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From: Rui Maciel on 21 Apr 2010 07:02 Grant Edwards wrote: >> Do you actually believe that that is a reasonable suggestion? > > Yes. You could have done it in less time that you spent posting in > this thread. And you would have learned something. You can't possibly be serious. You cannot really believe that suggesting someone to "buy a couple of connectors and a few resistors and build one" is a remotely reasonable suggestion to give to someone who asks for an audio input device supported on linux. Rui Maciel
From: The Natural Philosopher on 21 Apr 2010 07:52 Rui Maciel wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> Do you actually believe that that is a reasonable suggestion? >> Yes. You could have done it in less time that you spent posting in >> this thread. And you would have learned something. > > You can't possibly be serious. You cannot really believe that suggesting someone to "buy a > couple of connectors and a few resistors and build one" is a remotely reasonable suggestion to > give to someone who asks for an audio input device supported on linux. > > > Rui Maciel Why not? If it were WINDOWS, I would agree with you..
From: Aragorn on 21 Apr 2010 08:01 On Tuesday 20 April 2010 23:50 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody identifying as unruh wrote... > On 2010-04-20, Aragorn <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid> wrote: >> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 19:36 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody >> identifying as unruh wrote... >> >>> On 2010-04-20, Harald Meyer <meyersharald(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> POD x3 = Small battery powered DSP device that models various amps. >>> >>> I certainly have no idea what this is, even now. >> >> It's a floor effects device, which, as Harald says, contains >> digitally sampled amplifier models, but you can also use it for plain >> electric guitar (or bass) effects, like chorus, flanging, phasing, >> reverb, delay, pitch shift, overdrive/distortion, and the likes.[1] >> >> Think of it as a digitalized pre-amp with built-in effects, in which >> the pre-amp can be any of a whole series of vary famous amplifiers, >> e.g. Marshall, Mesa Boogie, Roland, Vox AC30, et al. You can hook a >> POD straight up to a mixer or P.A. and sound like you're playing with >> (for instance) a Marshall JCM 900 full stack[1] behind you. The >> digital amplifier models basically mimick all the nuances and >> dynamics of the selected amplifier type. > > But if it is internally digital why in the world are you changing it > back to analog and then back to digital within the soundcard. The POD itself is not intended for use with a computer. It's intended to be connected to a DI box or a P.A. Yet, what the OP wants is something that does what a POD does - i.e. use digitally emulated amplifiers to color the sound - but that interfaces with the computer instead. The POD alone cannot do this, since it was never designed for that purpose. However, connecting the output of a POD - and I don't own one or have never used one, so I'm not sure on whether it has a "line out" connector, but I presume that it does - to a device which converts the analog sound to digital and inputs it into a computer should be possible. > You want it to output digital. In which case he does not want a line > input either. Well, you can go either way, of course. You can use a "line in" on a soundcard to input a signal that has already been brought to line level beforehand and then use software to convert it into a digital format so you can store and edit it on the computer, *or* you can have it converted from analog to digital *outside* of the computer and then fed to the computer as a digital signal via USB. > He wants a digital input ( possibly just a usb line). Weirder > and weirder. Well, the one thing I can think of which he could use - I don't use this kind of stuff myself, as at the moment, I am keeping my computers and my guitars in seperate and independent realities :p - is the Line 6 Guitar Port. http://line6.com/guitarport/ Alas, the software for it is proprietary and thus, as expected, only works on either Microsoft Windows or Apple OS X. I don not know to what extent the device itself could be used as a standalone D/A converter to the computer, but I reckon that should be possible. The Guitar Port is capable of handling the impedance of a guitar signal and sends the digitalized output to the computer via USB. Since the Guitar Port relies on software to do the amp modeling, perhaps the OP should consider using a POD (or another device with amplifier simulation) in between the guitar and the Guitar Port, so that the actual sound shaping happens outside of the computer and so that the role of the software on the computer can be reduced to simple recording and "post-production"-style editing via copy/paste. The Boss GT-10 which I own does have a USB port of itself, but given that there is a requirement for a freely downloadable but of course proprietary driver - for Windows or OS X, of course - I haven't really looked into that. I do not know whether the USB port on the GT-10 could be used to send a digitalized audio feed to the computer. As far as I know (at this stage), it is there so as to, via the proprietary driver, allow the device to store its data as backup on a computer or a MIDI-capable device - it also has MIDI connectors. http://www.bossus.com/gear/productdetails.php?ProductId=941&ParentId=248 Like I said, I have to date always kept my guitars and my computers as two totally separate aspects of my life, two independent realities. And I'm trying very hard to keep it like that. :p On a sidenote, I do believe that there is at least one Debian-based distribution geared specifically for used as an audio workstation, so perhaps this distribution includes some drivers and software which would be able to work with interfaces like the Guitar Port. -- *Aragorn* (registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
From: Rui Maciel on 21 Apr 2010 08:24 Rui Maciel wrote: > And it's a shame because I can actually get my hands on a Behringer > FCA202. ....which wouldn't do me much good as it doesn't work on linux. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-445823.html Rui Maciel
From: Harald Meyer on 21 Apr 2010 08:54
Rui Maciel wrote: > Rui Maciel wrote: > >> And it's a shame because I can actually get my hands on a Behringer >> FCA202. > > ...which wouldn't do me much good as it doesn't work on linux. > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-445823.html The Firewire FCA202, the USB UCA202 ist told to work fine. |