[PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-08-31 Thread umberto torrez
Hi list, i was wondering which is the best approach for controlling a lots of speakers with pd? 50 ? Is there any hardware or technique that allows to do this and that is not so expensive? any idea? Umberto. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE a

Re: [PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-08-31 Thread J Oliver
expensive is a problem. I have only used madi cards for such a long number of speakers, but then you need some way of getting analog outs to the speakers... J *** Jaime Oliver www.jaimeoliver.pe jo2...@columbia.edu Columbia University On Aug 31, 2012, at 11:58 AM, umberto torr

Re: [PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-08-31 Thread José Rafael Subía Valdez
the expensive parts are the speakers and the audio interfaces.. although, Fernando Lopez Lezcano presented a very interesting technique in LAC2012 "*From Jack to UDP packets to sound, and back"... http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/program* once you have that part, I guess it all depends on your progra

Re: [PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-08-31 Thread Miller Puckette
Best solution I've seen so far is by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano -- there's a paper in the Linux Audio Conference 2012: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/papers/29.pdf cheers miller On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:58:50PM +0200, umberto torrez wrote: > Hi list, i was wondering which is the best approach for c

Re: [PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-08-31 Thread batinste
Hi I use a M-audio profire lightbridge : 4 ADAT outputs (that's 32 outputs). I guess you could use 2 of these (on the same computer (see Apple) or with 2 computers talking via network). They're bloody affordable these days. On 31/08/2012 17:58, umberto torrez wrote: Hi list, i was wondering

Re: [PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-09-02 Thread Andy Farnell
A question to consider; Do the channels need a high degree of phase stability? Fernando is designing for a WFS system here. You may have more relaxed requirements for a theatre or installation multichannel system not needing such a degree of correlation. Using a very simliar approach with jack-

Re: [PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-09-02 Thread umberto torrez
Hi, Andy and how does your system work? Do you have a link? How many speakers are you using? I dont need high degree of phase stability , i need to control 50 very cheap speakers. I dont really mind if they dont produce all the frequency range. If each speaker generate only one frequency , its ok

Re: [PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-09-02 Thread Iain Mott
perhaps your speakers already have amplifiers - if not, i came across this link recently for cheap amps: http://reviews.cnet.com/amplifiers-preamps-processors/lepai-lp-2020a/4505-7871_7-35190789.html cheers, Iain Em Dom, 2012-09-02 às 21:18 +0200, umberto torrez escreveu: > Hi, Andy and how d

Re: [PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-09-02 Thread Andy Farnell
In that case Umberto, one more specific question; Do you need these speakers to play simultaneously, or for just one to make a sound at any time? Andy On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:18:55PM +0200, umberto torrez wrote: > Hi, Andy and how does your system work? Do you have a link? > How many speake

Re: [PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-09-02 Thread umberto torrez
simultaneously would be better. but maybe not the 50 at the same time , maybe simultaneously up to 8? Is it too much difference? simultaneously vs no simultaneously? cheers U. 2012/9/2 Andy Farnell > > > In that case Umberto, one more specific question; > > Do you need these speakers to

Re: [PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-09-02 Thread Andy Farnell
Okay, then best to stick with one DAC per channel I was going to suggest a super cheapy hack for the case where you just want one sound to have multiple possible speaker sources, which is to use an audio switch based on 4011 bilateral switches, with a single amplifier and an Arduino to multip

Re: [PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

2012-09-02 Thread Simon Wise
On 03/09/12 03:28, Iain Mott wrote: perhaps your speakers already have amplifiers - if not, i came across this link recently for cheap amps: http://reviews.cnet.com/amplifiers-preamps-processors/lepai-lp-2020a/4505-7871_7-35190789.html these are rather nice little stereo amps for a good price,