Cool project :) On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:29:44PM +0200, Robert Jonsson wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a suitable Linux solution for this parrot? I was > > thinking about ecasound combined with a pitch shift plugin, if one > > exists. If the solution could run entirely in RAM (CD booting, > > perhaps?) then that would solve the problem of hard disk reliability. > > Any of the shelf distro would probably suffice. For reliability I would > propose using a Flash disk. fast, small, clean, reliable, inexpensive. > There are heaps of small, cheap motherboards these days that have built in > sound so that won't be a problem. Flash disks wear out much quicker than HD's do. I would go with a normal IDE HD and set it to spin down under power management. > It would probably be easiest to do a small c program which utilized some > ladspa plugins for the pitchshift, probably noise gate and, possibly the > delay. Yup, you could knock up something with ecasound and some sort of scripting language (I think there are perl and python bindings). Alternativly pd would be a good coice, or writing a jack client in C would be pretty easy if you can find a volunteer. - Steve
