I'm trying to help a friend of mine set up a multi out audio player on a 
linux box for an installation that will loop 4 stereo files continuously 
for several hours. I have been trying to help him set up Csound over 
internet chat for the last hour and we can't seem to get Csound to 
recognise alsa as a real time audio module. He basically downloaded the 
linux installer but when he ran it it didn't put things where they were 
supposed to go so I just got him to cp and ln all the relative files to 
their correct location. Csound will run and does not give out about 
OPCODEDIR, we set this to point to /Desktop/Csound5/linux_f32/opcodes, 
but whenever he tried alsa as an rt option it said unknown audio module. 
By the way there was no plugins directory with the installer, only an 
opcodes one. Anyway I'm not too interested in spending the duration of 
tomorrow morning sending text back and forth just to do this simple task 
so does anyone know of a simple multitrack audio player? The simpler the 
better, command line is fine. Ardour is a bit complicated for such a 
simple task and Audacity doesn't support more than 2 channel output. Cheers,

Rory.

Good point, I believe he is running ubuntu studio so I'm sure ardour is 
good to go. Might be his best bet, at least I know it's capable of doing 
what he needs. Cheers,

Rory.


aaron@akjmusic.com wrote:
> Rory,
> 
> I'm a linuxer, and it's been a while since I've used it, but I think 
> 'ecasound' has such capabilities.
> 
> If all else fails, you might go the Ardour route anyway--let's face it, 
> no 'easy set up' program exist on other platforms to do such a task 
> (that *I* know of, anyway)...if Logic Audio and Pro Tools would do it, 
> and those are 'easy', than so is Ardour.
> 
> -AKJ
> 
> Quoting Rory Walsh :
> 
>> I'm trying to help a friend of mine set up a multi out audio player on
>> a linux box for an installation that will loop 4 stereo files
>> continuously for several hours. I have been trying to help him set up
>> Csound over internet chat for the last hour and we can't seem to get
>> Csound to recognise alsa as a real time audio module. He basically
>> downloaded the linux installer but when he ran it it didn't put things
>> where they were supposed to go so I just got him to cp and ln all the
>> relative files to their correct location. Csound will run and does not
>> give out about OPCODEDIR, we set this to point to
>> /Desktop/Csound5/linux_f32/opcodes, but whenever he tried alsa as an rt
>> option it said unknown audio module. By the way there was no plugins
>> directory with the installer, only an opcodes one. Anyway I'm not too
>> interested in spending the duration of tomorrow morning sending text
>> back and forth just to do this simple task so does anyone know of a
>> simple multitrack audio player? The simpler the better, command line is
>> fine. Ardour is a bit complicated for such a simple task and Audacity
>> doesn't support more than 2 channel output. Cheers,
>>
>> Rory.
>>
>>
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