Re: Csound for Zaurus

The irda port is actually the best bet, or one could port one of the client 
server apps that can stream midi across networks, the wifi card I have is 
fast enoungh to enable me to recieve a midi stream from the web.

On Tuesday 29 July 2003 2:26 am, ben wrote:
> I haven't tried any MIDI stuff on the Zaurus.  The 5500 does connect to
> a PC via USB but it can't be a USB host by itself, you'd need something
> like this compact flash adaptor
> (www.rexpccard.co.jp/english/products/subpages/cfu1u/html) to do that.
> And that doesn't have a Linux driver yet ...
>
> Or maybe you could do something with the IrDA port, that just appears as
> a serial port to the Z.  Hmm.
>
> In any case, I think you'd struggle to do much in real time besides
> playing sine waves on a 5500 anyway.  All this has made me think how
> much fun it would be if you could get a handheld like the Zaurus or Ipaq
> that was optimised for DSP and floating point stuff instead of being an
> overgrown diary.  The flexibility of Linux, the portability of a
> handheld, & all the fun of a touchscreen [1], we just need the
> processing oomph to back it up. Maybe in a couple of years. [2]
>
> Ben
>
> [1] I should get round to releasing my Zaurus Stylophone at some point.
> [2] Or someone look into it for a uni project!
>
> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:07, John Littler wrote:
> > On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 11:53  PM, Iain Duncan wrote:
> >
> >
> > <excerpt><fixed>Yeah I know, that's what I was talking about! My
> > question was about hardware
> >
> > midi for the Zaurus. Anyone know about that? The binaries page does not
> >
> > mention whether real time midi i/o was achieved.
> >
> >
> > Iain
> >
> > </fixed></excerpt>
> >
> > I'm not sure what the total possibilities are. I have an SL5500 with
> > CF wifi
> >
> > and it has an SD card as well. There might be possibilities with the CF
> >
> > slot as there are a whole bunch of different cards available. The
> > cradle
> >
> > has a USB connection to the host computer but you could bypass the
> > cradle
> >
> > by getting the pin assignments from the developer site and making a
> > cable.
> >
> > On that bottom edge of the case there's also a separate battery charge
> >
> > female jack to charge without the cradle. Battery life on the 5500
> > isn't all
> >
> > that wonderful so you'd probably need it.
> >
> >
> > I don't see why there would be a problem with MIDI i/o (I haven't
> > tried it),
> >
> > particularly if the zaurus was booted into console mode. There do seem
> >
> > to be some latency issues with the standard GUI running. I'm not sure
> > if
> >
> > running the debian kernel improves that situation.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > http://mstation.org
>
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