Re: [LAD] "El-Cheapo" software-only equivalent

On 07/21/2010 10:24 AM, rom wrote:
> Hi all, i'm new to this list.
> I'd like to ask some advice about a small multitrack recorder program i
> wrote, and have been using for some time. Basically, what it does is to:
> - simultaneously capture sound from several consumer-grade soundcards.
> - use libsamplerate to stretch the audio streams, re-syncing them to the
> one chosen as "master". The stretch ratio is continuously re-calculated
> to make the overall frame count of the stretched stream match the
> overall frame count of the master.
> - write the "corrected" streams plus the "master" stream to parallel
> .wav files using libsndfile.
>
> The purpose is the same as the quite famous "El-Cheapo Howto" (
> http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org/toots/el-cheapo ), just with no
> soldering involved :-)
>
> Of course, i know the solution is far from perfect, but i use it to
> record some friends of mine who play in a blues/punk band, and the
> result is not that bad.
>
> Now, the question is: do you think this piece of code can be of any
> interest for someone out there?
> Do you think i should i publish it on an open source repository ? Or
> maybe there's already some other software i'm not aware of, that does
> the same thing?
>
>

Absolutely a very useful addition to the toolset. Please do release it.

> thanks for your patience, please excuse my bad english.
>
> bye
> alberto
>
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