Audio applications
lazarus / 1-Linux

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laserbeak43 · 2006-12-24 00:21

Hi
I'm very new to lazarus. and have done very little with delphi.
although what i have done has been very nice. i'm interested in making
audio performance and production applications.

i was using the following libraries in windows:
BASS2.3
MIDICOM3
and DIBtools

the problem is, that i really want to migrate to linux. i'm using
opensuse10.0 at the moment, with the JAD kernel from jacklab. for
realtime audio.
will i be able to find audio and midi libraries for object pascal that
i could use on linux?

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felipemdc · 2006-12-24 02:12

I find the Audio Component Suite excelent:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/ACS

There is also OpenAL. There are probably free pascal bindings for it.

There is also esound library, but that only works on linux.

Ok, there are lot´s of audio libraries. Some cross-platforms, others
only work on 1 platform.

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laserbeak43 · 2006-12-24 07:05

oh ok thanks!!
i think it really sucks that i couldnt really find too many straight
forward answers by googling. i hope that changes in the future.

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laserbeak43 · 2006-12-24 07:20

hmm esound looks like it hasnt been touched since 2000. although it's
probably great. i need something up to date i guess to start out with
since im a newb(i think)

OpenAL looks good. if i were using jack to playback sound and this
needed to use the ALSA driver then would i be playing the result back
through JACK?

ACS looks pretty good two. i guess it's a matter of comparing OpenAL
and ACS for now.

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laserbeak43 · 2006-12-24 07:33

hmm OpenAL bears the creative logo  does that mean i need a
soundblaster to use this??

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felipemdc · 2006-12-24 11:50

Quote from: "laserbeak43"OpenAL looks good. if i were using jack to
playback sound and this needed to use the ALSA driver then would i be
playing the result back through JACK?

I have no idea. On openal website there is a link to mailling lists
about it. Better ask there.