Lee Revell wrote: >On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 18:44, Martin Rocamora wrote: > > >>Hi. I'm tring to use a GNU/Linux machine as a real-time effects box (live - >>reverb, eq). I wonder if I could use real-time LADSPA plug-ins but with no X >>server (to improve latency). I mean something like JACK Rack but from a shell >>terminal. >> >> >> > >If you use a low latency kernel then running X should not make a >difference. > >Lee > > > > hi I have been using Agnula DeMuDi Linux for this, it's a tweaked Debian with low latencey kernal and a has the jack audio server which really helps, the software I have been using is Tapiir http://www.iua.upf.es/~mdeboer/projects/tapiir/ which is an amazing delay line which can used for some really spacey effects Creox http://zyzstar.kosoru.com/?creox a multi fx unit JackEQ http://jackeq.sourceforge.net/ a mixer EQ unit I am really amazed at what I am getting out of my creaky old PIII-450 !! using SUSE9.1 pro my machine really struggled, but I am using fluxbox as my window manager which is really lean compared to KDE which I was using before. there is a DeMuDi live cd based on knoppix too so you check it out without installing a new OS here's a list of software on the live CD http://www.agnula.org/Members/damien/List/view here's where to down load the live CD http://download.agnula.org/1.1/1.1.1/demudi-live-cd_1.1.1.iso hope thats of some help Graham