Linux-audio-dev April 2003

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by Alfons Adriaensen

Hello list, A new LADSPA plugin, "moogvcf-1.1", has just been uploaded to <http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net>. It contains three versions of the 24 dB/oct lowpass Moog VCF, in which I try to emulate some of the non-linear behaviour of the original. Enjoy ! FA -- Fons Adriaensen ALCATEL SPACE

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-dev] Jack Zombified??

by Nick Tsocanos

What does it mean when it says "zombified -- exiting from JACK". Why exactly is it becoming a zomby or what does it mean and, how do I reconnect if it does that? It seems to do it intermittently without any clue why it does it. Thanks

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-dev] SoundFontCombi v0.012 Last Alpha Release.

by holborn

Hi. New release ... Important news in v0.0012 ------------------------- * Added 1 Midi Inputs and 4 Midi Outputs. (Now two INs and six OUTs) * Added 2 small utilities for convert Combis and Banks to this new version. * Added new command line functions * Now SountFontCombi recognizes program change. (1-44) * Solved bug in bank window, now display the names correctly when you load a new bank.(sorry for that). * Solved command line segfault when load confi * Solved "many" other minor bugs. And of course new bugs added :-). Bad News * Due the changes made in v.0012 you need to REWRITE your configuration. Take a look http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc1.png Sources availabes in: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc-v0.012.tar.gz Binaries availables in: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc-bin-v0.012.tar.gz

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-dev] ecasound 2.2.3 released

by Kai Vehmanen

1. A short summary of changes User-friendliness of 'jack_auto' and 'resample' audio objects has been improved. Compile-time support added for both JACK -0.50 and 0.60-. Python-only implementation of ECI is now selected by default. Work-around included for a bug in ALSA -0.9.1 that broke xrun handling for record and playback. Lots of small bugs have been fixed in the build process. The SIGFPE bug that occured on FreeBSD systems is now fixed, as is the non-aligned access problem on Alphas. --- 2. What is ecasound? Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included in the package. Ecasound is licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface (ECI) is licensed under the LGPL. --- 3. Changes since last release Full list of changes is available at <http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/history.html>. --- 4. Interface and configuration file changes None. --- 5. Contributors Patches Kai Vehmanen (various) Bug Hunting (items closed) Jan Stary (2) Feature requests (items implemented) Daniel Kruszyna (jack_auto) Janne Halttunen (resample,auto) --- 6. Links and files Web sites: http://www.eca.cx http://www.eca.cx/ecasound Source packages: http://ecasound.seul.org/download http://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.2.3.tar.gz Distributions with maintained ecasound support: Agnula - http://www.agnula.org Debian - http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/ecasound2.2.html DeMuDi - http://www.demudi.org FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org PLD Linux - http://www.pld.org.pl PlanetCCRMA - http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software SuSE Linux - http://www.suse.de/en Contrib Packages for Distributions: Mandrake - http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.0.html Note! Distributors do not necessarily provide packages for the very latest ecasound version. -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Mini-Conf @ LCA2004

by Conrad Parker

Hi everyone, the organisers of linux.conf.au have agreed to provide a venue for a Linux Audio Mini-Conference, in the lead-up to LCA2004 in Adelaide, South Australia. It's in January 2004, which should provide enough time for planning your travel down under :) I've drafted up a Call for Participation and other info at: http://www.metadecks.org/events/lca2004/ I'd like to encourage as many of you as possible to come along. It will be held in the days before linux.conf.au, hence you'll get a full Linux conference afterwards and a chance to talk to the kernel folk and other developers and users. January is mid-summer in Australia, and linux.conf.au has a history of fine weather and great beaches. In 2004 the conference will be held in Adelaide, a city well regarded for its churches, wineries and the Coopers brewery -- quite possibly the finest beers in the country! I hope to see you there :) Conrad.

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-dev] graph layout software

by Dave Griffiths

Just looking at what maya uses to do it's auto graph layout: http://www.tomsawyer.com/glt/ I think we discussed this before, but are there any opensource solutions for this? Might be an interesting project, although I can imagine it getting very heavy... Would be nice for our modulars though. The graph on the left of the second diagram is very familiar to me from using SSM anyway ;) dave

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-dev] LinuxTag in July - who's in?

by Frank Neumann

Hello list, the first LAD conference is just over, but there is already the next event at the horizon which needs to be planned for timely. I am talking about the next LinuxTag (http://www.linuxtag.org - though it seems they have problems with their NS entry right now..), Europe's largest exhibition on all kinds of topics dealing with our favourite OS. It takes place from July 10th - 13th, 2003, and again - surprise, surprise :-) - in Karlsruhe. As in the past years, open-source projects are given a chance to present their work there (without having to pay any booth fees), and we did this during the last 2 years (and even quite successfully, I might add). I had a short E-mail talk with Martin 'Joey' Schulze, who is again responsible for allotting the space for the open-source booths, and I think we have a good chance of getting one again. The idea of this booth would be to present the current LAD developments to the masses. That is e.g sample editing, recording, MIDI sequencing, score editing, soft synthesizing and soon on. If possible, I'd also very much like to have some ALSA developers there again as..uhm.."technical consultants" :-). It's 4 days of work, but quite interesting, you learn a lot, and I think most of you who were there the last 2 years somewhat enjoyed the show :-). Of course, what is required now is - you. The last 2 years we had about 6 - 10 people who ran the booth which gives everyone a chance to take a break after 3 hours of constant demo'ing :-). Anyone who is willing to devote some 4 - 5 days of his time to this project, please let me know. If we get together enough personnel, there is a good chance for this booth becoming reality once more. Thanks for reading, Frank

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-dev] SoudFontCombi v0.006

by holborn

Hi. SoundFontCombi takes the advantages of Alsa sequencer and emulate a synthetizer or a Master Keybourd routing MIDI events. 8 Parts and 2 Midi Outs. Program released GNU/GPL version 2. New in release v0.006: New look Display program chage name por each part Some functions on command line Preset List Minor bugs solved. Take a look in : http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc.png This is the first release with sources.. require FLTK v1.1.1 to compile. Program are available in: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc-v0.006.tar.gz Binaries also available: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc-bin-v0.006.tar.gz Comments will be apreciatted Josep

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-dev] a Varga Csound compile problem

by Dave Phillips

Greetings: I've been trying to solve this one for a while but I can't see the light. I'm compiling Istvan Varga's beta 4.24.2 Csound for Linux, but I'm stuck here: g++ -pipe -Wall -O2 -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -funroll-loops -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC -DPIC -I. -I. -I./include -I./opcodes -DWINDOWS -DSFIRCAM -DSYS5 -DLINUX -DHAVE_TERMIOS_H -DIV_VERSION -DPIPES -DMACROS -DHAVE_FLTK -D_REENTRANT -DMYFLT=float -march=i686 -falign-functions=16 -falign-loops=16 -falign-jumps=16 -frename-registers -mno-ieee-fp -mno-sse -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fno-unroll-loops -I/usr/local/include/FL -c widgets.cpp -o widgets.o widgets.cpp: In method `int Fl_Knob::handle (int)': widgets.cpp:230: `atan2' undeclared (first use this function) widgets.cpp:230: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) widgets.cpp: In method `void Fl_Knob::draw_scale (int, int, int)': widgets.cpp:289: `cos' undeclared (first use this function) widgets.cpp:290: `sin' undeclared (first use this function) widgets.cpp:310: `log10' undeclared (first use this function) widgets.cpp:278: warning: `float ca' might be used uninitialized in this function widgets.cpp:278: warning: `float sa' might be used uninitialized in this function widgets.cpp: In method `void SNAPSHOT::get (vector<ADDR_SET_VALUE, allocator<ADDR_SET_VALUE> > &)': widgets.cpp:1171: `::pow' undeclared (first use here) widgets.cpp:1172: `log' undeclared (first use this function) widgets.cpp: In function `void fl_callbackJoystick (Fl_Widget *, void *)': widgets.cpp:1759: warning: `float val' might be used uninitialized in this function make: *** [widgets.o] Error 1 [dlphilp@localhost Csound-4.24.1]$ I understand that the missing functions are math functions, but math.h is included at the start of widgets.cpp. Unfortunately widgets.cpp is about 104 KB so I didn't want to send it along with this message. If anyone wants to look at it I'll gladly send it off-list. But it seems I've run into this kind of problem before, that it's some sort of C vs. C++ thing... but I also know less than zero about C++... (and only a wee bit more about C)... TIA to anyone who can assist ! Best regards, == Dave Phillips The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-dev] Direct Stream Digital / Pulse Density Modulation musing/questions

by Dustin Barlow

I read an interesting article on Direct Stream Digital (DSD) / Pulse Density Modulation (PDM) entitled "A Better Mousetrap" by Brian Smithers in the May 2003 issue of Electronic Musician. Since, Brian did a good job explaining PDM/DSD in quasi-layman terms, I'll just quote snippets from his article to set the stage for my questions. <quote a="EM: A Better Mousetrap" p="96"> In DSD, the amplitude of the waveform is represented by the relative density of the ones and zeros within the bitstream; for that reason the technique is also known as Pulse Density Modulation (PDM). A full positive waveform results in all ones and, whereas a full negative waveform results in all zeros. Silence would yield a string of alternating ones and zeros (Alternating ones and zeros reflect the "neutral" density of silence.) Sony claims a resulting dynamic range of 120db for DSD. In the simplest terms, DSD compares the energy of a waveform at each sample point to the accumulated energy of previous sample periods. If the energy is higher, a value of 1 is recorded; if the energy is lower, a value of 0 is recorded. Because the bitstream represents the change (delta) in energy compared to the sum (sigma) of the previous energies, another name for this technique is Sigma-Delta Modulation (SDM). </quote> The article goes on to explain how DSD uses a sampling rate of 2.8224 MHz resulting in a frequency response that extends to 100kHz. The higher sample rate can also improve stereo/surround imaging. <quote a="EM: A Better Mousetrap" p="96"> One more justification for DSD is that the steep filters required for PCM to conform to the Nyquist theorem can themselves degrade the sound due to their sharp cutoff. In fact, it has become common for PCM analog-to-digital (A/D) converters to start with a 1-bit conversion stage and then apply a digital decimation filter to convert the bitstream to PCM format. DSD essentially bypasses the decimation filter and stores the 1-bit data directly. </quote> DSD/PDM appears to be a superiour technique for recording and playing audio material. Granted, this technology may never catch on because of all the hardware and software changes that would be required to mirror what a typical PCM based DAW currently does. But, if DSD/PDM does catch on, and DAWs start being produced, how will this effect current audio DSP techniques? How would JACK's current design be effected by a 1-bit stream format? The article mentions a program called Pyramix (Windows) which features DSD support. However, for Pyramix to do EQ, dynamics, reverb processing, and to display waveforms and vu levels, it converts DSD to a "high quality" PCM format. I suspect that if DSD/PDM has any hope of succeeding in the current DAW world, there will have to be some real-time lossless converter constructed to seemlessly bridge the formats. But that of course begs the question of why use DSD in the first place if you just are forced to "decimate" it PCM to process it? Sony is currently using DSD/PDM in their SACD format, and are positioning themselves to be the competing format to PCM based DVD-A. The fact that something like this shows up in EM means that at some level the format is being given some credence and is being watched by others then just the audiophile recording crowd. Is DSD/PDM just a flash in the pan, or does it really represent a new wave of thinking regarding storing/processing audio data? Dustin _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

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Linux-audio-dev April 2003