>Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 08:26:24 -0500 (EST)
>From: Michael Stutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Paul Winkler wrote:
>
>> At this point, not having any midi devices, I find linux lets me do
some
>> WILD things with sounds (Cecilia, csound, ceres, MiXViews, DAP, mix)
...
>
>Sounds cool... got any examples?
Not much... ask me again later. Mostly I just try to get things to work
:)
>
>> I also really want some sort of virtual drum-machine device not
unlike
>> Rebirth, only not bound to the interface limitations of any
particular
>> piece of hardware, and I haven't found anything that fits the bill (I
>> can't seem to compile the latest Xdrum, but the earlier versions
didn't
>> impress me...)
>
>Another thing that would be cool is a virtual effects box, where you
could
>plug an instrument into the sound card and pick you flange, chorus,
>distortion...
This could *probably* be put together in Cecilia. It might run slow, and
it requires you to learn csound syntax to put together each effect, but
the big advantage would be 1) not starting from scratch with C code, and
2) easy to modify the interface (within certain bounds). Realtime input
and output IS possible in Csound, though I for one have never tried it.
As they say, "there may be issues."
Or you could try a Tcl/Tk interface to RTcmix, though I don't know about
realtime input there...
>
>> Heh. Take another look at the header of that post...
>
>Oh man... do the TB folks give tech support for Linux?
Well, when I was shopping, their tech support answered my email in
reasonably timely fashion. But the guy who answered (same guy each time)
didn't seem to have much personal experience with Linux, he just
forwarded some posts on how to get CS423x cards working via a warm boot
from DOS (which I think is still necessary for one of the synth
features, I forget what). Oh yeah, and he confirmed that the S/PDIF
output is not at all supported in linux. (Not like I have anything to
plug it into).
regards,
PW
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