Zaurus Musicians

[lpotter]

What I *really* would love to see is Rosegarden, MuSE, or seq24 working on the Zaurus. I am thinking though processing power wise you can't do that much, but at least seq24 (MIDI only) should be possible. Unfortunately QTopia doesn't support ALSA as far as I know.

CSound has been compiled for the Zaurus, at least.

I was thinking of building a simple phrase sampler for the Zaurus (e.g. tap on an icon and it plays an assigned wave file; maybe even record too). Probably a good easy project that I can learn Python on, once I finish up with my Windows MP3 stream ripping project.
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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.

[cho1ce]

hi you might want to look at this thread:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...707&#entry69707
theres also some more threads that i started as well as others that are trying to make music on the Z also
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...7902&hl=tracker
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...7712&hl=tracker

theres definetly a want for this type of thing, its just finding someone with the know how to be able to get things to work properly
ive tried quite a few things to get music making on the Z from trying to get atari trackers to make sound to running soundtracker in qtx (i think its called)
ive been successful with getting c64 trackers running on frodo on my Z5500G but the control is really hard to figure out so far

also ATM i am trying out the Qpose emulator to see if i can get one of the music roms to work on it but so far it seems really way too slow

[Mickeyl]

There should still be Roland MPU401 compatible serial MIDI interfaces around which could be used with a Zaurus. The floating point unit is an issue, but not that bad thanks to soft-floatl.

[plaka999]

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)