Try jack (jackit.sf.net) it will help you in part with what you want. latest ardour CVS requires this.
_J In the new year, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > > >As far as the ardour is concerned, when I start it with -D rme9652 -i > 8 > > >-o 8 flags, and press play it only plays a quick "click-like" snippet > of > > >a sound and immediately stops (no xruns reported). Why is this > happening > > >(I am using the 4-6 days old CVS version)? > > > > no idea. your description sort of implies you can record with ardour > > ... or did you just insert a pre-existing soundfile? > > I inserted pre-existing soundfile. What is also interesting that when > the sound stops it is also pretending as if I pressed the stop button > (it does not freeze or continue to pretend as if it is playing sound). I > will try the latest cvs as well as recompile the alsa drivers in hope > that will make it work. > > > > > the hammerfall cannot do this. the hammerfall-DSP can do matrix > > routing of signals between channels, but it does not mix software > > streams down to a channel. > > Crap! :-) So does this mean that RME card cannot be accessed from > multiple applications at the same time? This is one of the most annoying > limitations Linux audio architecture has had ever! It automatically > eliminates any kind of real-time multi-channel performance capability > where one wants to utilize multiple processes (i.e. pd, jmax and cmix > running at the same time). Even the old SGI's had this solved in a very > elegant fashion, needless to mention OS X or Windows (yes, I know, I > know, at the expense of latency, but at least I was not limited to using > one app at the time)... It seems that if someone wants to do a > multi-channel installation using linux and is interested in > live/interactive music, the best bet would be to purchase several SBlive > cards (with their horrid resampling stuff) and use them for mixing > (unfortunately none of them come as laptop models). > > Do you know whether this software mixing stuff done in SBLive soundcard > is done in hardware or in software that the creative has released? > > If it is in software, then someone could easily reverse-engineer it and > find out how they've done it, which would greatly help make other > drivers behave in the same fashion. > > Is there a way for artsd to be aware of the multiple channels RME card > has and for artsd to provide software downmixing despite the fact RME > has no mixer? > > > > > > i would note in passing that there are people in the SF bay area who > > are prepared to pay US$600-$1000 to have machines set up to run linux > > audio software. its not a trivial thing to do, despite what you may > > hope for and might have read. in fact, its no more or less trivial > > than getting windows/macos setup for proper operation with audio > > software. > > I am somewhat aware of this, but being primarily a musician, I am > growing extremely tired of doing continuous maintenance work instead of > composing. All work and no play makes...<feel free to add the rest> :-( > > Ico > > > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
