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Turn-Key Linux Audio

Posted by michael on from the so-simple-even-drummers-can-understand-it dept.

gmaestro writes "The Turn-Key Linux Audio project at the Eastman Computer Music Center has released it's first instant linux audio workstation package. Simply download onto your Mandrake workstation, untar and type # ./install.sh."

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  1. Now we can go for REAL multi-media by TheWanderingHermit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's great that we have something like that for music and audio.

    Now if we could only get a system like that for video, with firewire included.

    (I know Demudi claims to be multimedia, but it's only mono-media -- audio/music only.)

    I understand Cinelerra is great, but I'm not a programmer and I can't get it to work on Mandrake or Redhat. If Linux could create an easy to setup video workstation, I know a lot of video people (like me) would jump on it.

  2. ...slightly related: text to speech, pitch adjust by jki · · Score: 5, Interesting
    As I do not know anything about audio or audio tools available for Linux (or any other operating system), I thought this would be a good chance to ask:

    1) What would you use to convert (english) sentences to speech samples (in real time, if possible perfomance-wise).
    2) What to use to alter the pitch of the samples in "real-time".
    3) merget these samples together with a base beat/rythm (basic jazz, techno, whatever)
    4) ..and to stream combinations of these samples with a modified pitch per sample to the client.

    Talking about a set of command-line tools or a easy to use API.

  3. 4 speaker drivers? by Foresto · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is great and all, but does it come with drivers that will let me play my Dolby Digital (AC3) DVDs and AVI files, in full surround, using my 4 channel soundblaster live? So far, I haven't found any linux drivers that support all four separate channels on this very popular sound card.

  4. Re:drivers by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Interesting
    You hit the nail on the head when you said "until the OEMs start writing their own linux drivers..."

    After all, it's their board, and if they want increased market share, either write their own drivers, or include subcomponents that have decent driver support.

    Mind you, we bought a couple of cheapie boxes last month, you know the kind, all sorts of integrated shit, and ... surprise ... all the stuff works OK under linux. Mind you, we put in GeForce video cards, so it's not a fair comparison (and we took the video out of one box after anyway - I just telnet into it as needed).

    The only solution I see is to ask the sales staff if the board works ok under linux, and, after they tell you "yes", if it doesn't, return it. If they say "I don't know." - offer to test it for them, in-store (did that once - it was fun watching the store staff going - wow! that's linux? I thought it couldn't run Windows programs! Then I had to explain that Gnome, KDE, et al aren't Windows).