> From: optimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If the kernel can replace dedicated DSPs, then we won't need a > sound card,and perhaps digital synthesis can really take off > in Linux. The question is: can the kernel do it?
The kernel just has to ensure that the CPU can juggle multiple sound generation threads without them stepping on one another (i.e. sound glitches). The real question is how much DSP power a dual 4Ghz Pentum 4 workstation can give you. I'm not as familiar with music/DSP algorithms as I am with graphics ones so I'd like to hear more stuff on this area. But what I can see is that soft synths are very much part of the studio scene nowadays. The sound I get with soft synths on my relatively wimpy Duron 1.2Ghz's on-board AC'97 is at least on par with (and probably better than) late 80s-early 90s music hardware! > kernel. A poor, financially-strapped audio enthusiast like me > can afford to experiment with open source alternative versions > of the same expensive apps like Cakewalk Rewire� and VST�. Windoze XP already offers a stable and very polished environment for such kind of work. There is still waaaay more activity in the Windows/Mac world than in Linux. But the beauty of the Linux side of things that you won't get with these more commercially oriented environments are that you can have a hand in the nitty gritty low level details if that's your inclination - i.e. an invaluable educational experience. And of course no matter how primitive the Linux environment is compared to the commercial ones, what you get for free today is probably equivalent to, say, a P500K studio setup of the mid-80s. > Using Linux for digital audio recording and manipulation is also > good news. > Would you recommend using XFS for storing large .wav files with > sizes beyond 2GB? Dunno... I'm curious too. Hope to get more feedback on this. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
