RE: Sound Events and The Enlightened Sound Daemon

["Hubbard, Russ" <hubbardr jntf osd mil>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Yo Ric Dude [SMTP:ericmit@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, May 06, 1998 5:10 PM
> To:	Mark Crichton
> Cc:	@redhat.com@sisko
> Subject:	Re: Sound Events and The Enlightened Sound Daemon
> 
> Mark Crichton wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 6 May 1998, Zach Brown wrote:
> > 
> > > there is a really cool synth style app in the works that does cool
> > > realtime mixing and effects processing and such.. it needs low
> latency,
> > > but can't know whats going to be mixed ahead of time..
> > >
> > 
> > As for what NAS does, I'm not sure about that.  However, esd is still in
> > development...which is good in this case.  I'm currently helping the
> > primary author of esd to get the esd code into the CVS.  This "don't
> even
> > attempt to cache this audio stream" is a pretty decent idea.
> 
> EsounD plays all client streams, only caching whatever data has already
> been sent over the socket.  Also, client streams don't block each other,
> so if your client misses a beat (so to speak =), no other clients should 
> be affected.
> 
> > Also, Alan Cox also brought up a decent point that a fast lossless
> > compression added to esd would be nice for those who want to pump 44100
> Hz
> > 16-bit stereo audio down the old pipe... ;)
> 
> Even lossy compression may be ok depending on what sound is played. 
> Anyone 
> else read Adaptive Delta Modulation in last month's Dr Dobb's and feel
> like 
> giving it a whack? =P  It would just be a new type (like stream or
> sample) 
> of data as far as the daemon is concerned.
> 
> > As for my personal preference.  I like esd because it sounds better.
> When
> > I played with NAS, the sound just broke up.  With esd, it's smoother,
> but
> > it seems to add a nasal hiss to the final mixed output, but that, I
> think,
> > is easily remedied.
> 
> Nasal hiss, eh?  I'll have to double check.  As far as NAS is concerned,
> it 
> may also be possible at this point to add NAS protocol handling as
> well.  
> I, too, have been unable to get reliable performance out of NAS under
> Linux.
> I've been informed that some source patching fixes it, but it also
> concerns me 
> that the *canonical* sources at ftp.x.org aren't ready for Linux, as is,
> and
> no patch was available after a night of web searching.
> 
> > And I'd really like to know what this synth app is...sounds interesting.
> > ;)
> > 
> > Take care,
> > Mark Crichton
> 
> -- ebm
> 
> 
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