Re: [linux-audio-dev] Laptop mic-input sound quality.

2006-12-04 Thread Phil Frost
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 07:03:09PM +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > >Good built-in audio + laptop = lesson in futility > > > >Ico > > > > It is technically possible to get good built-in audio. It is just that > laptop manufactures don't bother. > For example, The Cr

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-14 Thread Phil Frost
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:48:54AM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:59:48AM -0400, Steve wrote: > > One thing I just learned about recently is Pyrex. It doesn't generate > > stand-alone programs but is meant for creating libraries that can be > > called from Python -- it gene

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-14 Thread Phil Frost
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:47:36AM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > Hi there. > > Is it possible to write LADSPA plugins in anything but C/C++? I prefer > perl, ruby or python. > > alex Anything but C/C++, yes. See FAUST [1], a compiled language designed specificly for processing audio streams. Perl,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] "LADSPA2" naming redux

2006-05-03 Thread Phil Frost
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:58:54PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > There's bascially a choice between choosing a crap name, and treading on > someones toes slightly. It doesn't seem like a LADSPA POD plugin format > would steal any thunder from Truax. *cough* or, pick a name that is longer than 3 let

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Todays changes to "LADSPA2" strawman

2006-05-02 Thread Phil Frost
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:27:56PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:24:03PM +0200, Lars Luthman wrote: > > Do you mean that the plugin should dlopen the host? Wouldn't that > > require some way to pass the path to the host program to the plugin (in > > which case you might as

Re: [linux-audio-dev] "LADSPA 2" name

2006-04-26 Thread Phil Frost
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:13:23PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > Thats the kind of suggestion that makes non-free software developers think > were all pissing about. > > But I still dont like it that much ;) > > EEP - Extensible Environment for Plugins? > PEEP - Portable ... > MEEP - Multiplatform

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA 2

2006-04-25 Thread Phil Frost
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:11:10AM +0200, Leonard paniq Ritter wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 19:59 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: > > If you think the header should be all the documentation required, then > > you completely Don't Get It on a fundamental level. Read the example > > plugin - all of i

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA 2

2006-04-22 Thread Phil Frost
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:53:58AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > Almost two years ago at the LA conference a bunch of us agreed that > something need to be done to improve LADSPA, and on the approximate > direction it should take. > > [...] In my experience developing modular synths, it would be a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] one-sample length impulse - HOWTO?

2006-01-13 Thread Phil Frost
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 12:03:55AM +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > The aim is to generate audiofile with one/few-sample-length impulse inside > silence. Is there suitable software to do the job? > > Thanks in advance! > Andrew You could use your favorite programming language or a hex edi

Re: [linux-audio-dev] "declicking" algorithm?

2005-12-15 Thread Phil Frost
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:43:31PM +, Dan Mills wrote: > On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:26, Paul Coccoli wrote: > > Here's a poorly written description of my problem (the code in > > question is written from scratch in C++, BTW): > > > > I have a simple gain function that takes a number betwee

Re: [linux-audio-dev] "declicking" algorithm?

2005-12-15 Thread Phil Frost
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:26:34PM -0500, Paul Coccoli wrote: > Here's a poorly written description of my problem (the code in > question is written from scratch in C++, BTW): > > I have a simple gain function that takes a number between 0 and 1 and > multiplies each input sample by that number.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OT: Wikipedia, FM and John Chowning

2005-12-14 Thread Phil Frost
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:04:16PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 04:23 +0100, Esben Stien wrote: > > Jens M Andreasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Some of you guys might care to take a brief look > > > > It's so sad that wikipedia has let us down. We are now required t

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fixed vs. floating point

2005-10-14 Thread Phil Frost
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:00:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First of all, thank you all very much for you comments, the picture is much > clearer now. > > I just don't fully understand the floating-point precission part. If numbers > from binary 0.1 to 1.0 are represented using 24 bits (s

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fixed vs. floating point

2005-10-14 Thread Phil Frost
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:44:16AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am in the early planning stage of an audio processing application and I > have come to the point of making the choice between floating point or fixed > point (signed 2's complement) processing. > What do you think is better, and