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[oloopo]

Hi everybody.

I'm searching for a simple + SMALL wave-editor just to let it play some waves in loop permanently, yep that's all...
- o.k.: no, I`m not totally nerd ;) here is what it is all about:
I need this tool for looping sounds under puppy-linux 4.2.1. on an old IBM ThinkPad (PIII 700, 256MB RAM) so my e-drum-machine doesn't have to manage them anymore.
"Players" cannot loop without breaks/pausing, and the editors I found cannot loop.
For my normal editings I have Audacity and Ardour on the bigger machine (+ Ubuntu).
Under Puppy Audacity's audiodevice cannot be configured, not OSS, nor ALSO nor JACK and its lame with my hardware.
I tried MIXXX - that looked good - but shots down every once-a-while...
I found mhwaveedit - great, that`s it and would be enough ... but it doesn't l o o p ....!

Any idea ? THANKS!
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[splicer]

I recommend using a tracker like SunVox or protrekkr. Both are lightweight and run very well for me under Lucid Puppy 5.0.1 with 1GHz CPU and 1Gb RAM, and maybe for you on your system with 4.2.1. Both install by just extracting to a directory. Neither is Jack-friendly (yet), but maybe that's not an issue for you. I can't remember what needs to be installed.. alsa, surely, and maybe libSDL. Nothing that searching the Puppy forums or package manager won't find. Try starting them from the command line and see what they complain about.

If you aren't familiar with trackers and tracking, the UI may seem a little intimidating at first. Don't let it discourage you! Patience brings great rewards :) For your purposes, it would be fairly simple to load a beat loop to an instrument and place a note at the beginning of the measure. Internal sample editors let you perform simple functions (trim, fade, normalize, etc.) and adjust the loop points to your liking. A more advanced usage would consist of figuring out the sample offset values for each beat in a loop and triggering the loop to start on that beat with pattern commands. Also, you can set up several different patterns in one session and jump between them manually or sequence them how you like. Beyond this, there are built in synths, filters, etc., for a full low-tech workstation.

On another note, there is a "Puppy Studio" available now. Runs okay for me, but it's a little bloated ..for Puppy ;) I haven't used it much, yet. My regular Puppy runs what I need for now and is set up the way I like, but you might find it useful.

Finally, I recommend looking at Tiny Core Linux. The base system with X is about 10mb. You have to add things if you want to do more than open a terminal on your desktop, but the package installation is simple (as long as a package exists). For SunVox and protrekkr I needed to install alsa, etc. and I was up and running. My Tiny Core install is around 25mb total. I noticed that these trackers were using 40-50% CPU under Puppy, while under Tiny Core the same apps were using 20-30% CPU. YMMV.

Good luck and happy tracking! :)

P.S. Resurrected post, I know, but maybe someone will find this useful.