Thanks Nick,
This is exactly what we needed.
Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, October 6, 2005 5:41 pm, Richard Tindall said:
[ a whole lot of stuff about linux audio, redhat. planet ccrma etc]
Sorry to do the major snip Rik,
It's most often appropriate, vs repetition.
just to summarise:
Ant has Redhat, with Planet CCRMA audiospecialist rpm's installed over the
top. He has had update and config problems.
IMHO RH is too old to start with.
Agreed.
Planet CCRMA is also compiled for
Redhat's successors, Fedora Core 1, 2 & 3. According to the website it is
being updated for Fedora 4.
Good news.
If Ant is in a hurry and absolutely wants to use CCRMA, I suggest he backs
up his data and installs FC3, then the CCRMA stuff. If he is more patient
he could wait for CCRMA to catch up to FC4 and start from there.
It's a blank, dedicated recording box: P2-400 iirc. The BIOS only reads
2GB of the 4GB hard drive, & he wants to put a 10GB drive in there. Will
that BIOS be updateable?
I hate to push the barrow all the time, and you cynics can take a yawn and
hit the kill button now, but I have found gentoo reasonably good for audio
stuff. The idea of CCRMA is, of course, to compile some specialist apps
and the kernel with specific sound oriented options for low latency, jack
audio and so forth. This specialist compilation is what gentoo excels at.
Great!
I'll have a sniff round Gentoo & see what I can upspeed on.
However whatever approach is taken, getting professional audio going on
linux is a real chore. Many pros give up and go back to windows or a mac.
That's why I'm recommending vanilla midi throughput & recording, on
anynix, as a starting point.
Beyond that, his synth isn't present in Rosegarden's config list range,
so I'd be searching for the best s/w capable of matching that unit, &
working back from there.
You also mentioned 128 MB of RAM, I assume thats what Ant has. It's likely
the whole machine is underpowered. If he wants pro audio its likely he
needs more ram, and a well supported sound card.
I agree, but he has the good system in the office for Win/work, & the
sound studio in the garage.
Ex-lease 1GHz+ stuff is _really_ cheap now - I'd go that way, with a
workable modem & extra RAM thrown in, from the Computer Broker. Ant's
Ensoniq soundcard seems pretty good tho.
Please also note that there are a set of very good linux audio articles on
www.linuxjournal.com, by Dave Phillips. Well worth a read!
Cool. Ant will be reading these posts, to inform his choices. He cannot
be with us until 9pm next Tuesday, which won't leave us enough time to
do much that night. There's a little lugging involved to get the system
to us too, so further service calls is an equal option.
The best call might be for Ant to (go shopping, if possible, and) attend
the next Gentoofest.
When is it Rob?
And thanks for your tips too Steve.
Cheers & hth, Rik
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