On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Mike wrote:
Speaking for myself, please stay on-list. I'm watching with rapt attention as details unfold 8-)
Mike
Here you go.. Hi all, Blaise, I will indeed write you off list too, but am never one to disappoint an audience, smiles. Especially if they are reading with wrapped attention. As promised, some of the command line tools I have discovered so far. For music notation there are a couple, ABC Notation is included in Debian, which I understand is a really simple tool. there are some more complete doors though, Like muscript, for example :-) http://www.pjb.com.au/muscript/index.html with its associated midi2muscript utility: http://www.pjb.com.au/midi/midi2muscript.html Which lets you shift a midi file into notation..or so I understand. Then there are the tools for monitoring and audio work, For Audio recording and processing by way of example, there is Joel's Nama: https://freeshell.de/~bolangi/nama/ Joel is a presence on both the Debian users discussion list, and the Linux audio list via yahoo groups. Very nice guy, with rather a few samples of his programs in creative use on his site. I am told that ecasound is needful for his program, http://www.eca.cx/ecasound I am equally told though that the package already exists in Linux distributions like Debian, but have no first hand knowledge of this being true. For MIDI there is Midish: http://www.midish.org I am told manuals are actually on the site <hurrah!> but I dare say how you can incorporate the program is up to you. I was directed to some helpful commands however. https://freeshell.de/~silvain/software/fs_midish_extra-1.0.tar.bz I am told that audio processing can be improved with good LADSPA and LV2 plugins. Again either in the distros themselves, or search worthy via Google. I do not know directly if this helps with the latency kernel factor though? For very good quality reverbs checkout Fons Adriaensen's jconvolver: http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/downloads/index.html I am told it will tell you, which packages to download or again Perhaps already in the distribution, though I'm not sure about jconvolver. As for your Jack question, the answer is no. In fact I am not even sure what that program does, but I am not as of yet using Linux directly on any computer of my own. I am feeling that you are building a very strong case for my ssh telnet idea with the kennel situation as it relates to pro audio. I care far more about the machine's ability to let me make music at the professional level then I do about my using speech on the computer itself. Since a server should, or can be a part of a properly configured Linux installation though, I believe I can still do my work even if the kernel does not support speech for me. More off list and thanks for that invitation! Hope others find these tools of use. Harmoniously, Kare