Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:06 +0200, fons adriaensen wrote: > Agreed 100%. I just wonder about the availability of the required > chip on mainstream motherboards. My machine (2 years old now) doesn't > have it, as far as I'm able to find out. Does anyone have more > visibility on this ? > I guess

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:06, fons adriaensen wrote: > [ Fernando Lopez-Lezcano ] > > > So, worst case scheduling would seem to me to be around 0.32 msec (ie: I > > want the message to be sent at time t+/-320 usec). > > If you want jitter-free MIDI clock, that is absolutely correct. OTOH, > I oft

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread fons adriaensen
[ Fernando Lopez-Lezcano ] > So, worst case scheduling would seem to me to be around 0.32 msec (ie: I > want the message to be sent at time t+/-320 usec). If you want jitter-free MIDI clock, that is absolutely correct. OTOH, I often wondered why MIDI interfaces are not designed to work in the sa

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:17 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:20:20PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:52 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:42 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > > > > What is driving the kernel-devs to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Real time delay tutorials?

2005-07-13 Thread Iain Duncan
Aha, thanks Lee and Paul, that explains that! Iain. Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:12 -0700, Iain Duncan wrote: In realtime critical applications people prefer RTLinux or the RTAI extension to the kernel for periods and scheduling latencies in the low microseconds range (<30 mi

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Real time delay tutorials?

2005-07-13 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:22:42PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:12 -0700, Iain Duncan wrote: > > > In realtime critical applications people prefer RTLinux or the RTAI > > > extension > > > to the kernel for periods and scheduling latencies in the low > > > microseconds >

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 15:17, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:20:20PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:52 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:42 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > > > > What is driving the kernel-devs to regre

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:20 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > I suppose to make everyone happy this should be runtime configurable. > > Incorporating which would be quite a task :) > > no, to make everyone happy we need the High Res Timer patch. that avoids > the stupidity of a fixed HZ, which is so ea

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Paul Davis
> I suppose to make everyone happy this should be runtime configurable. > Incorporating which would be quite a task :) no, to make everyone happy we need the High Res Timer patch. that avoids the stupidity of a fixed HZ, which is so early '90s that its embarrassing. --p

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:20:20PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:52 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:42 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > > > What is driving the kernel-devs to regress on this issue? > > > > Saving battery on laptops. The only per

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:44:32 -0400 Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I expected something like this. But, I guess my question was more, who > is complaining about HZ=1024? To which I guess the answer would be > everyone who is more concerned about throughput than latency. Though,

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:27, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:31 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:49:11 -0400 > > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Correct, it's not an issue for apps driven by hardware interrupts like > > > > JACK, be

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Real time delay tutorials?

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:12 -0700, Iain Duncan wrote: > > In realtime critical applications people prefer RTLinux or the RTAI > > extension > > to the kernel for periods and scheduling latencies in the low microseconds > > range (<30 microseconds worst case scheduling latency on recent x86 > >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (and on dyne:bolic work better?!)

2005-07-13 Thread Iain Duncan
Me too. It worked great on both my ancient laptop and my desktop, though I did have to modprobe snd-usb-audio to get my usb midi box detected. I've been raving about it to everyone. It also is incredibly easy to customize. jaromil wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:33:45AM -0500, Andres Cabrer

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Real time delay tutorials?

2005-07-13 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:12 -0700, Iain Duncan wrote: > > In realtime critical applications people prefer RTLinux or the RTAI > > extension > > to the kernel for periods and scheduling latencies in the low microseconds > > range (<30 microseconds worst case scheduling latency on recent x86 > >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Real time delay tutorials?

2005-07-13 Thread Iain Duncan
In realtime critical applications people prefer RTLinux or the RTAI extension to the kernel for periods and scheduling latencies in the low microseconds range (<30 microseconds worst case scheduling latency on recent x86 hardware). I've often wondered about that. Why are those sorts of ker

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:52 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:42 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > > What is driving the kernel-devs to regress on this issue? > > > Saving battery on laptops. The only performance numbers anyone posted > > > indicated HZ=250 sped up a kern

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:42 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > What is driving the kernel-devs to regress on this issue? > > Saving battery on laptops. The only performance numbers anyone posted > > indicated HZ=250 sped up a kernel compile on a 16 CPU machine (!) by > > ~5%, and this was a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:01:03PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:49 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:34:07PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 01:03 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > > > Some semieducated blabbering ahead (m

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:31 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:49:11 -0400 > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Correct, it's not an issue for apps driven by hardware interrupts like > > > JACK, because the sound card consumes data at a constant rate. But

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:49 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:34:07PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 01:03 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > > Some semieducated blabbering ahead (might be all wrong): > > > I think i once read that interrupt handlin

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:31:21PM +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:49:11 -0400 > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Correct, it's not an issue for apps driven by hardware interrupts like > > > JACK, because the sound card consumes data at a constant rate.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Real time delay tutorials?

2005-07-13 Thread Ralf Beck
Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2005 21:53 schrieb Iain Duncan: > That sounds like it would be useful for more than just audio, ie > robotics, any embedded linux apps, etc. > In realtime critical applications people prefer RTLinux or the RTAI extension to the kernel for periods and scheduling latencies in th

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:49:11 -0400 Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Correct, it's not an issue for apps driven by hardware interrupts like > > JACK, because the sound card consumes data at a constant rate. But for > > MIDI or video where you have to periodically push data to t

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61b

2005-07-13 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:34:07PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 01:03 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > Some semieducated blabbering ahead (might be all wrong): > > I think i once read that interrupt handling "short circuits" the linux > > scheduler (in the sense that not only a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] maximum ports -problem

2005-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09:24:29 -0400, Brett McCoy wrote: > Steve Harris wrote: > > >>Even if I am not using them all? I calculate I had maybe 12 - 15 > >>actually allocated ( will try to verify this tonight when I am back in > >>the studio ) > > > >They still take resources, even if theres no

Re: [linux-audio-dev] maximum ports -problem

2005-07-13 Thread Brett McCoy
Steve Harris wrote: Even if I am not using them all? I calculate I had maybe 12 - 15 actually allocated ( will try to verify this tonight when I am back in the studio ) They still take resources, even if theres nothing connected to them. As Paul said, run jack_lsp to see how many there are.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] maximum ports -problem

2005-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09:09:28 -0400, Brett McCoy wrote: > Steve Harris wrote: > > >back of the envelope maths: > > > >soundcard ports are always assigned, > >even if theres nothing connected: 22 > >hydrogen, 32*2: 64 > >ardour uses something

Re: [linux-audio-dev] maximum ports -problem

2005-07-13 Thread Brett McCoy
Steve Harris wrote: back of the envelope maths: soundcard ports are always assigned, even if theres nothing connected: 22 hydrogen, 32*2: 64 ardour uses something like 4 per mono track, plus 2 more?34

Re: [linux-audio-dev] maximum ports -problem

2005-07-13 Thread Brett McCoy
Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 08:39 -0400, Brett McCoy wrote: and then suddenly Ardour kept telling me that I was out of jack ports and needed to reset jack. What is this? I had used maybe 4 stereo ports total. My sound card has 12 in/10 out (but I was wasn't using them), and Hyd

Re: [linux-audio-dev] maximum ports -problem

2005-07-13 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:39:53 -0400, Brett McCoy wrote: > Last night I was setting up a session in Ardour. I had three tracks for > keyboard parts that were from imported audio files, so they did not have > any input ports set. I wanted to bring in drum parts from Hydrogen, and > started se

Re: [linux-audio-dev] maximum ports -problem

2005-07-13 Thread Paul Davis
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 08:39 -0400, Brett McCoy wrote: > and then suddenly Ardour kept telling me that I was out of jack ports > and needed to reset jack. What is this? I had used maybe 4 stereo > ports total. My sound card has 12 in/10 out (but I was wasn't using > them), and Hydrogen present

[linux-audio-dev] maximum ports -problem

2005-07-13 Thread Brett McCoy
Last night I was setting up a session in Ardour. I had three tracks for keyboard parts that were from imported audio files, so they did not have any input ports set. I wanted to bring in drum parts from Hydrogen, and started setting up tracks to correspond with the tracks I was using in Hydro

[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (and on dyne:bolic work better?!)

2005-07-13 Thread jaromil
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:33:45AM -0500, Andres Cabrera wrote: > I've also tried dynebolic (www.dynebolic.org) and on the two systems > I've tried works considerably better than agnula live and the suse live > audio cd. > > Cheers, > Andres wow :)