On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 10:17 +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 15:40 +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> >
> >
> >>i'm writing this email, because i'm interested in what plans the
> >>different linux audio developers have for the year 2005 Any new
> >>revolutionary applications planned? Major changes to some of the
> >>existing apps? So let us know. What are your roadmaps for 2005? What are
> >>you guys up to?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I plan to get my patch adding multichannel support to the emu10k1 ALSA
> >driver merged, then work on a real hwdep mixer app (probably by
> >extending ld10k1/qlo10k1). As many of you know I'm a big fan of these
> >cards, they are extremely cheap and (with good driver support) perfect
> >for an entry level DAW, like a portastudio or something. Anyone who has
> >used the kX drivers on Windows knows how much potential this device has,
> >and unfortunately the Linux support is still a joke compared to the kX
> >driver can do. But, that is all about to change, as the two crucial
> >features (the DSP patch loader and "kX ASIO", aka the full duplex
> >multichannel/low latency PCM device) now exist on Linux.
> >
>
> oh my god, are you serious? i was using the kx drivers when i was on
> windows, and i gotta say they were the best thing since sliced bread!!!
> it turned my soundblaster live platinum into a BEAST of a music machine
> (well, compared to what it was) ...
>
Heh, I still use them, all the time. I have to admit when it's time to
make music I still use Windows. This is actually what got me interested
in Linux audio, as soon as I realized how far ahead the kX project was,
I quit my day job (was sick of it anyway) to work on this project. Now
it's 6 months later, I'm a lot poorer, but it works dammit!
> when i switched to linux, one of my biggest dissapointments was the
> dismal support for the emu10k1 .... especially lack of multi-channel -
> by multi-channel support, do you mean that you are able to use the rear
> output channel independently of the front channel (at the moment my
> front and rear channels are basically inextricably linked)?
Yup. If you have the livedrive you can use all those jacks as
independent ports. My Audigy2 ZS has something like 6 channels of
analog in and 8 out, enough to record a band. And there's nothing like
zero latency hardware DSP...
I have to admit I still use Windows with the kX drivers when it's time
to make music. It will be a great day when I can do the same with
Linux.
> that is
> exactly what i've been trying to get happening for a while now, which i
> need for dj mixing work (so's i can have an independent "preview"
> channel for cueing music) ....
>
> the dsp configuration in kx audio was the killer ... are you saying
> there is support NOW for use of this kind of feature in linux ...where
> can i get the patch?
>
I actually got a lot more responses than I was expecting. I have been
posting about this to the alsa lists for months, and no one but me and
Peter Zubaj seemed to care. I think they didn't take me seriously at
first, even when I posted the kX stuff, Linux users are conditioned to
think these cards are junk. Windows people know better ;-)
I will post the patch somethime this weekend. It would be great to have
more people test it before I submit it to alsa-devel.
In the meantime while I have been focused on multichannel Peter Zubaj
has been working on the DSP part. Check it out:
Screenshot of the DSP manager:
http://ld10k1.sourceforge.net/screenshots/qlo10k1_20040706.png
> this sounds very exciting to me!
Thanks, hope it works for you.
Lee
Received on Sat Jan 8 08:15:06 2005
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