Monday 18 August 2003 22:29 skrev Steve Harris: > 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. They may, if you write to them, otherwise I don't think this is true. In this case there is no reason to write to it. /Robert > 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
