Volker Kuhlmann is on permanent record as saying: :> To tie all this together, a sound demonstration would make a great :> presentation at one of the LUG meetings. The average person would, : :YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
Wow. It's been a while since I've seen enthusiasm like that. :When?? Technically, this is still at the "if" stage. Like I mentioned, my laptop has been less reliable than my desktop was (dual PII-400 was nice for audio work...) If 2.4.20 does fix my problem with enabling dma transfers, and if I'm able to get my system latency low enough, I could consider doing a demo. In any case, I'm going gear hunting this weekend. If all goes well, I should be getting my home studio set up shortly and be back at work in this area. :> IMHO, rather see services and applications than back end stuff. : :That's what we need if we want to see Linux being useful for the :desktop. Anyone can run a server. So far, Linux is not up to cooledit :and '95 in ease of use and what can be done. If someone can demo that :the same things can indeed be done (even if more difficult for now), :I'd *love* to see it. I'm not sure if I could demo anything that would be equivalent to cooledit. Honestly, I've only spent on the order of minutes editing audio in windows. I'd probably try to do a demo with one of the trackers and a few handfuls of samples, another demo with live recording and editing of sounds, and probably one of the multitrack recorders. It would, for the most part, be scratching the surface of what's out there, though. There are many little applications out there that do little tricks. There's no way to cover them all. To answer the when question, assuming I could pull it off, my best guess for a _nearest_ possible time is a few months. I've got a lot of details that need to be worked out before I could even start to prepare for a demo. Greg --- -
