Re: [linux-audio-user] offline processing

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] offline processing
From: Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd-lad_AT_mega-nerd.com)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 04:33:19 EET


On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:28:59 -0500
Chris Pickett <chris.pickett_AT_mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been wondering: what is it like processing audio offline under
> Linux? Is this something that is widely supported? I did a bunch of
> google searches using the term "offline" but couldn't find anything
> really useful.
>
> My computer is fairly weak (800 MHz laptop, no DSP card). Currently, if
> I want to process a file (apply effects, change the sample rate, apply
> dithering, mix it with another file,

Programs like SoX and sndfile-src (a command line sample rate converter
which is distributed with libsamplerate) do this.

> I'm also curious if there's general support to process MIDI offline as
> well, but that's not so critical to me, since the computations are far
> less intense.

Thats the default mode of TiMidity as well I believe.

Erik (500Mhz laptop, 450Mhz desktop)

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