[Preston] ALSA Demo -- Planned and Possible Demo Items

[Dougie Nisbet]

[ Oops - might be two of these appear. I moved from kmail to evolution a few 
weeks ago and evolution doesn't handle different identities for mailling 
lists I don't think. ]

From: 	Dougie Nisbet <dougie at highmoor.co.uk>
To: 	Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group <preston at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: 	Re: [Preston] ALSA Demo -- Planned and Possible Demo Items
Date: 	Tue, 25 May 2004 08:35:55 +0100	
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 22:57, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:
> 'ellow,
> 
> This is about the ALSA demo I will be doing next week.  I thought I
> would send you all a list of the things I have planned to show you and
> then you can say if you'd like to see something else too.
> 
> Here is what I have planned...
> 
> * Setting up the kernel modules (2.4.x)
> * Setting up the user-land utilities.
> * Setting up XMMS to use ALSA.

Out of interest, do you get the problem where XMMS won't restart after
pausing? It seems to affect just a few people. The only reference I
could find on a google was at 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/2/2004/02/4/149351

I'm currently using the arts plugin instead of the alsa one to get
around the problem.

> * Using the Mixer (GUI and console)
> * Using 2 sound cards with it (I can show how to set it up but I can't
> actually demo it because even though my mobo is meant to have a sound
> chip, it doesn't, lol).
> * Playing MIDI in hardware -- which is actually undocumented :-).
> 
> Here are some related things I _could_ show you -- let me know if you'd
> like to know about them...
> 
> * Filter networks for sound synthesis (in GLAME)
> * mpd -- the music player daemon + web interface

mpd - what's that? It sounds interesting. I've just found the webpage
and had a look. It doesn't appear when I do an apt-cache search in
debian which is probably why I haven't come across it before.

Something I've been looking for is a program that'd allow me to print
out musical score. I thought it'd be quite a straightforward application
but the ones I try won't playback - they all want to use midi. I've
tried noteedit and brahms. It's one of the reasons I installed alsa - I
thought it might sort itself out without me having to make the effort to
understand any of it. 

Dougie