Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: real-time threaded IO with low latency (audio) | Date | Sat, 24 Jul 1999 12:50:39 -0400 | From | Paul Barton-Davis <> |
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In message <3799D135.B58ADB4@swipnet.se>you write: >> that my friend has. why are you requiring the computer based solutions >> to have properties not shared by their inspiration ? i'm not saying >> its wrong, but i just don't understand the insistence on this ... > >Hard disk recording.
Do you know anyone who does professional HDR on a computer ? I don't, and everything I've read in EM and Mix suggests that nobody in their right minds does this. Protools interfaced with a computer, Paris interfaced with a computer, yes, but thats not what we're talking about.
>Audio/MIDI sequencers.
MIDI sequencing is not a problem, or rather, its certainly not a deep problem. Audio is, however.
>"Cool" Windoze/Mac DAW style
These all rely on external hardware if they do the job right. Furthermore, many of these packages are soundfile editors and playback systems, not real-time processing systems. Linux can do this stuff OK already, though I guess there are still playback problems to be fully solved.
>Yeah, Kyma/Capybara looks pretty nice. Can you send me a system? ;-)
I'm about to buy one. I'm setting up the first semi-pro Linux-based recording studio :) We'll be using Windows or Mac stuff for a while and then gradually move into a 100% Linux configuration as I manage to get Creamware (Scope) and Symbolic Sound (Kyma) to co-operate :)
>BTW, do you think you can expect a UN*X-like programming environment >when programming Kyma plug-ins?
No. Its a graphical system. You build stuff with the mouse, then the Mac/Windows software compiles it down to 56309 code, and ships it over the wire to the Capybara.
>Well, off course it all depends on what you want to do. I want rock >solid recording and editing with real time monitoring through the >virtual mixer. Preferably, everything should be running as long as the >audio apps are running. The feel of analog machines and dedicated boxes >with the advantages of having it all in the same environment.
I want the same things. I'm just not sure that I want to use RTL to do it. But I'll think more about it.
>need buffering in the order of seconds, unless you want to grab the >fastest drive money can buy
thats my general plan, yes :) i think seagate cheetahs are about it for now (5ms seek time, they fly!)
--p
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