[Linuxsampler-devel] A little headway

[Mark K. <mar...@co...>]

Or three steps forward, one big step back...

This evening I did get a bit done:

1) I created the white noise wave file that Steve was talking about in
an earlier email. I also tried out his sox/octave commands, got some
interesting plots and sent those to him. If they look OK then I'll build
the gig file and get the data he was looking for. (Or figure out why
they don't look good...)

2) I wanted to load up my GSt library on LS, but it turned out my GSt
machine no longer has a 1394 adapter installed, meaning I couldn't copy
the library. Bummer... 

3) Not to be deterred, since the GSt machine is octal boot, I booted
into PlanetCCRMA, downloaded, modified and built LS on that platform.
(Dell P3-500 with 768MB) Everything built fine, so I tried loading up
the Bardstown Bosendorfer. This gig is over 1.6GB and is a multi-layer
file. It loaded fine. No error messages, although I did get a few
strange messages about ' caching silence ', whatever that means.

However, I wanted to play the gig file but quickly figured out that I
haven't used MIDI on this machine (in Linux) since I removed the
MidiSport, and I've never used the AP2496 for MIDI under Linux, so I
spent about an hour trying to get that to work but failing.

I then decided to boot into GSt, and, bummer again, found that the MIDI
input on the AP2496, or something else in the studio, is no longer
working. I spent about 30 minutes trying to figure out what died. I was
moving cables tonight working with the 1394 drives, so maybe somethign
came loose somewhere and I haven't found it, but at this point, with no
MIDI on that box I've lost GSt, Reaktor Session and LS all in one fell
swoop.

Anyway, until I find the problem I may be offline a bit. Hopefully it
won't take more than a bit of time tomorrow evening.

Cheers,
Mark