Mark Knecht <markknecht <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Are there enough people using Gentoo for realtime audio that it
> would warrent some sorrt of specialized kernel project? I expect so.
> Is there interest? How do we start one?
YES, I'm extremely interested in RT for audio on Gentoo. I have an
EE buddy that is building Audio Productions systems (speakers and custom
amplifiers, for a 50,000 Watt outdoor audio system. He's manually controlling
everything now, and using bits of a windows software which is expensive
and problematic. He'd love the ability to use Linux (gentoo). I've promised
to set up a Gentoo system for him to house the pci audio cards
and controls his gear/audio streams.
I've got a 5,000 watt system, I'm building up to DJ weddings and
parites.I waiting Doc to finish my Custom built Subwoofers that go
down to 14 Hz, and Subwoofer amps that have a very clean low_pass
filter to drive those subs!
He needs about 64 channels of analog(audio IO) in the form of high end
audio cards with multiple input/output channels. If you like,
I can send pictures of the speakers stacks (quite impressive), and
some AMPS. Recording and the ability to play anything from mp3 to wav
files is necessary. Deterministic(RT) control would be great.
Putting the instruments, from a Band (live performance), on MIDI, or whatever
would be an added bonus.
Since he does a lot of outdoor DJ parties, we had fouund an excellent
audio package called 'mixxx' which is in portage:
media-sound/mixxx
Latest version available: 1.4.2
He is a savant Rf chip designer; hi_power, hi_quality audio hardware
is his hobby. I'd love to get his hardware running and controlled
via Gentoo.
James
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