Going off on the artistical tangent... On Sunday 14 February 2010 20:34:19 Ken Restivo wrote: > First of all, FOH techs already laugh at me when I present them with two > male XLR jacks going to TLS dongles into a M-Audio FastTrack and an EEEpc. > At least it saves them from having to go fish out a DI box. They shouldn't laugh. Probably that FastTrack has symmetrical outs, if so, its better to use them directly then going through a DI-Box... > The sound in their voices is always really interesting when they're calling > sound checks: they get through the drumset, guitars, basses, B3 (if > present), and then they say, "OK, um, laptop, I guess?". It's a mixture of > respect, disdain, amusement, and confusion. Would be even more fun when the sound of drumset, basss and B3 where already coming through your laptop:-P > In my occasional nerdy dreaming modes, I thought of hacking up one of those > large LED-matrix scrolling displays to a Linux-based phone, and giving out > the number onstage so the audience can text us while we're playing. Or > face the LED towards the audience so they can blast out random texts to > the whole audience. Hehe, have them send text-messages trough sms or twitter/identica, feed these texts into festival or any other speach synthesis, feed that into autotune or autotalent to make it tune to your melodie and you get singers for free:-) > As for the ARM's/Droids/Pandoras/etc, it looks like technology is not quite > ready yet, but it's getting there. Recompiling audio apps with funky -m > flags is no problem, but rewriting for example LADSPA plugins to add ASM > to use the FPU sounds like more work than it'd be worth. > Still, I'd estimate by next year it'll be all squared away. Part of me thinks that in one or two years these processors in cell-phones will do floating-point as fast as fixed-point/integer calculations... Have fun, Arnold PS: Please don't CC me, I am subscribed...
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