On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < [email protected]> wrote:
> You have many ways by which you can process audio and video. > An elegant and beautiful audio framework I'd add is the Jack audio framework: http://jackaudio.org/ Jack audio folks brought "real time" to Linux. Jack has plenty of super high quality software that fit the Unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it right", which surprisingly is also the philosophy of real audio hardware. You can have stand alone effects processors, standalone drum machines, standalone midi sequencers, arpegiators, synthesizers, recorders, etc., all being co-ordinated by the jack audio framework. You can mix, master and even have remote computers act as parts of these standalone components using netJack (works over UDP and in an experiment I found it pretty ok to use remote MIDI apps (which is the whole point because this way you can consolidate all the CPU power into a centralized place where all the cpu intensive audio processing can be carried out)). Jack simply kicks ass and is ought to be the dream come true for DIY audio studio'ers. Distributions such as AVLinux (semi proprietary), Studio64, Ubuntu Studio are customised and packed with a lot of jack audio software (and even then, I end up occasionally finding a better jack gem out there on the interwebz somewhere, like qmidiarp). These distros typically come with jack support by default or atleast make setting up jack easier. One of the main hinderances of using jack with regular desktop apps (like firefox / flash) is that regular apps are compiled against, typically, pulseaudio framework. In contrast, the main step in getting jack to work is to stop pulseaudio first. So this becomes a pain to play alongside your favourite youtube video or even have a working browser while you are making music. With jack you can not only do that but also rewire the inputs/outputs to send the "Audio-Out" of firefox to some effects processor or a recorder (or if you've got multiple sound outputs, then to different output ports). AVLinux folks have taken the pain and care to recompile general desktop apps like firefox/flash against jack so that you can have a seamless audio experience. It almost feels like a mac without all the jazzy graphics ;) So, there, jack audio: http://jackaudio.org/ and I highly recommend AVLinux. Cheers, -Suraj -- Career Gear - Industry Driven Talent Factory http://careergear.in/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
