This is Steinway_IMIS soundfont, version 2.2.
ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/sf2/Steinway_IMIS2.2
This version fixes the issue with loops. I hope this is the good one
and there are no more remaining major bugs.
Marcos is a little busy right now, so he asked me to make this fix. He
is thinking to make other improvements, so expect more updates soon.
Dear list,
I recently bought a LinnStrument from Roger Linn Design:
http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html
It is a great isomorphic midi-controller, and as such it is immediately
recognized on Linux.
The distinguishing feature of the LinnStrument is that it senses 3
degrees of freedom on each note: x-direction, y direction and
z-direction (pressure). The x-direction is mapped to pitch-bend, and
y-direction to CC74.
A cool feature is the "slide", where the pitch-bend is used to slide
between all notes in a row.
To allow individual pitch and CC74 values for each note, it sends each
note on a separate midi-channel ("MPE"):
http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/implementing-mpe.html
Bitwig has added support for this, and there is 20 presets in version
1.3.11, where this is used (tag: linnstrument). The LinnStrument
controller is not recognized automatically on Linux in version 1.3.11,
but it can be configured manually, and then it works fine. Note that
both midi-in and midi-out has to be configured, if not there is no
sound! It should look like this: https://ibin.co/2msBJVgpKtf9.png
Now I would like to also use it with the free Linux synths.
Here's what I have been able to make work this far.
Synthv1:
PME works reasonably well: I can play polyphonic in MPE mode, but it
tends to miss the "note off"s.
I can get the slide to work, by setting
<param index="36" name="DEF1_PITCHBEND">2</param>
<param index="78" name="DEF2_PITCHBEND">2</param>
is a preset.
Zynaddsubfx:
I can not get MPE to work.
Sending only on one channel, and setting PWheelB.Rng to 2400 cents, I
cant get the sliding to work, but only when playing with one finger.
If I enable MPE on the LinnStrument there is only an occasional sound,
when it happens to send on the channel, that Zyn is listening on.
I'll love to hear if other LinnStrument users have been able to do more
with any of the free synths on Linux.
All the best,
Thomas
This is an unedited improv where I was trying out a couple of my latest voice
patches. I used two keyboards one set to transmit on MIDI channel 1
and the other on channel 2. The pads (LH) are 'Ghost Ensemble' and the lead
(RH) is 'Angel Harp'.
Some of the pauses are intentional others are "Heck! Where do I go now." :)
http://www.kara-moon.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7471.0;attac…
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
Hi,
today we have published the video of another single of John Option: Any.
Of course the song is published under the terms of the Creative Commons
License (CC-BY-SA) and it's completely produced with free software:
Ardour, Hydrogen, Jack, Qsynth, CALF, and many other
great free audio software that we used under Debian GNU/Linux.
Here you can listen the single and see the video (made with kdenlive):
http://youtu.be/lXbUKeo-PFY
As for the previous songs we have done a little more in the direction of
freedom and we published in our website[1] the single recording tracks
and the complete Ardour session. All this material is published under
the terms of the Creative Commons license Attribution Share alike so
that anyone can use our tracks to produce a remix of our song or even a
new song that have to be published under the same license.
You can find all about our project here: http://johnoption.org
I hope that you like our choice of freedom. If you feel like I'd love
to read your feedback, because the encouragement of the people who
listen to us and appreciate the philosophy of our project is the only
fuel for us to continue. And if you like to be updated about our next
release, please subscribe to our YouTube channel or any other social
network you like (see link to our profiles on our website[1]).
Best regards,
Max-B
1. http://johnoption.org
--
IM: massimo(a)jabber.fsfe.org - GnuPG Public Key-Id: 0x5D168FC1
I'm happy to report that as of this morning, 100-Watt KNYO-FM in Fort Bragg California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNYO-LP) is running on Linux, Linux Audio and Free Software.
(Well, then again, I can't speak for their website; I didn't set that up, and it looks like an F5 box, dunno what they run. But the actual streaming and broadcast radio signal chain up to the transmitter is Linux.)
The FM transmitter is in a remote location getting its audio program from a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian connected via DSL to a Linode running Airtime and Icecast2 for station automation and streaming. The studio machine is a Linux Mint XFCE box running The BUTT connected via DSL to the Linode and Airtime. I've done a few Liquidsoap customizations to Airtime to fill in missing features (AutoDJ, saving incoming streams, etc) and will be doing more, possibly contributing them upstream if I can keep them clean and general enough.
-ken
My little weird project has released a song this year as well, ready
to ruin the holiday cheer for those that want it. It's mostly doom
this year I guess, sprinkled with some bongo parts and such nonsense.
And some chaos at the end.
As usual with this band (and a reason why I rarely post about the
releases here), it's a total rush job, with the vocalist doing his
parts only last week, and me trying to squeeze in some bad mixing job
until I had to upload it yesterday, when I left home for the rest of
the year.
I know some people have trouble with bandcamp, so if you can't listen
(or take advantage of the free download), and have a good idea for a
place I could upload it for easy wget, let me know!
Link: http://constipation.bandcamp.com/album/the-christmess-three
Happy yule-time to you all!
Hi list,
please help with a realtime permissions issue trying to start jackd via
my systemd service script on raspbian.
As root or as user peter (which is part of the audio group) I can start
jackd fine using either
jackd -v -R -d alsa -r 44100 -P
or
jackd -v -d alsa -r 44100 -P
No error message mention that realtime was (or wasn't) enabled. Is
this normal and intended?
Checking with htop, there are three jackd processes with a priority of
20 and on with -11. Does this mean that realtime is enabled?
Using mplayer as user peter I can play back audio via jack.
Now I try to start jackd automatically from a systemd service file
created as /etc/systemd/system/jackd.service with the following
contents:
[Unit]
Description=jackd
After=sound.target
[Service]
User=peter
ExecStart=/usr/bin/jackd -d alsa -r 44100 -P
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
I install that service with
sudo systemctl enable jackd.service
and run
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
after having changed the above service file.
When I start that service it fails with errors in the journal:
"JACK is running in realtime mode, but you are not allowed to use
realtime scheduling."
and
"Please check your /etc/security/limits.conf for the following line"
and so on. Messages that are not present when starting jackd as user
from the command line.
Now I am puzzled because I thought that it is enough to specify user
"peter" in the systemd service.
Well if I comment the line
User=peter
out and start the service again, jackd runs. It is five processes
with priority 20 and one with -11.
The stupid thing now is that the normal user peter can use that jackd:
Mplayer tells me that
"connect(2) call to /tmp/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=No such
file or directory)"
So I reckon that a user can't use a jackd started by another user, or
root?
Now I removed above service and installed it as user service
~/.local/share/systemd/user/jackd.service and contents:
[Unit]
Description=jackd
After=sound.target
[Service]
User=peter
ExecStart=/usr/bin/jackd -d alsa -r 44100 -P
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
It gets installed with
systemctl --user enable jackd.service
and started with
systemctl --user start jackd.service
Jackd is now started and can be used with mplayer. But the systemd
service is no longer started at boot not at login of user peter. I have
to run:
systemctl --user start jackd.service
Also trying
loginctl enable-linger peter
does not help. The general question remains: How can I run a systemd user
service without that user being logged in?
Another way recommended at
https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/admin/10795275
or
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/131584/jack-fluidsynth-as-user-sy…
is to add some lines specifying Limits.
[Unit]
Description=jackd
After=sound.target
[Service]
User=peter
LimitRTPRIO=infinity
LimitMEMLOCK=infinity
ExecStart=/usr/bin/jackd -d alsa -r 44100 -P
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
It does not start jackd with the same error as above.
"JACK is running in realtime mode, but you are not allowed to use
realtime scheduling."
and
"Please check your /etc/security/limits.conf for the following line"
Now this took me four hours so far without success and I wonder what is
a functional way to use jackd via systemd on a headless computer in
2019. All comments are very welcome!
Peter
