Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Pitchshift/Timestretch project..

2004-04-05 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:15:05PM +, J_Zar wrote: Mmmm... Could be a very improvement for the sound streching. I've some problem with SoundTouch (compiling and latency issues)... So I'm interested... but from what I can see from the project page, there is a donate form but no CVS or code

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Pitchshift/Timestretch project..

2004-04-05 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:07:08AM +0200, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: Es geschah am Montag, 5. April 2004 23:33 als Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: Well me. I've been working on this since the start of the year, but been thinking about the problem for over 10 years. Which brings me to the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Major problem with RME HDSP/Multiface and a 64-bit AMD laptop

2004-03-20 Thread Vincent Touquet
I see this machine has an ENE cardbus controller, for which problems have been reported in the RME support newsgroup @ nntp://news.x-networks.de/rme-audio I do not know the full details of the problem, and I don't know if your particular setup is affected, but there were at least some cases

[linux-audio-dev] mail loop

2004-02-15 Thread Vincent Touquet
Anyone else experiencing a mail loop with the latest cross posted messages to LAD and LAU by Steve and Chris ? regards, v

[linux-audio-dev] mail loop - headers

2004-02-15 Thread Vincent Touquet

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-13 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:14:53PM +, Steve Harris wrote: Hear hear. I think that GL accelration is a (potentially) important optimisation for audio apps - it saves a lot of cache and memory bandwidth that can be better used number-crunching audio. Right. Paul is right that its a kludge, but

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-13 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:24:05PM +, Steve Harris wrote: Matrox have just release a card designed for audio that has no fans (due to downclocked 3d processor) and lots of acceleration on all heads. Which one ? :) Right, well in the meantime im doing it as optional - eg. I have an alpha

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
Do you use the Radeon binary driver ? v On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 06:26:20PM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote: Through a painful process I'd rather not go into, I discovered that Jack will not run in realtime mode with my Radeon's 3d drivers loaded.. I get the error cannot lock down memory for RT

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:19:55PM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote: Now that ATI has gone the way of Nvidia I don't know who to pledge allegiance to. :) Is Matrox still friendly? I would say that there is still hope as far as ATI is concerned. They are delivering specs to the Linuxbios people, so

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:32:35PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: the implementation of DRI by certain video interface drivers means that we end up trying to lock the video memory as well, and this tends to fail for various reasons. Hm, that sounds bad. Does this problem also happen with the open

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 06:58:49PM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote: I remember seeing that page a little while back, I'll definately look into it.. looks pretty crazy! It definitely looks great. I want to test it too. (If it's based on portaudio can I still connect it to my jack graph somehow?

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:32:35PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: its a basic problem with real time software, the POSIX API etc. JACK tries to lock *all* the process memory. This is to ensure that nothing gets swapped out, right ? Else it is very hard to ensure real time performance ? (sorry for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:45:49PM +0100, Robert Jonsson wrote: I'm running quite happily with DRI enabled on my ATI card now, the problem was definitely that it was trying to lock too much memory. Ok. I assume that you have a Firegl T2 with 128Mb Ram (using the ATI 3.7.0 drivers) ? Since

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:31:10AM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: Machine is an 800 MHz AMD w. 512 MB RAM, system is Planet CCRMA RH 9. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I haven't had this kind of noise problem before now, I'd certainly like to get rid of it, and I'm willing

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:57:17PM -0500, Jesse Chappell wrote: BTW, i just ran JACK realtime on a T41p with the firegl T2 128MB, using the ati 3.7.0 drivers on a 2.4.22 PE/LL kernel with no problems. Alsa 0.9.8 using the builtin audio (snd-intel8x0). the machine itself has 512MB of RAM. Great !

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Software with source code?

2004-02-03 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:32:36PM +, Steve Harris wrote: Er, yes. I think this can be left up to the submitters discression. eg. http://freshmeat.net/projects/sweep/ looking at that I guess you would want required-package and recommended-package being sub-properties of depends-on I know the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-12-01 Thread vincent . touquet
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:12:24AM +, Steve Harris wrote: I guess the more of us who buy them the quicker the endianness problems will be fixed, ppc-linux-audio-user? :) :) I was thinking along the same lines ;) v

Re: [linux-audio-dev] modular synth GUI status?

2003-11-19 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:03:06PM +0200, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: Hello. Who of us are working on a modular synth GUI where user grabdrag modules and connects them with cables? I'm myself interested in the editor GUI development --- there already are many modular audio engines, but not

[linux-audio-dev] Linux on TI DSP boards

2003-11-07 Thread Vincent Touquet
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3468265897.html Looks cool. A little proprietary, but it seems to have an SDK. vini

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux VERSUS OSS ???

2003-10-14 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:44:32AM -0700, Love Bucket wrote: You should not be writing apps with OSS. If you want portability use PortAudio. LOL! PortAudio uses... OSS! Read http://www.portaudio.com/docs/proposals/status.html Find alsa, oss and jack. Note that way more functionality is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Linux VERSUS OSS ???

2003-10-14 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:41:14AM -0700, Love Bucket wrote: Where is the equivalent for ALSA? Until it exists, we will continue using OSS! http://www.alsa-project.org/documentation.php3 Or do you really want *.pdf ? There are tools for that. v

Re: [linux-audio-dev] lowlatency test at linuxdevices

2003-09-19 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:23:47AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: Open source is a bit slower to move, but at least it sticks around! So true. Anyway, at least there will be a patch; the most recent one for 2.4.20 just came out. You mean: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ ? I just

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6

2003-07-24 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 06:03:33AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: I haven't used kernel 2.5/2.6 for any audio stuff yet. I'm at the Linux Symposium this week - do we have any requests or gripes with 2.6 that I can relay to the core kernel guys? Audio is a workload they don't really test. I'm not an

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Digital Room Correction (DRC) 2.2.0

2003-06-26 Thread Vincent Touquet
Dual licensing might be an option too ? I'm not really an expert on it though :) Anyone know the ins and outs of dual licensing ? v

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linux from proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]

2003-06-22 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:22:37PM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote: However this brings up one interesting point/problem. Due to GPL nature of Linux software, many of our efforts will seamlessly bleed into OS X world since there are no restrictions as to which platform this software is run on, and Apple

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New powermacs?

2003-06-22 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:53:38PM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote: (cut) -- a unified and powerful underlying framework. Yet, that is not what we're working on right now... I noted a lot of Mac OS X projects making use of libsndfile already. The common Unix base is a huge step forward. Now there are 2

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New form of GPL licence that protects Linuxfrom proprietary world [was: New powermacs?]t

2003-06-22 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:19:21PM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote: My point exactly :-). Just to add a bit onto this issue is that we could still support non-opensource systems, but they would need to purchase the software (see my other e-mail with the Trolltech as an example). Dual licensing is a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] Question about some definition..

2003-06-14 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:12:37AM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: Hi! i'm doing some studying on dsp, and one thing I could never properly understand is the term of excitation signal I seem to find it associated to environment or natural sources, but I cant really find a definition. Could someone

Re: [linux-audio-dev] GPL and VST.

2003-06-07 Thread Vincent Touquet
What I do know about this, is that it is illegal from the VST SDK license point of view to redistribute their headers with some GPL sources, so the end user has to download the SDK with the headers included, to be able to compile your plugin with VST support, if you license it GPL. I don't think

[linux-audio-dev] Hartman Neuron

2003-06-03 Thread Vincent Touquet
http://www.sequencer.de/neuron/neuronal.html This synth has a mainboard running Linux inside :) Seems like not only Stanton (Final Scratch) is relying on Linux in the pro audio world these days .. regards, Vincent

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Hartman Neuron

2003-06-03 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:19:02AM +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote: (cut) Linux has all the right ingredients for a good general-purpose audio i/o processing platform. The API's are fresh and well thought out, and expanding rapidly to accomodate the needs of performance app writers. Knowing that you

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Hartman Neuron

2003-06-03 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:30:52AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: Agreed. There are a number of ways to solve this, but sadly they all require a significant ammount of effort, and there are always some importnat things to be done... A laso kinda like the UI melange effect you get on VST systems,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LJ article response

2003-04-04 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:53:05AM -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: Greetings: Just a note to mention that the Karlsruhe report has had 3,871 reads so far, more than any other article listed except for the Ultimate Linux Box on-line project. Seems like maybe people are really interested in what you

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Lock Free Ringbuffer in C ?

2003-04-03 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:36:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i remember i have read a statement about a lock free ringbuffer implemented in C somewhere. Can anybody remeber it ? I think it is in the Ardour sources ? I will try to hunt down the relevant post. regards, v

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Advertising Linux Audio

2003-03-28 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:36:13PM +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote: (cut) Apart from that IMO the amount of money spent is useful to know from a business POV. If 6 months of clicking can generate $450 for Google then we must be able to channel that more effectively into LAD projects. I guess you

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: why is ...

2003-02-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
and the rest ... I get this. Its pathetic. Not only that ... I have no idea how much longer I can keep working on Ardour right now because working on it has come close to exhausting my financial resources. Paul, could you tell me how I can support you financially ? Do you work through Paypal ?

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: why is no-one responding are you all just a bunch of *^%^%^ wits???

2003-02-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:33:24PM -0500, Ivica Bukvic wrote: Do I/we have at least your permission (if we do manage to compile out of CVS) to redistribute my/our compiled version? I think this is covered by section 6 in the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html 6. Each time you

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: why is no-one responding are you all just a bunch of *^%^%^ wits???

2003-02-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:49:08AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: (cut) jazz++ has been around for a long time, and is available as a binary. why isn't it widely loved and used? because it really isn't very good. i know that i tried to use it many times, and found it, well, frankly i found it completely

Re: [linux-audio-dev] why is no-one responding are you all just a bunch of *^%^%^ wits???

2003-02-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
I'm not a real coder either (so one might argue I shouldn't be on linux-audio-dev, but I'm just interested in the discussions), so I think I understand the root cause of your grief. I think if (if) the Ardour developers are _expecting_ quality feedback from normal users (not just programmers) at

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAD Meeting at ZKM Karlsruhe 14-16 March 2003

2003-01-28 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:42:35PM +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote: Anyone from Belgium planning to go? I'd like to attend this, maybe we could 'join forces'? (Vincent?) Yep, I was planning to :) I haven't figured out how to survive the weekend in terms of sleep and food, but the motivation is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Route Stantons Final Scratch to internal sound cards?

2003-01-26 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:02:59PM +0100, Modnogg wrote: (cut) Do you think it's possible to route the USB sound cards to my internal sound cards? I could use the sound driver library from linux. But my problem is how to link the software to other soundcards? (cut) Here you can find out how to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Route Stantons Final Scratch to internal sound cards?

2003-01-26 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:04:40AM +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote: (cut) What I think could be possible is using (writing a driver for) the scratchamp with OSS or ALSA drivers, as they seem to be USB soundcards by creative. Those will have standard chipsets. But that wasn't the question I guess...

Re: [linux-audio-dev] MMA membership (rambling reply)

2003-01-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:19:28PM +0100, Vincent Touquet wrote: Interesting reply :) I was going to write a boatload of stuff, but I can put it more concisely (I think I have this from the latest Linux Journal or some other magazine or online article). concisely: only the next paragraph should

Re: [linux-audio-dev] RE: MMA memebership [was XAP: Some thoughts on control ramping]

2003-01-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:30:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO the *worst* possible scenario is that the commercial companies (many of whom are a one man show) decide that they want to join the MMA, while a sizeable group of others decide to persue a parallel effort. That gives us 2

[linux-audio-dev] OpenSynth Eko supports Linux ?

2003-01-17 Thread Vincent Touquet
Check this out: - http://www.opnlabs.com/ - http://www.opnlabs.com/ekochart.php [comes with XP or LINUX !] Does anyone know more about this synth ? It really strikes me that you can choose between XP or Linux, its just great :) regards v

Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP/NAMM reminder

2003-01-15 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:01:44PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: (cut) also, for folks here who are not on ardour-dev, please critique this: http://www.op.net/~pbd/brochure.pdf Read it and the only thing I could come up with, was an extra hyphen, which is undecided in English anyway :) [twenty

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Networking Linux audio folks (was Unified Audio Plugin Architecture (Meeting))

2003-01-09 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:46:19PM -0800, Josh Green wrote: (cut) I remember something similar being discussed on LAD a while back (but I think it was about networking of Linux Audio prefessionals for contracts and jobs, correct me if I'm wrong), perhaps this idea could be added to that same

Re: [linux-audio-dev] (fwd) Unified Audio Plugin Architecture

2003-01-09 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 05:12:47PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: [cut] The way I read Paul's note they are not restricted, therefore they are public. Wouldn't want to drive that far and find out differently. [cut] Not sure whether this fits in here, but I thought it might be interesting. I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Final Scratch, custom kernel?

2002-10-07 Thread Vincent Touquet
Wow, please do :) I'm immensely interested. best regards vincent On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:34:59PM +0200, CK wrote: I read: How well does it work? Does it truly work just like a standard turntable setup would, or does it have an artificial feel or sound to it? dunno about final scratch but

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Evo (was: 'nix Rt sampler)

2002-09-07 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 02:01:24PM +0200, Peter Hanappe wrote: We're thinking of adding a .wav loader to iiwusynth. In that case you won't need to convert it to a soundfont before hand. I can't give you a date when this feature will be available, though. Nice :) I'll be looking forward to it.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Evo (was: 'nix Rt sampler)

2002-09-05 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:15:57AM -0700, Brian Redfern wrote: IIwusynth is really nice and performs well, its a soundfont software sampler, and swamii is a soundfont editor that uses it for its engine. I get good realtime playback on my laptop and have access to tons of soundfonts on cdrom. Is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Evo (was: 'nix Rt sampler)

2002-09-05 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:39:07AM -0700, Brian Redfern wrote: Soundfonts are based on normal samples, they just give you control over envelope paramters so you can use midi to control extra parameters, like use velocity to alter cut off. I'm working on my own personal library right now with

[linux-audio-dev] managing installations from source [CVS]

2002-09-02 Thread Vincent Touquet
Hi, I ask this question here because I know a lot of you manage to install lots of applications from a fresh cvs snaphot without troubles (I think ;). How do you manage these from-source installs ? Are there people who use stow ? [cfr. http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html] Or does make

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Chameleon DSP engine

2002-08-16 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 11:18:54AM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: (cut) Price: We got them donated, but they cost about half a car, if you get them new, we have been told. That would be a showstopper for me :) 1000$ is one thing, but I cannot afford 2500$+ It seems interesting though. I'll let

Re: [linux-audio-dev] What I think about reborn.

2002-08-16 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:31:22PM +0200, Tobias Ulbricht wrote: Rediculus! where has tolerance, hospitality and an unbiased attitude towards others gone that this list had so far? ACK. I have been upset by some messages on this list too. I didn't want to react as it seemed like *an utter waste

Re: [linux-audio-dev] midi events in jack callback (was: Reborn)

2002-08-16 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:22:35PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: (cut) 2) is cheap, the patch exists, and we should consider promoting it as widely as the low latency patches. (cut) Ok, let the lobbying begin :) v

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Chameleon DSP engine

2002-08-14 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:25:45PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: (cut) Ok, I grasp your intent, its a good idea. Letting a DSP idle is not the best idea, so if you can use it for specific computations, that would be nice. Could you tell me exactly what you would do with this board and how that

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Chameleon DSP engine

2002-08-13 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 12:14:12PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: (cut) The Chameleon isn't quite as convienent as it can't be applied in-line as part of a LADSPA/JACK chain. (cut) Wait for the digital IO in the next version :) Sure this is possible now too, but with extra D/A - A/D - Chameleon -

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Chameleon DSP engine

2002-08-13 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:44:23AM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: Give our project a sample board, a data sheet and some time then we'll integrate it into our Linux-DSP-Project. You can find it under http://osg.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/forschung/linux+dsp/index.html I'm not sure I fully grasp the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Chameleon DSP engine

2002-08-13 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:44:23AM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: (cut) Give our project a sample board, a data sheet and some time then we'll integrate it into our Linux-DSP-Project. (cut) I read your paper and it interests me to say the least. The thing that is driving me to use the Chameleon is its

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Chameleon DSP engine

2002-08-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
http://www.soundart-hot.com/developers1.htm Remembering past threads, i know some of you have wanted to create a fully programmable DSP engine. Well, it has been done. Separate DSP controller, fully programmable display and IO. SDK and everything needed to program the beast are given away for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Chameleon DSP engine

2002-08-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 03:52:47PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: Sadly it can't be programmed form linux (or couldn't last time I checked). Well, it uses a standard motorola dsp. I'm sure you can find a suitable compiler. Then you only need an editor and a way to send your data over in sysex.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Chameleon DSP engine

2002-08-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 05:26:50PM +0200, Tim Goetze wrote: (cut) Anyway, that thing looks usable. (cut) Very much so :) v

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Chameleon DSP engine

2002-08-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:44:38PM +0200, Sebastien Metrot wrote: Mine does :-) , but have you listened to the sample soundclips (the opera singer)? It sounds so bad I wonder how they expect to sell anything with such material. Here it sounds good actually :) Also expect loss of quality due to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] CDDA interface - How to convert to float? Any library?

2002-08-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 02:07:20PM -0500, Mark Rages wrote: (cut) Well, I've never had any problems with cdparanoia, but the web page is full of Real Soon Now hype for Paranoia IV which will have a library and API for others to use. (cut) :) I guess they forgot then I guess the Xiph boys have

Re: [linux-audio-dev] analysis/resynthesis environment? -- and scientific-audio-list?

2002-08-08 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 03:39:11PM -0700, Andrew W. Schmeder wrote: (cut) features, e.g. cell arrays, better object support, java integration. However these days I recommend Python with Numeric/Scientific/SciPy extensions over Octave (and over Matlab). In addition to Python's unquestionably

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App intercomunication issues, some views.

2002-07-25 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:24:56AM +0100, Phil Kerr wrote: (cut) It's a very simple protocol to use and it seems to work fine on a LAN. It can also handle the saving and restoring of app config data by broadcasting it's config as XML. (cut) Just thinking out lout :) If you use this on the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] Some good news for once

2002-07-25 Thread Vincent Touquet
Maybe we should check out if they are seeking to actively sponsore software audio projects ;) vincent

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:30:22AM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: ok, but the question is, what for? What else do you need other than start/stop/seek ? doesnt midi proovide that already? then why something else? Also using midi you make sure that what you do is synced to external devices... You

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:43:36AM +0200, n++k wrote: Why not use an SQL database for storing session/project metadata? (configuration and such) We have the benefit of having a few quite stable free software SQL databases. (mysql, postgresql, sapdb) so requiring one wouldn't be too much to ask..

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 04:56:06AM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: And also you cant do the neat thing of asking all your apps to save all their data to a directory so you can create a targzip with the project :) That point is irrelevant, you can extract everything from the database and tar gzip.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App intercomunication issues, some views.

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:07:43AM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: Does this help? http://developer.gnome.org/arch/sm/extension.html (cut) _GSM_Priority (cut) So their would be a dependency on gnome-session-manager (and what else ?) regards vini

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App intercomunication issues, some views.

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:09:32PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: (cut) Yes, It's terrible. I remeber hearing from someone a year or so ago, who was incharge of cleaning up the source. I never heard any more though. Well he had to clean it up, I guess he just escaped and ran away ;) vini

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App intercomunication issues, some views.

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:38:25PM +0200, Martijn Sipkema wrote: (cut) Using UST would also enable syncing to video or some other media stream without it all residing in the same API. (cut) That would certainly make me very happy :) vini

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:00:15PM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: (cut) Yes, I agree that midi sucks. I'm wondering why dont we have a newer protocol by now, but we dont. So there's nothing else than having to stick to that archaic crap :) (cut) What about Yamaha's mLan ? I thought that was some

Re: [linux-audio-dev] (no subject)

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:14:18PM -0500, Arthur Peters wrote: (cut) I think there might be problems with option 1 when the apps are running on different machines (as was mensioned earlier). Maybe a hybrid would work: provide an API for each app to pass it's data to the project server. This data

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
Yamaha has a large NDA tradition, making lots of things impossible. As another example: the filesystem format of their A series samples storage. It would be so nice if you could mount these disks in Linux too, but yammy refuses without an NDA ... Ask them the question though :) They have to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App intercomunication issues, some views.

2002-07-22 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:44:00PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:18:46PM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: I think this can be solved by developing a metadata protocol between apps, so the can intercommunicate status and other things, and having a master app that manages

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Defaults via RDF

2002-07-18 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 05:11:06AM +0200, Torben Hohn wrote: BTW: I consider XML to be bloat. At least it is portable bloat ;) No, seriously, xml has advantages over plain ascii, when you consider xslt, rdf, ... etc etc regards vini

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADPSA v1.1 SDK Provisional Release

2002-07-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 02:40:36AM +0300, Kai Vehmanen wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Paul Winkler wrote: Without breaking binary compatibility, Can someone explain to me why that's important at this point in time? Well, it's not _that_ important, but there are a few good reasons... 1) The

Re: [linux-audio-dev] 1000HZ ticks for x86 in the 2.5-tree

2002-07-07 Thread Vincent Touquet
Yum, can't wait till 2.6 hits the streets :) vincent RTC is still more accurate, but on the other hand, you don't need root privileges to take advantage of the 1kHz ticks! -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-22 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:13:43AM +0200, David Olofson wrote: Well, I'll try to get started before you get bored... ;-) ;-) Well, I read all the stuff you wrote and I agree. Especially the idea of logical vertices and lines is a good one and most of the time, though not always beautiful ideas

Re: [linux-audio-dev] the gibson patent

2002-06-22 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:39:18PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: (cut) And by the by, what on earth is going on with this? What's going on to do something about this situation? It seems many people are aware of the USPTO's idiocy, yet they are still allowed to carry on being idiots. Why are people

Re: [linux-audio-dev] IRC

2002-06-22 Thread Vincent Touquet
Nope, not yet, I'm on my way though to join you :) Not everyone likes irc though, and that's ok :) regards Vini On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:59:30PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: I've been looking around for IRC channels populated by lad people but to no avail. Have I missed a place, or is there none?

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-21 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:28:14PM +0200, David Olofson wrote: That said, the XMMS/WinAmp model *is* in fact of the first kind I mention above; GUIs with custom graphics. A skin for such an application is basically just a set of images that replace the original custom graphics. It's like

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-21 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:20:20PM +0200, David Olofson wrote: (cut) of programming. It looks like it would be a fast and easy hack, as everything's so visually obvious and intuitive, but that's just an illusion... I think I agree, though my GUI programming experience is quite nonexistant :)

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-21 Thread Vincent Touquet
Cool, they must be lucky I didn't think of patenting it when I just thought of it now ;) vincent On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:05:10AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: Sounds quite a lot like the way almost every GUI toolkit I've looked at works (see XForms, GTK+, Qt, Gtkmm for examples) :) --p

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-21 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:36:49PM -0700, STEFFL, ERIK *Internet* (SBCSI) wrote: freeamp allows you to specify bitmaps of arbitrary size/shape for gui elements and place them where you want (there's an xml file that specifies the GUI), you can omit the GUI elements you don't need/want in

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
Continuing in the thinking out loud department, so I don't have to study ;): Seems a waste to hardcode all the GUI stuff though. How do they get about theming their controls in Xmms / mplayer ... ? Slider bars get different sizes and sometimes shapes in such programs, yet they retain their

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:19:56AM +0100, nick wrote: (cut) Theyre not *that* difficult really, it's just the initial learning which already (this is from my experience writing amSynth http://amsynthe.sf.net). The problem is that everyone likes a different toolkit.. for example, I used GTK--, and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
Keep this idea on hold for a while (but keep on discussing :). I'm going offlist for a while (won't read it till end of June), cause exames are up and I always find a good excuse inhere not to study ;) so see you later ! regards Vini

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-12 Thread Vincent Touquet
My exams are over in just over a week, and I intend on getting my pc running linux full time with alsa and stuff. I really want to help do /something/ in the linux sound area - at the moment I'm very definetly on the needing help stage. Great, more power to you !! If you need help, post on the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Broadcast 2000 successor, Cinelerra available.

2002-06-11 Thread Vincent Touquet
There is some bad news lurking too, let's hope this posting: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=687636forum_id=164360 doesn't reflect the authors real intentions for the future ... :( regards Vincent On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:02:16PM +0100, Phil Kerr wrote: Hi List, Slashdot

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:30:36AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: (cut) Read the archives. We've been through this before. I'm not going through it again. (cut) ACK ! Every once in a while people bring up the same questions people in this list thought long and hard about and solved. Before you

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
(cut) I'm afraid i didnt make myself clear. I tried to expain this in previous mails, but I think i'm failing so far. I perfectly understand what JACK is, but as I said before, it's primarily meant for low latency stuff. So my proposal consisted in two things. 1-The first one is to proovide

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:09:01PM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: (cut) I think Kai Vehmanen did a much better job explaining this than myself, since I dont know the internals of alsalib. I'll just repost what he said: (cut) Ok :) If you want what Kai and Taybin are referring to, its doable, it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Low latency and X11 Direct Rendering

2002-06-09 Thread Vincent Touquet
Do you know if these patches will make it into the mainline kernel ? I don't know what objections there could be to a conditional_reschedule() ? regards Vincent On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 11:00:53PM +0300, Jussi Laako wrote: Yes, I have made some lowlatency additions to Matrox and ATI drivers. At

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] A novel approach to real-time free software

2002-06-08 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 01:11:10AM +0200, David Olofson wrote: (cut) From the application POV, both approaches give the same result: Two worlds with different schedulers and services - and unfortunately, different drivers. That is, if you want real time I/O, you still have to port Linux

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] A novel approach to real-time free software

2002-06-03 Thread Vincent Touquet
I took the freedom to announce this here :) I think it is a _great_ step forward for low latency, besides the low latency and interruptible kernel patches. Announcement: http://www.opersys.com/press/prelease-adeos-020603.html LKML thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10230935972r=1w=2

[linux-audio-dev] [OT] test - please ignore

2002-03-17 Thread Vincent Touquet
[OT] test - please ignore

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