Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] time stretching and compression under Linux ?
From: David Burrows (david_AT_emp.net.au)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 03:17:42 EET
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
*snip*
> first of all, a "recording studio" can't run on SB cards - they're
> crap. second, if you want 4 channels of input, you should buy a 4+
> channel card. there comes a point where the amount of programming time
> spent solving all that hassles related to this problem "costs" (by
> some metric) far more than appropriate h/w.
>
> you should be counting programmer time as worth at least US$30/hr even
> if you don't actually pay them. solving this problem reliably,
> especially *outside* of ALSA or OSS, will take a reasonable programmer
> at least 4 hours to get right in a robust fashion. there, i just
> "gave" you an extra $120 to spend on a decent soundcard :)
>
> --p
One minor factor perhaps overlooked, is that extra $120 would go towards
only one sound card, whereas syncing cheap sh*t sound blasters would
benefit a significant number of unfortunate people who can't afford real
sound hardware? =)
Of course this just opens me up to: "Well why don't you do it then?".
Maybe I would, seeming as I just have to give my SB Live back and I have a
heap of Sound Blasters laying around. My guess is, its not easy.
Hows this for an idea. Removing the frequency generator from the "slave"
soundcards, and some how rigging them up to the "master" sound card so
they're all driven from the same clock. You know, MacGuyver style. ;)
Cheers,
David.
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