Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [CUD] Csound & ALSA support: a call for assistance

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [CUD] Csound & ALSA support: a call for assistance
From: Dave Phillips (dlphilp_AT_bright.net)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 03:31:13 EEST


On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Paul Winkler wrote:

> Hi Dave!

Hey, Paul !

[re: Csound reverb/nreverb]

> What sort of artifacts? Dropouts and glitches? Or just poor-quality
> reverb? I do think the reverb opcode isn't very nice-sounding at
> all; lots of distinct echoes, not very smooth. reverb2 is a bit
> better but still IMHO bad.

Just poor audio, not very clean.

> I've tried a lot of csound reverb orc/sco's; most sound pretty bad,
> frankly. Two notable exceptions are:
>
> Hans Mikelson's reverb.orc (but NOT the gardverb.orc) from
> http://www.werewolf.net/~hljmm/csound/ - sounds very good but runs
> VERY slow (nowhere near realtime on my Celeron 333);
>
> and Sean Costello's waveguide reverb at:
> http://media.dr.rhbnc.ac.uk/csound/list/msg03983.html
> which sounds quite nice and does run realtime on my system.

I'll check 'em out...

> Freeverb is fast and sounds *very* nice. I wish somebody would
> figure out how to hack freeverb into a csound opcode. I tried but
> had to face the fact that I had no idea what I was doing. I'm amazed
> that I got an opcode that actually runs - but it didn't sound
> anything like the ladspa freeverb!
> If anyone wants to give it a try, you can see my crude attempts at
> http://www.slinkp.com/pw_linux/code.html

It's beyond my <*cough*> skills. Stefan Nietschke built it into the latest
version of RTSynth, maybe he can help ?

Best regards,

== Dave Phillips

        http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/index.html
        http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/


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