Re: [PD] [OT] mini-ITX again

2008-02-27 Thread David Merrill
Hi Derek - One quick hint that I've found in working on the audiopint project (audiopint.org) is that the audio chipsets on mini-itx boards do not tend to be very high quality - specifically, they are noisy - you can hear memory access, and other capacitive coupling from traces on the

Re: [PD] [OT] mini-ITX again

2008-02-27 Thread David Merrill
2004 that is better for the money than the EPIA MII 12000G 1.2Ghz. All the docs about Linux + audio + Mini-ITX are at least three years old! best, d. David Merrill wrote: Hi Derek - One quick hint that I've found in working on the audiopint project (audiopint.org) is that the audio chipsets

Re: [PD] [OT] mini-ITX again

2008-02-27 Thread David Merrill
Hi Derek - The fan is pretty quiet, so I wouldn't worry about fan noise in your equation.. With respect to which EPIA board - I have been happy with the performance of all of the ones I've used, but I wasn't doing particularly compute-heavy operations most of the time. For instance, I

Re: [PD] t b b f etc...

2007-11-21 Thread David Merrill
Basically, computers are dumb animals, and need to be told exactly what to do and in what order, or else they get confused and don't do things the way you expect. well, to be a little more precise: when an outlet is connected to multiple inlets, the order in which messages from the outlet

Re: [PD] [OT] Re: about sexism is TERMINATE THREAD PLEASE

2007-10-16 Thread David Merrill
so to hell if you're not concerned how girls are treated in the pd community ( actually just as meat and object of greasy jokes ), so again, yeh, sorry, they won't participate to nothing here! yves, I haven't noticed anything offensive on the list like you describe (maybe you're mixing life

Re: [PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread David Merrill
Hi Stuart - A hacked USB keyboard makes a nice button-bank, and you can typically strip away most of its size, leaving just a little circuit board with wires coming out to your buttons. You can read the button-presses with Hans's [hid] object. here's one that we did some time ago...

Re: [PD] Simple midi controller for installation

2007-08-28 Thread David Merrill
the start process (c, s, return or the system runtime). if people have buttons in installation they will not stop pressing them during a restart of the machine... marius. David Merrill wrote: Hi Stuart - A hacked USB keyboard makes a nice button-bank, and you can typically strip away most

Re: [PD] some images...

2007-08-27 Thread David Merrill
Yes, it was great go see/meet everyone! Huge thanks to the organizers, who did a lot of work to plan such a nice series of events over the week. The chance to meet people who were previously just names on the pd-list was perhaps the most important part of the event, and I think this mingling and

Re: [PD] [PD + GEM] Siggraph

2007-08-03 Thread David Merrill
Hello everyone - I'll be at Siggraph, showing a project that has pd inside, called the Sound of Touch. http://web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/soundoftouch.html (my collaborator's URL, same project) http://www.rafelandia.com/sound%20of%20touch/index.html Any other pd-ers who will be there please come

Re: [PD] another PDa platform

2007-07-12 Thread David Merrill
to the audiopint. They are quite slow. This one is 233Mhz. It mostly interesting because it's small, cheap, and low power. .hc On Jul 12, 2007, at 7:01 PM, David Merrill wrote: Hey HC - That sounds like an intriguing platform for the Audiopint.. So it has on-board audio, and can run PDa unmodified

Re: [PD] [ot][hardware] mini-itx

2007-07-06 Thread David Merrill
http://audiopint.org/ Basically, I've had it with laptop performances, where the interface just drags the performer into his/her own little world behind the screen. I know I'm not alone in this. I've been using my analog synth more and more lately, with the laptop on stage just as an auxiliary

Re: [PD] [ot][hardware] mini-itx

2007-06-30 Thread David Merrill
actually have disabled the on-board audio. Let me know if you'd like to know about other aspects of the what/why for out setup.. best, -David Merrill On 6/30/07, Derek Holzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently shopping around for a small motherboard that I can put in a headless (no screen

Re: [PD] USB Sound card

2007-05-04 Thread David Merrill
I have been using low-cost iMic USB audio interfaces, and they work really well. Shows right up under linux, and the noise floor is way below the built-in audio on my motherboard. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812999078 cheers, -David M. On 5/4/07, David F. Place [EMAIL

Re: [PD] OT: Jeff Han + The Crappy State of Mobile Phones (was Apple iPhone)

2007-01-12 Thread David Merrill
Hmm - well the technique that Han uses isn't appropriate for a device as small at the phone. (basically, his technique features a camera looking at the display surface from underneath - meaning that it requires a substantial amount of throw underneath, which isn't available in a mobile phone).

Re: [PD] DesireData 0.39.A.pre3

2006-11-27 Thread David Merrill
I would love to see some video from this event, if anyone has some.. cheers, -David M. padawan12 wrote: Chun gave an entertaining and informative talk on DD saturday at the FAVE2006 gathering. Watching the multi-stage history/undo stack and object insert features was really exciting. Also