Besides, if you manage to run Steinberg Nuendo with Wine directly (mine broke:-( ), it’s much, much faster, so do that instead. Therefore, I reverted to running Windows XP on a VMware virtual machine in the headless slave computer with the sound card, and displaying VMware via VNC (read it, it’s got screenshots!). Update: it turns out Steinberg Nuendo is quite picky in itsĬhoice of audio drivers, and WinESD is just too poor for it. Overengineering… but, oh, well, this post is the bastard child of overengineering, isn’t it? For these applications we created and made everything in-house. This is for instance use by pyrotechnics to have fireworks to run in sync with music. Hooking it up to the stereo in my room, then have PulseAudio broadcast This is the most advanced of the three, and generates and plays timecode along with playing a music track. Next step, getting me a second headless computer with WiFi and I think I’m gonna spend that money on drinks tonight, just Not to mention that I just saved $150 in an USB soundĬard. People who actually wrote the software that powers this Rube GoldbergĬontraption. This would have never happened thanks to the work of many talented My desktop machine, but rather via SSH X Window forwarding on the other The little parrot at the top right corner of the screen is the KTTSD agent in charge of speaking notifications out loud.Serving PulseAudio is gabriela (you can tell that by looking at the Of the desktop machine is karen, while the host name of the machine Terminal window? I put that there so you could see that the host name Machine (conveniently tucked away in a corner). Machine, but it’s actually monitoring the audio output on the slave Window at the right is a set of VU meters included with the PulseAudio You’re witnessing my desktop computer’s KDE desktop.īlack window to the left with Winamp and the Sound properties capplet.I completed the Perfect Setup even more perfectly than the original Perfect Setup. Hook desktop event notifications to Festival so your desktop machine speaks loud and clear through your stereo.Machine directly, displaying it back on your desktop machine. Up the volume control menu entry to run the volume control in the slave Set your desktop machine to use the PulseAudio server in the slave machine as the system-wide audio output.Just for kicks (and everyday music enjoyment):.Set it up to communicate with the slave machine. ![]() ![]() Install WinESD on your XP virtual machine.Network your XP virtual machine into the Ethernet LAN you already have.Install Windows XP on a VMWare virtual machine in your desktop server.Install VMWare on your desktop machine.Activate EsounD compatibility on the PulseAudio server.Configure PulseAudio so it starts as a system-wide daemon.Install PulseAudio on the slave machine.Network your desktop and slave machines via Ethernet.But you own a separate slave machine with two sound cards, hooked up to a stereo.You can’t even put a sound card in your desktop machine, because it’s an 1U blade server. ![]()
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