From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Jan 27 11:04:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14022 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:04:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA14011 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:04:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id SAA02127; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:32:34 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199801271732.SAA02127@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Audio recording anyone? To: dutchman@tccn.cs.kun.nl (Kees Jan Koster) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:32:33 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <34CE2C98.41C67EA6@tccn.cs.kun.nl> from "Kees Jan Koster" at Jan 27, 98 06:50:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I want to record sound with my PC. I was curious if other FreeBSD users > are doing the same thing under FreeBSD. some are. > If you are, what software are you using? cat :) or assorted programs in /usr/ports/audio, or "pcmio" or similar ones which set the speed&resolution&channels. > A more difficult question: can I do multitracking? Do I need special > soundcards for this, or can I plug two (three? four?) soundblaster cards > into my machine. I have heard there are multitrack cards but have no idea on freebsd support for them. Depending on the driver and the card you can install multiple audio cards on the same machine, but beware: - some cheap PnP cards have the same PnP id, so there can only be one of each kind on the same machine; - you might run out of DMA and interrupts very soon; - there might be drifts in the clock speeds of different cards so you might end up with recordings of different length for which you'd need to compensate the drift. cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________