I have finally managed to get some use out of my E-mu card! For months this was lying dormant because it was installed on an old 1ghz 512MB ram Windows box which was retired in favour of a 2.5ghz Quad Core with 4GB Ram.
When I moved to the new PC, I decided to go with Ubuntu as main (and only) operating system. I wanted to see just how far I could get with free software. I also love a challenge…
Finally I have documented my struggles with E-mu 1820 and linux.
I have spent quite some time recently playing with audio on my ubuntu desktop.
Last time I tried Audio on linux I found it to be a sorely disappointing affair. That was some 6 to 12 months ago.
On my old Windows box I had an E-mu 1820, but when I bought it I didn’t know that Creative didn’t like to help out by open sourcing their drivers. (How many people have bought M-Audio cards now, knowing that they can get Open Source drivers for it!) On my old Windows box I thought that card was going to stay, until week before last…
I had had some recent successes with getting jack and pulseaudio playing nicely. I had had a play with Ardour and loved it. So I bit the bullet and gave it a go.
I now have glorious multi channel playback and recording via my E-mu audiodock, so I have taken the opportunity to throw together a few recordings of my poetry. The first couple were straight recordings with a bit of reverberation added for ambience.
The most recent is a full on four and a half minutes of sequenced sound and samples 🙂
If you are viewing this on the site you’ll see the above links as little embedded mp3 players, courtesy of the very smart wpaudio plugin.
We keep meaning to go the Wolverhampton Hell’s Angel’s Club House Fireworks. Every year we say we must go, it’s only a five minute walk away, but there always seem to be a reason why we don’t. This year it was someone writing an essay…
Anyway, the view from the bedroom window was still fairly spectacular for the high mortars, so I couldn’t resist a few firework shots. Here is one to wet your appetite.
[flickr size=”medium”]http://www.flickr.com/photos/informationtakesover/4090592734/[/flickr]
I had a letter from npower the other day. I quote:
“To improve the accuracy of your account, we’ve changed the date when your next bill or statement will be issued.
Your next bill or statement will be produced on or around 08 February 2010 and will cover a shorter or longer period than normal.”
Now that’s accurate!
How to make a time machine to bring people back from the past, and to find out what’s in the future.
Thought I would share how I spent my Sunday afternoon 🙂
Build some PAR38 cans using coffee tins – More DIY How To Projects
Just completed several more tweaks to the site, and that includes some customisation of my blog-in-blog plugin. I released version 0.8 today, but then added even more tags for parts of the posts date so I could recreate the post theme for this site.
Some ideas being kicked around here…