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6000 - Tosa / Zaurus Musicians

« on: April 06, 2005, 06:48:22 am »

One thing the Zaurus lacks is a midi device. and arm devices lack a FPU, so audio manipulations are more difficult. Most audio and video apps out there use floating point.
I created audio recording software for the PDAudio cf card. The Zaurus could not even handle the vu meters. It barely handles 2/44100 sound. The Archos PMA400 has decent audio/video hardware, but lacks ALSA.
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ah, so that's the answer.   [a href=\"https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9518]https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9518[/url]
Sad to hear, the Z would be interesting as a portable recording platform (w/ cf card + ADC + preamp)

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Accessories / Core-sounds Pda Audio

« on: December 21, 2004, 11:23:42 pm »

I was thinking the same thing about speed, i don't know the technology enough to know if it's a cf bus speed thing or what.  

and Fromwithin, yeah, you're totally right about the interface being only the digital in. I was just thinking that was the first part of the battle, and I could grub up a DA converter, which is the second half of the battle.

Which actually gives me another idea: maybe use the usb host capabilites of the new zs to feed and usb audio interface into it? this might be a horrible idea, I know, since they suck power like mad, and drivers are probably non-existent. Any thoughts? I want this to work!

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Accessories / Core-sounds Pda Audio

« on: December 21, 2004, 03:49:05 am »

I'm looking to replace my minidisc recorder with a hard-drive based option, and, well, there aren't many. I'd prefer not to drop the cash on a newer md model that does USB transfer (I'm primarily on macs anyway, and i don't think the sony software supports macs), so I was looking into other options. I need more than mono recording, something smaller than a laptop, and would prefer hardware that does more than dedicated audio recording, so the zaurii with audio card might be a great option. I've checked out core-sounds pda-audio CF card, and sent email to Len, the guy who runs coresounds, and his response was that zauruses are too slow (which I'm not sure what that exactly means).

I'm leery of his response, thinking he may have not tested the most recent of the z's. The recent z processor is slower XScale PXA270 (416mhz, vs 624 MHz in the HPs), but is that enough of a difference for it not to work? anyone out there actually tried the card in a recent z ? or is there more to it, like bus speed or something?

thanks!

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Software / Pda-audio On Zaurii?

« on: December 21, 2004, 03:44:42 am »

moved to accessories -- sorry about that!