Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread Nedko Arnaudov
Julien Claassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Yes the autotools are good. cmake might be better, but it is not as well known and often used as autotools and scons. As I heard scons should be enough for a lot of things. Even for multi platform stuff. Csound uses it and seems fine with

Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread Emanuel Rumpf
2008/7/23 Nedko Arnaudov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd sugeest you waf, takes goods sides of autotools (separate configure stage), scons (python) and cmake (nice progress indication). And even has good features that are unique. Like. waf being part of source tree, thus multiple developers cannot end

[LAD] Searching for USB Sound-Chip

2008-07-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello *, I am developing a new Hardware and I am searching for an Ausio/Soundchip which support natively USB. And of course, it should be supported by ALSA and posible OSS (for embedded systems). All I need is to capture the ouput of a GSM-Chip and of course, output Sound/Voice to the

Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Jul 22, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Darren Landrum wrote: I've been looking around for a library to read and write SFZ files, which is an open sampler format released by Cakewalk: http://www.cakewalk.com/DevXchange/sfz.asp Finding none, I thought I might try my hand at writing a library for

Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 08:41 -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote: I'd strongly suggest you consider learning C if you want to maximize other people using your library. If you write the library in C++ it will be hard for anyone but C++ users to use it. If you write it in straight C, or at least

Re: [LAD] embedded high end audio

2008-07-23 Thread Phil Frost
I have an Echo Indigo IO that I had working in linux. It's a 2 in, 2 out Cardbus device. As I recall, I had to build a kernel because whatever distro I was using didn't include the driver, but it was part of the standard ALSA distribution. There is also a 4x4 version called the Indigo DJ

Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 09:02 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: in my experience, not so good advice. lexer+parser generators are great for certain kinds of things, actually more like indispensable. but for parsing audio files, they really are not very well suited for the task. these are binary files

Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:25:47PM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote: Hi! Paul: As I understood the sfz format is text-based. I didn't take a look. But depending on what it looks like, a parser generator might be good advice. If the SFZ is an xml variant libxml might be better suited. I

Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread gordonjcp
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:25:47PM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote: Hi! Paul: As I understood the sfz format is text-based. I didn't take a look. But depending on what it looks like, a parser generator might be good advice. If the SFZ is an xml variant libxml might be better suited.

Re: [LAD] [OT] CD-R masters, block error rate and dvd-r mystery...

2008-07-23 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: * how on earth can the same content burned via cdrdao to a CD-R on a cdrw drive (Plextor) and a dvdrw drive (LG) differ in several hundred thousand bytes when read back in with cdparanoia? hmm. again, here's what i did: i burned the same disk-at-once session four

Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread Darren Landrum
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not XML, it's a sort of flat-text-ish thing with various keywords for setting keys, keygroups, mutegroups and so on. Having briefly skimmed the spec over lunch, I'm not in much of a position to say how good it is, but it looks right. Essentially an SFZ file

Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread Darren Landrum
Julien Claassen wrote: Hi Darren! I'd still suggest on going linuxsampler. There's a basic framework already. I'm not the skillful programmer myself, otherwise I'd like to help. But reasons for my point: 1. LS has already MIDI and audio drivers working. 2. LS offers a clear structure and

Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread Anders Dahnielson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 16:41, Darren Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not XML, it's a sort of flat-text-ish thing with various keywords for setting keys, keygroups, mutegroups and so on. Having briefly skimmed the spec over lunch, I'm not in much of a

Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread Anders Dahnielson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 15:25, Julien Claassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Paul: As I understood the sfz format is text-based. I didn't take a look. But depending on what it looks like, a parser generator might be good advice. If the SFZ is an xml variant libxml might be better suited.

Re: [LAD] Writing a library?

2008-07-23 Thread Pelle Nilsson
Anders Dahnielson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's a simple tokenizer for SFZ I wrote once upon a time in Python. Not sure if I got it completely right. *snip* I was just about to suggest checking out the sampler/synth/sequencer/tracker engine libzzub, that happens to include Python bindings:

Re: [LAD] Linux Plumbers Conference CFP Extended!

2008-07-23 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 23.07.08 16:28, Pieter Palmers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Heya! The Call For Papers for the Linux Plumbers Conference has been extended until *July 31st*! Anyone doing (audio) infrastructure work on Linux? If so, please make sure to join us at the Linux Plumbers Conference in

Re: [LAD] [OT] CD-R masters, block error rate and dvd-r mystery...

2008-07-23 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:18:57PM +0200, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: when i cmp cdrwN to dvdrN, pooof! several thousand bytes differ. Any obvious pattern in the differences and/or their position ? -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia O tu, che porte, correndo si ?

Re: [LAD] [OT] CD-R masters, block error rate and dvd-r mystery...

2008-07-23 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
hi anthony! thanks for your reply. i'm cc:ing the list so that others can benefit from it as well... Anthony Kozar wrote: Hi Joern, This is just a shot in the dark, but most audio CD tracks have a lead-in time of 2 or more seconds. CD players will typically count down using negative