Thanks everybody for your suggestions and comments on this PDA thread. I think there were a lot of folks on the list that didn't even *know* that PD runs on PDAs, so that was a nice side effect ;-)
A few of you mentioned that PD might be "overkill" for the simple purpose of recording and tagging soundfiles. This is true, but my final idea depends on a certain amount of processing [not necessarily realtime] to be done to the sound recorded. In the end, I want my PDA to generate small algorithmic "compositions" using soundfiles it gathers.
So, a few more questions in this vein, if you don't mind:
- If I decide not to use PD, is there another fairly full-featured
recording and processing program that takes command-line arguments and also runs on PDAs? I am thinking of Ecasound in particular, but I don't know how much modification of the program is necessary to run it on a PDA processor.
- Does anybody know of a PDA-linux-audio specific site, forum, board or
list?
- In PD, I assume that writing a sound to file is less prone to
clicks-and-cuts on a minimal system such as a PDA than playing to DAC. Is this correct?
- Guenter mentioned that max soundfile array size in PDa is 8 secs.
Does that only has to do with arrays which are being accessed? Or is that the max size that PDa can write to "disk" [i.e. Smart Flash memory] as well [also in a non-realtime situation]?
- Any idea if things like LADSPA plugins work on a PDA? [Also in
non-realtime mode.]
TIA! Derek