On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 18:22 -0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > On Tue, September 28, 2010 7:33 am, Arnold Krille wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 September 2010 16:21:48 Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure that this is the reasoning behind going with the filter > >> option. The resources are available even on a eeepc as Ken has reported > >> so > >> it is not really a big deal as jamin is intended for use post pro. > > > > I don't actually remember Ken saying that he runs jamin on his eeepc. > > True, he > > is running an awful lot of software on there, but I doubt that he is > > adding > > 10ms artificial delay from jamin to his live-setup... > > > > Good point. Maybe Ken could clarify if he used his eeepc for the mastering > stage on his album? > > > >> If you want to have it running during production then you should > >> probably > >> just get a very powerful machine or invest the time to correct the > >> issues > >> as near as possible to source. > > > > Yes, a 1.8GHz turion64 running jack (3x1028@48kHz) and an ardour session > > with > > two stereo tracks, 4 plugins (SC4-compressor and an eq for each stereo) is > > to > > weak to also run jamin. > > > > Please get a grip! I am not using jamin on an under-spec machine. And I am > > not > > mis-using it during mixing/recording of a >48-channels session either. I > > even > > stopped dreaming about using jamin for live-foh usage (because of the > > delay > > introduced by the filter). > > Well, it was never designed as a foh tool. It is and always has been a > stereo channel post prod tool. > > When it was developed I was running a 1 ghz celeron. It ran on there > without issues. I don't see why it would have problems on any recent (past > 8 years) notebook/netbook or PC. > > > > All I am saying is that jamin takes up a good amount of resources for its > > processing. [*] > > This is by design. When the 2 very experienced DSP engineers Steve Harris > and Jack O'Quin and the very experienced mastering engineer Ron Parker > spec'd the backend they decided that this was the most appropriate method > given the available resources at the time. > > The idea was to provide as much smoothing of the bands as possible to > create a very "clean" sound as per traditional mastering technique. > > Now if you want to use a tool that is designed explicitly with that goal > in mind then you should definitely be considering jamin as an option. > > > > > And I combined Fons' argument that the filter used is not a good > > implementation > > Which has not been corroborated and in fact has been out right dismissed > by my contact here. > > > and probably not needed anyway with my idea of a simpler but equally > > useful tool. > > I think it would be worth your time to build a little mock up with pd or > jack rack and listen to the difference in the audio quality. > > I have very good reason to trust my sources that Fons is not correct when > he says the current implementation is defective. > > The point about using a stand alone parametric eq plugin as you suggested > is that it would definitely add artifacts to the end result which is why > the decision was made to use the linear filter. > > > > [*] It would be uber-cool if one could switch off that analyzer-view to > > save processing cycles. > > That is a good point. I know you have the skills to make that happen. Do > you have the time to craft a patch? > Since the analyzer view is only redrawn by default 10 times per second there really isn't much overhead to save. Take a look at draw_EQ_spectrum_curve in hdeq.c. You'll see that all it's really doing is drawing a predefined pixmap, converting 1023 levels to dB, and then drawing 1023 line segments. This is hardly a drag on any system. Be that as it may, you can adjust the frequency of the update in Edit->Preferences to be any value from 10 times per second to 0 times per second. In other words, the ability to switch off the analyzer view is already there. Jan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user