A few days ago I told you about the first steps into using an eeepc as a real-time audio tool. jack runs up fine. I chose the internal audio card with the combination 48kHz, 256frames, 4buffers (which gives a latency of 21.3msec) and running on its own it doesn’t cough up any xrun.
I couldn’t get sooperlooper working yet. Sooperlooper works (see solution)! freqtweak works (A nice little thing!), too. Ardour works very nice, too. Sometimes the screen is a bit small for the whole window, but I was using ardour a bit today and it wasn’t too much of a hassle. Audacity is buggy (converting to mono + playing results in a segmentation fault).
I will try and find out about sooperlooper and audacity. Other programs and how an external audio card connects (I hope my older posts will tell me what to do), a midi interface and all that will come up soon…
Just a quick comment to say that I’m happy to have found your blog. I was having trouble finding people interested in audio-for-linux, and for DJ mixing in particular. Now I just need some time to read through your blog.
Cheers!
Hi Paulus. Yeah, you’re right, many people seem to not consider linux as adequate for music-making. I did some DJ mixing with linux but not much, so there isn’t any post about it in the blog yet. But maybe it’ll come soon.
cheers
I previously used Mixx, which was able to run the main/headphone output independently through the front/side channels of my sound card respectively.
Now I’m trialling UltraMixer (Java) which only support OSS, which shows only a single device (or channel) in the preferences. Boo. Back to Mixx’s primitive interface…
Also nothing I’ve found allows live “tapping-in” of BPMs like Tracktor on windows, although Mixx allows you do this in the track-properties dialog.
A bit off topic but thought you maybe interested in my findings…
I’m also now looking for an eee pc or similar netbook.