Hello list,
I worked w/MAX already and now I'm evaluating PD for a interactive installation. The system will play multiple soundfiles over 8 outputs simultaneously. The sample playback is modified real-time by the properties of sound that is recorded over microphones on 8 other channels (possibly fft?). The mapping of in and out is partially dynamic.
My questions are: does PD work with other HW than hammerfall (win or linux)? Can I use DSP cards with PD? And witch OS is generally recommended (not to hack PD, but to have a easy-to-handle and efficient system for a short time project)? How's the overall performance with multiple simultaneous in and outs/sound analysis/realtime sample playback, especially compared to MAX on an apple?
Many thanks for your help! I really hope to be able to use PD as a opensource sound solution.
daniel
hi, pd works with any hardware supported by the operating-system (linux for example does not support every card but most). nevertheless linux has the best performance, depending on your cpu and soundcard it is can be really fast. there once was a performance-test posted on this list where linux was slightly faster than MAC OS (X, I think) and much faster than windows. marius.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Hug" d.hug@hyperwerk.ch To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 10:43 AM Subject: [PD] PD & hardware
Hello list,
I worked w/MAX already and now I'm evaluating PD for a interactive installation. The system will play multiple soundfiles over 8 outputs simultaneously. The sample playback is modified real-time by the
properties
of sound that is recorded over microphones on 8 other channels (possibly fft?). The mapping of in and out is partially dynamic.
My questions are: does PD work with other HW than hammerfall (win or linux)? Can I use DSP cards with PD? And witch OS is generally recommended (not to hack PD, but to have a easy-to-handle and efficient system for a short time project)? How's the overall performance with multiple simultaneous in and outs/sound analysis/realtime sample playback, especially compared to MAX on an apple?
Many thanks for your help! I really hope to be able to use PD as a opensource sound solution.
daniel
the article was http://mambo.peabody.jhu.edu/~karlmac/publications/latency-icmc2001.pdf marius
----- Original Message ----- From: "marius schebella" marius.schebella@chello.at To: "Daniel Hug" d.hug@hyperwerk.ch; pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [PD] PD & hardware
hi, pd works with any hardware supported by the operating-system (linux for example does not support every card but most). nevertheless linux has the best performance, depending on your cpu and soundcard it is can be really fast. there once was a performance-test posted on this list where linux
was
slightly faster than MAC OS (X, I think) and much faster than windows. marius.
Daniel Hug hat gesagt: // Daniel Hug wrote:
My questions are: does PD work with other HW than hammerfall (win or linux)?
I can speak for Linux only. If you use PD with the ALSA soundsystem, you can use a lot of multichannel cards other than RME's. The M-Audio Delta cards or equivalent cards by Hoontech or Terratec are well supported, and with ALSA and a low-latency-patched kernel PD is very responsive.
Can I use DSP cards with PD?
I think, most of these are unsupported under Linux. I doubt, that PD can make use of DSP cards anyway, but I'm not sure.
And witch OS is generally recommended (not to hack PD, but to have a easy-to-handle and efficient system for a short time project)?
On my short tests with PD under Windows 2000 I have found, that the GUI feels very sluggish compared to Linux.
bye,
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