Matt Jadud <[email protected]> writes: > Hi all, > > I offered to my students the opportunity to do something creative for > their final projects this semester. One of them wanted to do some > livecoding in Fluxus. This is awesome. > > Our sysadmin got 0.14 installed against PLT 372 using Redhat RPMs. > Hopefully, that's "stable enough" for experimentation. (Also, it's > what is now installed, because it was easiest and quickest. I'm not > going to complain on that count at all.)
If you plan on audio synthesis 0.14 isnt the best bet as fluxa wasnt available so if this is a requirement its best to upgrade. > > The lame part is me not knowing where to start, because I've never sat > down and done any serious playing with Fluxus. Now, I suppose, I'll > learn. :) I got Fluxus up, and drew a cube---that was awesome, and I'd > be ready to quit there under normal circumstances, but figure I should > do better. The thing that I really got stuck on was audio: how should > my student plug audio into Fluxus so that Cool Stuff can happen? > Having an audio even stream to tap into seems like a good first step > in doing some awesomeness with Fluxus. > > It looks like jackd has been installed, and I can only start it with > the ALSA driver. (Currently, there isn't any support for any other > driver.) I have a few audio players on the system, and they seem to be > able to output to a variety of things; in particular, the GPlayer (I > think that is what it was called) can output to either "jack" or > "alsa", but... I've never played in this space with Linux before, so > I'm not sure what I should do to make the bits plug together. > > Is there a manual page somewhere that I can RTFM, or does the list > mind if I ask a sequence of questions here to get things up and > running? We're running RH9 (I'm pretty sure... need to double-check), Although there isnt a manual with this specific subject inside fluxus, if you search the mailing list archives there is a lot of info on this subject, otherwise if you run into specifics trouble we are here to help. This guide can be elucidative as i was searching for something to point you to: http://adrjork.altervista.org/linuxtricks/JackTutorial_64studio.pdf > and I have no privs on the systems at the moment, nor (I hope) should > I need them. The machines have reasonable 3D support, and audio works, > because I see students listening to music in the labs off of the > machines. (I'm new this academic year, so there are still details of > our systems that I'm discovering.) > > Normally, I'd spend many hours figuring this out myself, but I don't > have those hours. Hence, I'm appealing to the FluxusHiveMind... even > though I couldn't find a page on the wiki for it, I'm sure the hive > mind exists. > > Cheers, > Matt
