hi,
this might be slightly off topic, but I guess it's a good place to ask such a question ...
has any one on this list a multichannel (i.e. several stereo in/outs) working on a laptop ? what interfaces are there ? what drivers ? what's the route to take firewire ? pcmcia ? usb (yuck!) ?
regards
x
Here are some links to available solutions, though unfortunaltely only working with Macintosh or Windows at the moment :
Firewire: http://www.mhlabs.com/mobileio/mio.html http://www.motu.com/english/motuaudio/828/body.html http://www.crestaudio.com/html/fb88.html
PCMCIA: http://www.rme-audio.com/english/hdsp/index.htm http://www.magma.com/pci/pci_2slot.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "CK" x@meta.lo-res.org To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:28 PM Subject: [PD] laptop multichannel solutions under linux ?
hi,
this might be slightly off topic, but I guess it's a good place to ask such a question ...
has any one on this list a multichannel (i.e. several stereo in/outs) working on a laptop ? what interfaces are there ? what drivers ? what's the route to take firewire ? pcmcia ? usb (yuck!) ?
regards
x
-- chris@lo-res.org Postmodernism is german romanticism with better http://pilot.fm/ special effects. (Jeff Keuss / via ctheory.com)
I was just thinking: May be the Magma PCI extension chassis could work under Linux. It seems there is no need for special drivers, but I'm not sure. And it's quite expensive. BR Nicolas
Dear Nicolas,
It doesn't and they don't have any desire to write open source or even commercial drivers for Linux. The Digigram Card (VX-Pocket) was the other solution for Mac and Windoze but the situation is pretty much the same. Apparently there is a going to be an ALSA driver for another PCMCIA card but please forgive me I don't have the information at hand.
_ Juan
I was just thinking: May be the Magma PCI extension chassis could work under Linux. It seems there is no need for special drivers, but I'm not sure. And it's quite expensive. BR Nicolas
Dear Juan,
I agree with you, but let's hope that RME will provide some drivers for their PCMCIA solution. As most of you know, there's already an Alsa driver for their Hammerfall card : http://www.rme-audio.com/english/linux/alsa/alsa.htm On this page, they say: "ALSA support for the Hammerfall breaks the annoying chicken/egg principle: no professional hardware/driver - no professional software... RME is proud to be a part of this first big step for Linux towards a professional audio usage. Possibly bothered by the Hammerfall's appearance on the Linux scene, some of our competitors have now followed our example. Drivers for other well-known cards and chips in the professional market are expected in the near future." And I hope all these companies will write some open source drivers for Linux in the future, when we'll have the best multimedia platform, thanks to Demudi distribution :) : http://www.demudi.org/ Yes, I'm optimistic !
Have a good day ! Nicolas
----- Original Message ----- From: "Juan Reyes" juanig@ccrma.stanford.edu To: "Nicolas Lhommet" nlhommet@netcourrier.com Cc: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:32 AM Subject: Re: [PD] laptop multichannel solutions under linux ?
Dear Nicolas,
It doesn't and they don't have any desire to write open source or even commercial drivers for Linux. The Digigram Card (VX-Pocket) was the other solution for Mac and Windoze but the situation is pretty much the same. Apparently there is a going to be an ALSA driver for another PCMCIA card but please forgive me I don't have the information at hand.
_ Juan
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nicolas Lhommet wrote:
And I hope all these companies will write some open source drivers for Linux in the future, when we'll have the best multimedia platform, thanks to Demudi distribution :) : http://www.demudi.org/ Yes, I'm optimistic !
:) ,
It's nice that someone is doing the "marketing" for us, I am just coming back from the first official demudi meeting, where I had the chance to meet in person "Mr Linux Audio" Dave Philipps as well as "Mr Ardour" Paul Davies, who, btw told me that ALSA will provide support for RME's PCMCIA card, but not quite yet, ... so in a few months it will be here, hopefully early enough to be included into the first release of DeMuDi.
Guenter
Hi,
Having a headache saving floating point samples with Soundfiler. It works fine, and I guess this is not really a Pd problem, but my editor (CoolEdit Pro, winNT) can't open Sun/Next files which use floats (doh) :(
Similarly Soundfiler can't save wav or aiff using floats, only Sun/Next (doh) :(
I can't seem to write a floating point sound as raw data either - only as ASCII text using 'write' message to an array, and the editor takes ages to interpret the text..... :(
I could 'con' CEP to open the Next floating point files as raw data, then manually cut off the header blip - except I can't find the right floating point format in CEP. The options are:
32-bit IEEE float (0.24) 32-bit IEEE float (16.8) 32-bit IEEE float (24.0) 24-bit packed Intel PCM 24-bit packed Motorola PCM
and then 'Offset input data by: 0 +1 +2 +3'.
Anyone have any suggestions? (apologies for this not really being a 'pure-pure-data' issue, as it were).
nick
guenter geiger wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nicolas Lhommet wrote:
And I hope all these companies will write some open source drivers for Linux in the future, when we'll have the best multimedia platform, thanks to Demudi distribution :) : http://www.demudi.org/ Yes, I'm optimistic !
:) ,
It's nice that someone is doing the "marketing" for us, I am just coming back from the first official demudi meeting, where I had the chance to meet in person "Mr Linux Audio" Dave Philipps as well as "Mr Ardour" Paul Davies, who, btw told me that ALSA will provide support for RME's PCMCIA card, but not quite yet, ... so in a few months it will be here, hopefully early enough to be included into the first release of DeMuDi.
Guenter
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