[wplug] Linux is going to DJ my wedding

[Robert Coutch]

Oooooops - I forgot.

The soundcard is a Yamaha YMF-724 card I got cheap a couple of years back.
It sounded great.

-Bob


On Monday 07 July 2003 10:43 pm, Robert Coutch wrote:
> Don't laugh but I did this once.
>
> I'm a keyboard ( the C# D E F kind, not the QWERTY kind) player
> and basically carry around a stereo PA system as part of my rig.
>
> I used a rack box with mixer/eq (Rolls) and power amp (QSC) connected to my
> Linux PC ( Athlon 1.4 GHz running SuSE 7.3)
> and a Sony Playstation 2 (DVD anc CD player).
> Two Peavey DJ-1115 cabinets also.
>
> XMMS played the MP3 files and wmcdplay took care of the audio CD's on the
> PC. The playstation audio went to the mixer and the video to the S-Video in
> jack on the PC's TV card.
>
> I also had an RCA DVD/CD player on hand run to the mixer.
>
> I don't have a lot of CD's so I borrowed a bunch and bought a couple of
> those party mix CD's.  99% of all requests came off those CD's. I got
> lucky.
>
> I borrowed some stage lights from the band and got a cheap strobe light
> from Radio Shack.  I had a fog machine in the basement from halloween too.
>
> Linux didn't let me down as it performed flawlessly ( which is more that I
> can say about my keyboard playing ), the crowd was young ( elementary
> school crowd) and was easily impressed by the fog machine and the "What a
> goom" plug-in for XMMS.
>
>
> I say go for it and borrow one of those VGA presentation projectors
> for displaying some of XMMS' plug-ins.
>
> -Bob
>
> On Monday 07 July 2003 09:09 am, Teodorski, Chris wrote:
> > I've decided to set up a Linux media box to act as the DJ for my wedding.
> > I've read several stories of people who have done the DIY DJ with varying
> > degrees of success.   My question for the list is:  What is the best
> > sound card with good Linux support that I can get?  I plan to pipe the
> > music into a PA system, but I want something that will have decent
> > quality, the machine I am going to use has onboard sound and I just don't
> > think it's of the caliber need for this.
> >
> > Also, the machine I have is an AMD k2 266mhz (if memory serves correctly)
> > with 256 megs of RAM (this is the max it will hold).  I plan on using
> > RedHat because I am most comfortable with it.  What would be the best
> > desktop environment to use?  I think that gnome might be too big of a
> > drain on the system.
> >
> > Any assistance is appreciated.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
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