Whoa... Anybody ever seen this?

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Hey guys, I was browsing around the forum and saw linux was mentioned a couple of times. I came across this site. http://www.opensound.com/ Looks good. It was suprising to see how many sound cards were supported. Like the M-Audio Delta 1010. Looks like a Linux sequencer just might be around the corner. :) It gives you links to a bunch of music related apps for linux also.
 
Most UNIX workstations, thus far, have only provided support for digital audio sampling and playback (business audio). OSS brings the world of MIDI and electronic music to the workstation environment. With the advent of streaming audio, speech recognition/generation, computer telephony, Java and other multimedia technologies, applications on UNIX can now provide the same audio capabilities as those found on Windows NT, OS/2, Windows 95 and the Macintosh operating systems. OSS also provides synchronized audio capabilities required for desktop video and animation playback.

But then it says:

8bit unsigned and u-law
16bit signed PCM data

Nice try, but you won't see me dloading a copy of Slackware or Redhat anytime soon...
 
I know what 8 bit and 16 bit resolution is, but what is unsigned and u-law, and signed mean? Sorry, I don't know this. I'm just fine with 16 bit resolution. That's format cd's are made with.
 
Okay, I've been searching and searching on this cause I'm a bit excitied. :D I've found a mulitracker app that looks and sound like it blows away Ntrack. It's called Ardour. It has 24 bit/32 bit floating point resolution, support for 96kHz sample rate, and a lot more. All of it is listed at the features page. Here's the link:

http://ardour.sourceforge.net

This is a must look! :cool:
 
Yeah, but no DX or VST processing, which isn't possible on linux until a) somebody makes a linux host and b) somebody ports a plugin to linux. There are LADSPA plugins, but not many.

I'm jazzed about the prospects of linux too, but I'm not going to boot into different operating systems for different tasks...it's hard enough just working with the half dozen applications I rely on!

I'm not dissing anything, I am certainly a linux fan, and a fan of opensource in general!

Slackmaster 2000
 
soundprizm said:
I know what 8 bit and 16 bit resolution is, but what is unsigned and u-law, and signed mean? Sorry, I don't know this. I'm just fine with 16 bit resolution. That's format cd's are made with.
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Unsigned and signed refer to how the binary code represents numbers. Signed means you are actually only working with 7 or 15 bits of information and the first bit tells you whether the number is positive or negative:

Unsigned:

10000001 = 129

Signed

10000001 = -1
 
Linux will come into its own soon enough in music, once developers see a market for it.

If Windows keeps getting more and more bloated, it may happen. According to one of the sites I was researching, Linux is capable of lower latency than Windows or Mac.

We'll see. It's still in it's infancy.
 
Now that I think about it, since I'm getting a new box this winter, I may through an Audiophile in my current AMD 700Mhz for the hell of it, install Audour and Red Hat, just to play around, and see how it works.

I can't give up my beloved Acid though. =)
 
Polaris20 said:
Linux will come into its own soon enough in music, once developers see a market for it.

If Windows keeps getting more and more bloated, it may happen. According to one of the sites I was researching, Linux is capable of lower latency than Windows or Mac.

We'll see. It's still in it's infancy.
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while it may be "capable" of lower latency, it currently cannot get lower latency cause its kernel will not allow it. I have seen modified kernels, but have also heard that these can be unstable.

one thing Linux needs to do is update its X window environment... it is way too slow... just yesterday I decided to switch to Linux for my main OS for a change, and the X environment was just way way too slow (compared to XP anyways...), so I was back to XP after about 3 hours of Linux...
 
Polaris20 said:
Now that I think about it, since I'm getting a new box this winter, I may through an Audiophile in my current AMD 700Mhz for the hell of it, install Audour and Red Hat, just to play around, and see how it works.
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hey I have often thought of doing this... I've been keeping an eye on Audour for a little while now and it seems to be coming along nicely... maybe when it gets out of the beta stages I'll have a 2nd box by then to play around with it... it needs a skin make-over though :D
 
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