On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 12:16:37PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 12/17/05, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Saturday 17 December 2005 01:28, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On 12/16/05, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I presume that your going to > > > > make your tunes available in .ogg format as well in the future. I had to > > > > play them using Mplayer on FC2, and it was using 100% cpu, but didn't > > > > seem to affect the sound quality. Really nice work. Thanks. Nigel. > > > > > > No such problems with my favorite day to day player Aqualung. Check it > > > out if you haven't already. > > > > > > http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Mark > > > > Hi Mark. This is the second time that you've prompted me to try Aqualung. I > > think you must have some vested interest in it (only joking). Thanks for the > > link this time. I think I put it off last time, not wishing to Google and get > > page after page of skindiving equipment or links to Jethro Tull. Anyway I > > DL'd the tar.gz, then read the compile info. Darn! It needs gtk+2.0 , and FC2 > > only has gtk+-1.2.10-29.1.1. Same problem here as with Sineshaper and Om. > > Back to FC2 I looked around in synaptic and saw the xmms mp3 plugin was > > there, tried it and it worked. A bit strange, because the first time I tried > > to install this it would not work. Perhaps libmad was missing at the time. So > > I can play mp3's without frying the cpu with Mplayer, but it would obviously > > be better if more up to date files like gtk+ 2.0 were available for Fedora. > > Perhaps I'll try Aqualung on Debian, as there are Deb packages available for > > it. Not sure which way to go getting it installed on Gentoo (your favorite). > > I run it on all my home Gentoo machines. (3 as of today.) I also run > it on a Planet box running FC2, but that may be an older version. I > could check that. I haven't had many problems with Gentoo. The only > thing there has been using an occasional ~x86 library to make the > Aqualung developers happy. > > > > > BTW. Hows it going with the VSTi's with Savihost and Wine? I've just DL'd > > MrRay73, a Rhodes piano that I saw a link to on the list, and that works ok > > with Savihost, but still terrible latency problems from the Evolution MK-225C > > usb midi keyboard. A bit like playing a pipe organ. Press the key, and then > > sit back and wait for the sound. mr ray works perfectly with fst-1.7. you wont distiguish it from a normal linux synth. > > As of late I'm pretty much out of the music area. We're in the middle > of a bunch of house remodeling things - new windows, floors, redoing a > laundry room and turning it into a computer game room. I haven't > touched savihost in quite awhile unfortunately. > > It did have some latency issues, that's for sure. The main problem > there (I think) is that the Wine Jack driver is pretty much kaput. It > seems that no one wants to maintain it and it doesn't work with the > new versions of Jack. Bummer! I tried to drum up some interest in > supporting it on the Jack developers list but couldn't get a response. > Disappointing as we're all Jack users and having great Jack support in > Wine would be wonderful in so many ways. I'm sure it will happen some > day...just not sure which one. ;-) the correct solution would be to write an asio<->jack gateway. but dont expect that to come from me. > I have not tried the new xfst stuff as it wouldn't build on my AMD64 > machine and it seemed that no xfst developer had an AMD64 machine to > debug the issues. Is that any different now? sorry... i still seem to be the only "active" fst dev. and i only have 32bit here. which will not change as i am happy with my 2 athlonxp 2000+ machines. and with netjack (-> jack clustering) i have pretty much headroom still. > > > > All the best. Nigel. > > > > And to you! > > Cheers, > Mark > -- torben Hohn http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language
