Hi Chris, On Wednesday 26 May 2004 14.35, Chris Share wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Linux, although I've been involved with music and computers > for many years, having worked professionally as a musician and sound > engineer, as well as having written some MIDI/audio apps for Mac and PC. Cool! > I'm currently starting PhD research in music technology at the Sonic > Arts Research Centre in Belfast. > > I thought that now would be as good a time as any to venture into the > world of Linux audio/MIDI, and have just installed SUSE 9.0. > > I'm interested in using Ardour for HD recording, as well as other > synthesis programs such as Csound, jMax and SuperCollider. Sounds great. <shameless plug> Be sure to check out MusE too, we are getting ready for a new release, lots of improvements. (http://lmuse.sourceforge.net) </> > > My first question is related to setting up my system for low-latency? > > I've found Paul Winkler's "Low-Latency 2.4.x with ALSA HOWTO" and was > wondering whether this was the most up-to-date guide to creating a > low-latency system, especially with respect to SUSE 9.0. Mmm, mostly I guess. I'm however not fluent in "SuSE" so I could not say for sure. Asking here about specific issues is also a good idea :-). > > My second question concerns audio hardware. Here at the SARC I have > access to a Digi 002r audio/MIDI interface which uses Firewire. I can't > find any information about this interface and was wondering if it was > possible to use it with Linux. Firewire interests me alot. Sadly it is not yet a reality in Linux. mLan, the standard for audio over Firewire is high on many peoples wishlist and I think there was supposed to be a meeting with Yamaha one of these days? Though I don't know if the Digi002r is compatible with mLan, not all hardware is...like always. /Robert > > Cheers, > > Chris Share -- http://spamatica.se/music/
