| jbrantly_ | anyone know if its plausible to use ubuntu studio in a live sound environment (for instance, to serve as an EQ between an analog mixer and the amps)? | 00:06 |
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| persia | jbrantly_, It is plausible, but be aware that you'll be restricted on how much mixing you can do based on the processing capacity of the hardware. | 00:09 |
| persia | I don't think anyone has good metrics for that, and a lot of it has to do with the quality of the drivers for your audio interface (and making sure your interface can handle your mixing needs) | 00:09 |
| jbrantly_ | not really interested in mixing. Looking at it more for signal processing (like an EQ) | 00:10 |
| jbrantly_ | but yea, I would be concerned about the A/D conversion and latency | 00:11 |
| persia | For recent hardware, with a good interface, latency can be fairly low (<10ms). | 00:14 |
| persia | But for that kind of use, you *really* want to make sure of the AD/DA quality, and overspec your hardware by a bit, just in case. | 00:14 |
| jbrantly_ | right. So top-notch A/D interface, but it sounds like it is possible. Cool. | 00:15 |
| persia | I suspect that you'd end up with similar costs to new dedicated solutions, or maybe even +5-10%, although you get to use the computer for other things when you aren't using it as an EQ :) | 00:15 |
| jbrantly_ | yea, I was just thinking it might be kind of versatile. For instance, buying an interface might be cheaper than buying a graphic EQ and a parametric EQ and provide more options | 00:16 |
| persia | Might be cheaper than both, and also can act as an effects box. | 00:17 |
| jbrantly_ | any thoughts on good AD/DA interfaces? I havent looked in years | 00:18 |
| persia | Just be aware that you're going to be fairly limited on how many things you can do simultaneously without pushing your latency. Some of the dedicated hardware has stuff like 8-way DSP engines. | 00:18 |
| persia | I'd recommend asking on #opensourcemusicians : there's just more folk there. I've been very happy with a focusrite saffire, but the "best" is really about what you do, and not about any specific device. | 00:19 |
| persia | Try to find some other folk who do work live: they can probably tell you which ones are *fastest*, which is what you need, even if that means some loss of quality (although you shouldn't accept too much quality loss, etc.) | 00:20 |
| jbrantly_ | right. Thanks a ton for your help :) | 00:20 |
| persia | No problem. If it works for you, please tell everyone :) | 00:20 |
| loxs | is ubuntustudio suitable for deploying as a home multimedia center (as opposed to multimedia production, as ubuntustudio markets itself) | 09:08 |
| loxs | I am aiming at high quality sound | 09:08 |
| loxs | and want to do it with the least effort | 09:08 |
| persia | I generally recommend Mythbuntu for that sort of application, although there were discussions at this last UDS about making some additional media center flavours. | 09:10 |
| loxs | UDS? | 09:11 |
| persia | Ubuntu Developer Summit: the event that (kinda) plans each release. Happened last week in Orlando. | 09:12 |
| loxs | what about things like dyne:bolyc and geexbox? | 09:12 |
| persia | I suspect those are as good as the folk who make them can make them. I tend to be biased towards Ubuntu, but haven't spent any time at all making comparisons, so can't really say which is preferred. | 09:13 |
| loxs | I am too biased towards using a big established distro for this stuff | 09:14 |
| loxs | but I like the idea of running it off a usb stick | 09:14 |
| persia | You can do that with Ubuntu. | 09:14 |
| loxs | isnt mythbuntu aiming at TV? | 09:15 |
| persia | There's a tool called usb-creator that specifically creates a USB disk to either use as a bootable running environment or to install something. I don't know of anyone specifically using it for a media center, but I don't imagine significant issues as long as you have enough storage. | 09:16 |
| persia | You'll likely get a more detailed description of the mythbuntu target from #ubuntu-mythtv, but I believe so. I think it also does audio playback though. | 09:17 |
| loxs | thanks, I'll go check that channel too | 09:17 |
| loxs | I will probably use something like pulseaudio to stream sound from my other machines via wireless. I have no idea (yet) if this will bring havoc to the audio quality | 09:18 |
| loxs | so in fact I need something small to boot off the usb stick and just sit there and play sounds | 09:18 |
| rvchila | good evening! | 20:29 |
| grumbl69 | hello | 20:55 |
| grumbl69 | got a question about ffado | 20:56 |
| grumbl69 | still nothing ? | 21:01 |
| persia | Folk should just ask questions and wait a bit :( | 21:05 |
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