[LAU] A made-in-linux audio project

[Lorenzo]

The video is now online:

Here: http://lorenzosu.altervista.org/kinoglaz/kino_en.html
Or here: http://www.viddler.com/explore/lorenzosu/videos/3/

Kind regards,
Lorenzo.


Lorenzo wrote:
> [ I try sending again as it seems my first message didn't get through 
> maybe due to attached screenshots]
>
> Ok, sorry for the delay but yesterday I had a little time to write and 
> recollect on this.
>
> The project consisted in the sonification of about 9 minutes from a 
> Russian silent film made in 1924.
>
> My hardware set-up is pretty simple: HP laptop with ubuntu (9.04 
> currently), ZOOM H4 digital recorder, headphones, speakers. 
> Software-wise: jack (qjack control), Ardour, Rosegarden, Pd-extended, 
> various plugins (from the ready-made ubuntu packags), lots of other 
> audio-related stuff not used in this project, video applications (see 
> below).
> I built Ardour and Rosegarden myself due to the ubuntu packages 
> notoriously being out of date for such applications.
> I made the mistake of compiling ardour with vst support which wasn't 
> really necessary (I ended up not using any vst at all, having so many 
> nice 'native' ones) and seemed to make it more crashy (all the crashes 
> I got where Wine). Otherwise it was very stable. Anyway, fortunately I 
> always had the 'ctrl+s tick' and Ardour has a very good undo/redo 
> support amongst its many features, which keeps memory even through 
> closing and reopening sessions.
>
> Audio + video (jack) - My first issue was to find a way to perfectly 
> sync audio and video for use with jack-transport-aware applications 
> (Ardour of course has no support for video - I think that's good). 
> Research lead to basically two options for jack-transport and video: 
> Openmovieeditor and Xjadeo, Because I wanted to use Ardour I was more 
> attracted by xjadeo's minimal interface (basically a video window 
> controlled by jack transport); I tried building xjadeo after 
> discovering there was no package for ubuntu but couldn't successfully 
> play video so used Movie Editor for quite a while; eventually someone 
> created a launchpad repository for xjadeo and that did work (after 
> transcoding the clip in the  right format).
> I created a suitable qjack control profile and a simple script for 
> launching the video in xjadeo, after which my fixed set-up was ardour 
> and the small xjadeo window "always on top" - see screenshot-2.png - 
> notice ardour was perfectly in sync with the video which was a must 
> for me).
>
> Some of the material I had recorded with the H4 recorder and then 
> trransfered as wav file directly to ardour or PD for editing/processing.
> Rosegarden and Pd were simply plugged into ardour via Jack, and 
> usually recorded "live" (for Rosegarden I also used transport). Many 
> sounds were created in Pd and recorded/edited in Ardour.
> I also used Pd as a stereo delay effect with a patch I made for some 
> music composed in Rosegarden, I had some out of sync problems in this 
> case, but easily solved them by manually realigning the clip. It may 
> be I had something wrong in the configuration, but I wanted to get 
> "the job done" so didn't investigate on the problem.
> In ardour I made massive use of volume and pan automation.
>
> Finally I exported the audio from ardour and imported both audio and 
> video in Cinelerra where I added some titles and translations in 
> English for the inter-titles in the silent film (the originals are in 
> Russian, but the DVD edition I had was in Italian) and rendered the 
> whole thing.
>
> I hope this might be helpful. I guess I wasn't very methodical in my 
> description so if something isn't clear or you'de like more 
> information don't hesitate to ask anything.
>
> Kind regards to the list,
> Lorenzo.
> PS: I plan to upload the video somewhere, but first I'de like to find 
> out the best option (i.e. probably not youtube)
>
> Lorenzo wrote:
>> I'm finalising a lab project for an electronic music course which 
>> consisted in the sonification of a silent film portion. All was done 
>> in ubuntu linux.
>> If it is of interest I can write down some details, and I also have a 
>> few screenshots.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Lorenzo.
>>
>> Leigh Dyer wrote:
>>> James Stone wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Interesting.. How do vocals work in a tracker environment?
>>>>     
>>>
>>> If you want an example, there's a free album (someone posted on the list 
>>> back when it came out, so full credit for my knowing about it goes to 
>>> them!) produced entirely in Renoise that's available as both MP3s and 
>>> the original Renoise files:
>>>
>>> http://hunz.com.au/2009/05/new-album-is-out-now-its-free/
>>>
>>> If nothing else, it's a great example of the kinds of things (including 
>>> vocals) that you can produce with Renoise.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Leigh
>>>
>>>   
>>>> What's the situation with plugins for renoise under Linux at the moment?
>>>>
>>>> How does midi control work?
>>>>
>>>> James
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
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