurosaudio.com/) is closer to what you need. It includes a built in microphone as well as a mic in. Records in mp3 or WAV (up o 48KHz). USB 2.0 interface. Mine works very well with Linux. You can get one with 256MB of memory for $140 or one with a 20GB hard

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux friendly, portable digital recording devices?

2004-12-27 Thread Jan Depner
Neuros is very nice but a bit more expensive depending on how much storage you need. It will record in mp3 or wav (up to 15/48KHz). Jan On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 16:19, Ian Howard wrote: Hey all, We are looking for some portable digital recording devices with the following criteria: - very

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

2004-12-04 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 19:58, Dave Robillard wrote: Your initial reply to me, which was not about the issue at hand whatsoever - you called me obnoxious and insulting. That counts as a personal attack in my books, and immediately forced the discussion in a useless direction. Point is you

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

2004-12-03 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 10:57, Dave Robillard wrote: All this mentioning of belief and church to degrade open source people is no better than me calling you and RME Nazis. Seems to be a recurring theme that the person who presents the open source position makes no personal attacks whatsoever,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

2004-12-01 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:37, Dave Robillard wrote: On Tue, 2004-30-11 at 17:43 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: No one said they were good. I just said it was better than no support at all, and whatever RME decides to do, they designed the hardware, it's THEIR CHOICE. No, it's not better than

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

2004-12-01 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 17:13, Dave Robillard wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-12 at 03:38 +0100, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 00:09, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:32:30PM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote: I'd rather not have people with this ignorant 'closed drivers

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

2004-12-01 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 17:07, Dave Robillard wrote: On Tue, 2004-30-11 at 17:51 -0600, Jan Depner wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:32, Dave Robillard wrote: Ditto. A closed driver is not fine at all. It's worse than no driver at all, since it sets a /very/ dangerous precedent. (If you

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

2004-12-01 Thread Jan Depner
That's the word of the day. Tomorrow we'll try obsequious ;-) Jan On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:18, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:12:40PM -0600, Jan Depner wrote: I also asked you to not be so obstreperous in your posts. ^ I really love

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

2004-12-01 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 20:15, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:29, Jan Depner wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:37, Dave Robillard wrote: On Tue, 2004-30-11 at 17:43 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: No one said they were good. I just said it was better than no support at all

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

2004-12-01 Thread Jan Depner
That was a joke Marek. That's why it had the little smiley thingy on the end ;-) As opposed to Dave's talking about people's ignorant ideas. Jan On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 20:27, Marek Peteraj wrote: I also asked you to not be so obstreperous in your posts. You'll get more respect and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

2004-12-01 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 20:37, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 03:27, Marek Peteraj wrote: I also asked you to not be so obstreperous in your posts. You'll get more respect and attention by being polite. Jan, i think Daves posts were pretty ok in that respect and pretty

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Behringer

2004-12-01 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 19:48, Paul Davis wrote: The point is not that someone might reverse engineer and do a worse/better oss driver. The point is that nvidia, ati, xgi, matrox *should* do open source drivers. The point is that nobody has persuaded them of this, and in the matrox case, they

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tastes like chicken!

2004-11-28 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 06:52, Dave Phillips wrote: Hey John: I'll chime in with some kudos for the tune, but I agree with your own assessment re: the vocal, it does need to come forward. No point in singing words if they can't be heard or understood, yes ? Vocals are often a problem

Re: Behringer [was Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME is no more]

2004-11-28 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 10:15, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 14:50, Tim Goetze wrote: [Marek Peteraj] RME has provided Pro grade audio hardware when Linux Audio needed it in order to become a legitimate alternative to proprietary solutions. Not really. It was Paul,

Re: Behringer [was Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME is no more]

2004-11-27 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 15:36, Lee Revell wrote: On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 15:43 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: Did this happen? Maybe not to them but look at Mackie and Behringer. Just to save people some googling here is a thread that documents the long and colorful history of pro audio

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tastes like chicken!

2004-11-27 Thread Jan Depner
I like the tune. I'd certainly like to hear the finished product. If I were you I wouldn't add drums, just percussion. Congas, bongos, guiro, cabasa, claves, vibraslap... Jan On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 13:36, John Check wrote: I haven't posted anything in a while, but I'm sure some of you

Re: [linux-audio-dev] RME is no more

2004-11-24 Thread Jan Depner
certainly share my money with other companies. Any companies listening out there? Regards Jan Depner On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 19:14, Marek Peteraj wrote: Hi all, sorry for crossposting, just wanted to let everybody know: The official statement is that there will be no support for ALSA (Linux

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Firewire Audio Card Support

2004-11-18 Thread Jan Depner
That is a damn good rant! I agree completely. Unfortunately I only do software :-/ Jan On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:16, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:09 +0100, Giuliano Pochini wrote: No, it's not hard because there are a lot of skilled people around, but the card would be

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [ardour-users] more music with Ardour

2004-11-16 Thread Jan Depner
That's great Dave! It's nice to hear some really clean playing. Jan On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 06:37, Dave Phillips wrote: Greetings: I've added another recording to my music made with Ardour page, a guitar duet this time. It's a performance of an old Jimmy Dorsey tune called Maria Elena,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux and Standards

2004-10-30 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 02:23, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: LINUX AS A STANDARD I feel that considering linux as a standard is on one hand a kind of a paradox as it is built on the premise that individual truly can tweak it to heart's content and therefore it is relatively unlikely that any two

Re: [linux-audio-dev] anyone interested to develop a new apps ?

2004-10-24 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 06:37, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Jan Depner hat gesagt: // Jan Depner wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 18:13, Frank Barknecht wrote: It's similar to the fact, that everyone should learn at least one scripting language like Python, Bash or Perl. It's good

Re: [linux-audio-dev] anyone interested to develop a new apps ?

2004-10-24 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 08:43, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Jan Depner hat gesagt: // Jan Depner wrote: Geez Frank, you went and got serious on me ;-) I just took it as a cheap excuse to do some more propaganda, sorry. ;) There's nothing wrong with a little good propaganda

Re: [linux-audio-dev] anyone interested to develop a new apps ?

2004-10-23 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 18:13, Frank Barknecht wrote: It's similar to the fact, that everyone should learn at least one scripting language like Python, Bash or Perl. It's good for the mind and it enables you to create little custom applications instead of waiting for the C developers to write

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Roland and GPL

2004-09-23 Thread Jan Depner
That's pretty cool. I had no idea they were supporting anything GPL. Jan On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 11:45, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: Hello. When this happened?? What a great move. http://www.roland.com/support/gpl/ Regards, Juhana

Re: [linux-audio-dev] a new patent to worry about

2004-08-24 Thread Jan Depner
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:09, Jennifer Dillon wrote: I have been experimenting with psychoacoustic mehods and enhancement in both hardware and software for the last 20 years and there already is quite a lot of information in the Public Domain. Do the new patent laws allow somebody to patent

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Read this after your first cup of coffee

2004-08-17 Thread Jan Depner
Damn. That was all perfectly lucid. I must be missing something ;-) Seriously though, it all makes sense to me. (Sorry for top-posting but I'm lazy). Jan On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 06:17, John Check wrote: Good Morning, Here's the position paper I drafted up. As usual I'll request that

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [announce] [patch] Voluntary Kernel Preemption Patch

2004-07-12 Thread Jan Depner
Is this problem strictly with reiserfs in 2.6 or is it also a problem with 2.4. I actually experienced fewer xruns with reiserfs vs ext3 on 2.4 (preempt/ll) but I have no hard numbers to back that up. Jan On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 19:17, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 19:31, Andrew Morton

Re: [linux-audio-dev] swh plugins and fixing undenormalize

2004-06-27 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 07:43, Tim Goetze wrote: [Tim Blechmann] On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:38:24 -0500 Jan Depner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 13:49, Tim Blechmann wrote: I have a denormal fix without a branch but you probably don't want to see it ;-) It's pretty

Re: [linux-audio-dev] swh plugins and fixing undenormalize

2004-06-27 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 08:30, Tim Goetze wrote: [Simon Jenkins] Tim Goetze wrote: 8-bit exponent and no assumption about its value made, 8 binary 'shift', 7 'or' and 1 'and' statement if i'm not badly mistaken. and if i'm not, a branch will probably hurt less. Three shifts, three copys,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design + some OT stuff

2004-06-27 Thread Jan Depner
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 18:22, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Going back to our original point: if a user is too lazy to read a manual, I can't be bothered with his problem. And if someone proclaims that aversion to reading documentation is 'normal', I will disagree, and now you all know why.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 02:36, Fons Adriaensen wrote: I made the observation that educated people usually do not mind having to learn something. So if there is a widespread aversion to having to learn and read a manual, that seems to indicate that education levels have gone down. I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] TAP-plugins 0.6.0 +more

2004-06-23 Thread Jan Depner
vocals, acoustic/electric guitars, bass and just about any other instrument. The effect is created by applying small changes to the pitch and timing of the incoming signal. The changes are created by a one-dimensional random fractal line producing pink noise. Special thanks to Jan Depner

Re: [linux-audio-dev] linux use (was [OT] marketing hype)

2004-06-12 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 16:20, Dave Robillard wrote: I all seriousness though, maybe it would be a good idea to create a centralized list of apps that need to be written? Kind of a global linux audio TODO list. We could even put enhancements to existing software there as well (ie add LASH

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-11 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 03:42, Tim Orford wrote: i dont mean to be aggressive, i'm just really intrigued to know how people get any music done. There is never any talk on this list or LAU about real software usage or workflows etc. Most of that talk is on ardour-dev. Ask Ron Parker

Re: [linux-audio-dev] linux use (was [OT] marketing hype)

2004-06-11 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 06:21, Tim Orford wrote: The other thing that makes linux more productive for me is the windowmanager I am using: ion, a tabbed/tiled window manager which I would like to promote here as one of the most productivity enhancing piece of software I know. i am

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-11 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:39, Steve Harris wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 07:15:24AM -0500, Jan Depner wrote: Also, being one of those bedroom hackers, I just want to point out that I've been a professional programmer for 26 years. I've done mostly scientific graphical editing and data

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-11 Thread Jan Depner
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 09:03, Tim Orford wrote: yeh you guys are lucky, not only do you get to work with real instruments but your software requirements are much more easily satisfied:-) Yeah, it is much easier than dealing with MIDI and synths. I get a headache just thinking about

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?

2004-06-10 Thread Jan Depner
I like this idea, however, in JAMin, we were trying to save real estate. The status bar is used for JACK status. It would be very easy to implement this since I've already built focus change detection in for context sensitive help (shift-F1 over any widget). I don't think I have enough room to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Jan Depner
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 17:00, Steve Harris wrote: Yup, but I dont think we got consensus on the metadata format, which is kinda fundamnetal. For the record, I (still) think we should use a restricted subset of RDF/N3. As long as you never, ever have to look at it. I could actually

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 03:10, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On tis, 2004-06-08 at 20:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colors must always be configurable. The percentage of color blind people is much higher than most people think. I think the percentage of colorblind males are about 10%

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] affordance? (was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?)

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 04:37, Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:11:54 -0500, Jan Depner wrote: Sorry for my ignorance -- but is there someone who can present me the german term for affordance? The web-dicts I searched, don't know this word -- and the wikipedia entry doesn't

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 04:49, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:06:00AM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:15, Fons Adriaensen wrote: - When I saw the collection of VST plugins that Paul Davis used to show his VST hosting in Karlsruhe, I asked myself

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
Don't feel bad. I got mine right and then thought it was wrong :) Go figure. Jan On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 06:52, Paul Davis wrote: Ardour: default value ctrl-button2 click context menu = button3 click chris - heh, i am as bad as you! i got ardour's wrong :) default value

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 07:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, you are correct. In JAMin it's center click. Jeez, I wrote it, I should know these things :-\ Jan But obviously I don't...Doh! It's right click to go to default in all sliders that have a default. The compressors, crossovers,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 06:17, Dave Griffiths wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 21:11, Marek Peteraj wrote: What linux audio offers is technology. No comfort at all. Right now it's all just academic software. This, and the lack of marketing departments is exactly why I am here. I don't want

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:26, Marek Peteraj wrote: But you guys *are* following proprietary software in general. Ardour is a DAW just like cubase is, while SSM resembles reaktor in its philosophy. LADSPAs are plugins like VSTs are, etc etc etc. There's nothing which is perfectly original.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 19:27, Marek Peteraj wrote: If you want to organize something go ahead and organize it, but please don't tell me that I have to conform to some consumer driven vision of the great commercial future of Linux Audio. Sorry to criticize still, but you're participating

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 18:08, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: Most probably you will find out (when/if other developers care to speak out) that this view is shared by many, if not all, developers, and not just in the audio world. Great projects in the open source community

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