From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 13 04:32:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA15443 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 04:32:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA15434 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 04:32:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@visint.co.uk) Received: from dylan.visint.co.uk (dylan.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.180]) by bagpuss.visint.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA19286; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:31:01 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:30:43 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome To: Luigi Rizzo cc: Douglas Carmichael , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for digital recording w/PCI multitrack in/out cards? In-Reply-To: <199710090503.GAA12182@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > What multitrack recording software exists for FreeBSD? > > it's a user-space thing, once we have solved the device problem as > depicted above, any software available on the net for unix machines > will do. i know of none at the moment but I think I have seen something > on the net. check the oss page or some linux doc on audio. I was going to comment on this earlier in response to the question of why there is no good audio software for FreeBSD (which was bought up in the recent Wintel outsels UNIX discussion). Currently I'm working on a project (albeit at home) to do digital sound effects with FreeBSD, and later multitracking. I've got some little X apps I've written to give oscilloscope like readings of the sound inputs etc., (two channel only), but it's hell trying to write this stuff, and that's the problem.. There's no documentation! I've got the voxware faq, which seems to document voxware 0.001, (or is there a newer FAQ? I couldn't find it), I'm using GUSPNP15 with my AWE64 and, well there's comments in the source. (although people who want to mention that I should "UTSL" might be missing something!) Anyway this all gives me the impression that until there's some stability or just some available documentation (for a standard sound API) then it's going to be really tricky to be writing any decent multitracker type software. N.B. This isn't a dig at the multimedia folks, because in the last year they seem to have really got stuff moving nicely. I'm just saying that it's not easy developing audio stuff at the moment - which might be why I've taken up XLib instead. (Now that says it all!) Steve. -- Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/