Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 15:47:19 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, Douglas Carmichael <dcarmich@Mcs.Net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for digital recording w/PCI multitrack in/out cards? Message-ID: <199710152247.PAA05897@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:30:43 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.971013121902.187W-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk>
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The guspnp driver api or linux sound driver 3.5 is well documented in the oss web page. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Stephen Roome : > 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/ > >
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