[David McNab]
>Sorry to bother you again, but there's a slight problem with your SF2
>python module.
>
>If the soundfont file I write out contains one or more drum presets,
>'asfxload' spits an error 'loop size is too short: 0' when I try to load
>the font into my sblive card. However, fluidsynth loads it in fine.
loading the original sf2 gives no error from 'asfxload'? loop size 0
is legal for unlooped samples (which many drum sounds of course are)
fwiw.
i'm not quite sure …
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this doesn't seem to be related. can you check whether the presets
have stereo samples?
other than this potential problem, SF2.py shouldn't change a thing
about the sf2 data it handles. i'm afraid you'll have to narrow the
problem down a bit.
tim
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Ok, so the rough version of the paper (following initial 10-hour revisions
that converted my brain into a gray mush) is now available in the PDF format
from my website. If you are interested in providing some feedback as to how
I can make the paper even better, please let me know asap as I only have
another day or so before I need to turn-in the paper.
Also please note that the paper will be available in the ICMC proceedings as
a short version that lacks chapters 7 and 9 due to space …
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full paper will be available online-only.
The url to the PDF is as follows:
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/temp_online.pdf
Any comments and/or suggestions are welcome and appreciated (although I
honestly cannot guarantee that all of them will make it into final revision
due to aforementioned deadline).
Time to hit the sack...
Best wishes,
Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/
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Hi,
I'm using a Soundblaster Live! card (emu10k1 driver) under ALSA.
The 'asfxload' util works fine for loading a single soundfont.
But when trying to load different soundfonts with the '-b1' option, for
instance:
asfxload -b1 dance.sf2
I get:
asfxload: invalid option -- b
asfxload: invalid option -- 1
This conflicts with the manpage for [a]sfxload.
Also, when I send Bank Select messages from my MIDI keyboard, these get
ignored (although Bank Select LSB works when I use …
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Any thoughts on either or both of these issues?
--
Cheers
David
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Hi,
forgive me if this question has been asked before: Is there something like a
Linux Live CD optimized for and containing audio (editing) applications?
Something like this
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
where I can simply insert the CD, boot from it, and start working on my songs?
-Oliver
Mit schönen Grüßen von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de
Hi all,
Just found out that I will be presenting a paper titled "Linux as a Mature
Digital Audio Workstation in Academic Electroacoustic Studios - Is Linux
Ready for Prime Time?" at the upcoming ICMC2004 (International Computer
Music Conference) this fall.
Although I have only 3 more days to do final editing for the camera-ready
paper :-(, if you have any ideas or thoughts for additions to the paper I
will certainly read through them and try to add them (if they are not
already included). I …
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exits the realm of "ugly" ;-)
Best wishes,
Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/
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well, it appears that there is little to no response to the proposal
from the LADSPA meeting at ZKM. just to be sure that the silence is an
accurate reflection of what people think, i want to take a harsh
stance on the proposal and see if it generates any response...
if we follow through with the proposal, LADSPA will no longer be a
header file. it will require the use of a library. the actual struct
in the header file will contain the absolute bare minimum information
required to actually run …
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hints, no default values. we will try to make the library
self-contained, dependency-free, but it will still be more complex
than the current model.
moreover, there will be 2 versions of LADSPA floating around, thus
leading to problems with host/plugin compatibility issues.
personally, i think its worth going through this pain. we will end up
with a system in which new LADSPA extensions do not require changes to
the API, which is a great thing. but it will be painful to get there,
and i want to check that people don't mind doing it.
--p
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[David McNab]
>Can someone please recommend a program for Linux which can easily take
>presets from one or more existing soundfont files, and compile them into
>a new soundfont file?
with about 10 lines of python (plus a few to name the presets you're
after) you can do such tricks with this little helper here:
http://quitte.de/file-formats/SF2.py
at the end of the file it shows how to extract one preset into a
separate .sf2; modification for many presets/sf2 files should be
straightforward.
cheers,
tim
Hello list,
I'm involved in a (friendly) debate on the surround sound list.
One the main contributors of this list, Angelo Farina (univ. of
Parma, Italy) wants to make available some interesting 4-channel
recordings he recently made. The distribution format has to be
lossless. I already pointed him to FLAC and the Windows tools
available for this format. He tested these and has some objections:
- The codec does accept WAV, but not WAV-EX files.
- There seems to be no Windoze player that can …
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4 channels FLAC files directly.
I'd like to exert some gently pressure towards an open source
format, but then I'll need some answers to these problems.
So if anyone has some information about this, I'd like to
know. All this may be a bit OT, so maybe the best thing is
to contact me by email.
TNX,
--
Fons
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ROSEGARDEN-4 0.9.8 RELEASED
===========================
The Rosegarden team are pleased to announce the release of
Rosegarden-4 0.9.8, an audio and MIDI sequencer and score editor
for Linux.
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
This release is primarily focused on bugfix, performance and usability
improvements over 0.9.7, including significant optimisations to the
main editing canvas, sequencer and GUI memory leak fixes, faster and
better notation editing and printing, and dozens of other fixes.…
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also contains a handful of new features including MIDI mixer window,
ottava and fingering marks in notation, and a redesigned audio segment
manager.
Features of Rosegarden include:
o Score, piano-roll, event list and track overview editors
o MIDI and audio playback and recording with ALSA and JACK
o Audio plugin support using LADSPA
o Score interpretation of performance MIDI data
o MIDI file I/O, Csound, Lilypond and MusicXML export
o Clear and consistent KDE-based user interface
o Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability
o User interface in Russian, Spanish, German, French, Welsh,
Italian, Swedish and Estonian, as well as UK and US English.
Chris
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