Linux-audio-dev January 2005

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[linux-audio-dev] Linux friendly, portable digital recording devices?

by Ian Howard

Hey all, We are looking for some portable digital recording devices with the following criteria: - very small - durable - near $100 ($100-150) - usb compatible - linux + windows friendly - mic-in with a reasonable signal-to-noise ratio - descent quality recordings - battery powered We intend to distribute about 10 - 20 of these units to radio journalists in Mali, whom will use these devices to collect material for their programs which they can then edit in Audacity and broadcast on the air. We are looking at devices such as the iRiver 190T Any one have any experience with such devices, in particular using them with linux? Ian On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 12:06 -0500, linux-audio-dev-request(a)music.columbia.edu wrote: > Send linux-audio-dev mailing list submissions to > linux-audio-dev(a)music.columbia.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > linux-audio-dev-request(a)music.columbia.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > linux-audio-dev-owner(a)music.columbia.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of linux-audio-dev digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Tascam US428 Continued hangups (Spencer Russell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 02:09:21 -0800 > From: Spencer Russell <Spencer.Russell(a)oberlin.edu> > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tascam US428 Continued hangups > To: linux-audio-dev(a)music.columbia.edu > Message-ID: <20041226100921.GA12396@slingshot> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:05:07PM -0500, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > > > > ... > > device. It was probably this very one that was aunting you before. After > > some attention and furious alsa-bugtracker exchange, Karten Wiese has been > > able to solve this, even tought he's got no OHCI hardware near him. > > > > I was watching that thread a little, because my symptoms were > very similar. Strangely, though, I have a UHCI based card, so I'm > not sure why I was seeing similar symtoms. > > > Then Karsten did it again. He crafted a special jackd alsa/usx2y backend > > which enabled the so-called raw-usb mode of operation. And it was just > > yesterday I have proposed the merge into the official alsa backend driver > > on the jackit-devel list. With this new experimental stuff, one can run > > jackd in realtime with pretty lowest-latency parameters, without aural > > artifacts (i.e. crackling). AFAICT this is a greatest breakthrough on the > > USB audio arena, so I would think twice about getting rid of your US428 ;) > > > > I'm having a bit of trouble with the usx2y backend to jackd. I > bastardized the jackd-us2xy rpm to make a nice deb file, but > jackd still says "unknown driver 'usx2y'". Even downloading and > compiling the source, and running it directly from the directory > it ws compiled into. And does it automatically use the rawusb > interface? What's the advantage of using the usx2y driver as > opposed to the alsa driver? > > > So my recipe goes like this: > > > > 1. Have REALTIME_PREEMPT on the kernel config. > > > > 2. Make sure you have loaded the latest snd-usb-usx2y>=0.8.7.1 (as of > > latest alsa-kernel cvs). > > > > 3. Tune the RT priorities (SCHED_FIFO) of the time-audio critical IRQ > > threads: > > 90 - timer (IRQ 0) > > 80 - rtc (IRQ 8) > > 70 - snd (or whatever your PCI soundcard will hook, usually IRQ 5) > > 60 - usb (ohci_hcd or uhici_hcd, usually IRQ 10) > > You should have schedutils installed (chrt) for this exercise. > > > > 4. Load the snd-usb-usx2y with the nrpacks parameter set for: > > a. high-stability: nrpacks=4 > > b. low-latency: nrpacks=1 > > Anyway, be advised that you can only run the forementioned "rawusb" > > mode if you set on this later one (modprobe snd-usb-usx2y nrpacks=1). > > > > Run your jackd command line (or qjackctl;) as usual, but given the above > > priority tunning, you should try e.g. jackd -R -P60 ... > > > Thanks a lot for this detailed info! I recompiled the newest > snd-usb-usx2y driver, but how do I tune RT priorities? I got the > schedutils package, but I'm having trouble finding details on how > to use chrt. > > Thanks again for the info. > -spencer > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > linux-audio-dev mailing list > linux-audio-dev(a)music.columbia.edu > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > > > End of linux-audio-dev Digest, Vol 15, Issue 46 > *********************************************** -- Ian Howard IESC/Geekcorps Mali "les volontaires de l'informatique" coordinateur de programme -------------------------------------------------- geekcorps (http://maligeekcorps.org) ihoward(a)geekcorps.org bureau/office: +223 221 49 43 mobile: +223 640 30 40 Porte 1085, Rue 240, Bamako, Mali

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-dev] Announcement: The Future of Music Software One-day Workshop

by Xavier Amatriain

Announcement: The Future of Music Software One-day Workshop ----------------------------------------------------------- The Music Technology Group ( http://www.iua.upf.es/mtg/ ), the Technology Department and Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( http://www.upf.es/ ) invite you to one-day music-software workshop, sponsored by S2S² (http://www.s2s2.org/). On Friday January 28th there will be talks, a discussion panel and a hands-on workshop in various parts of the university. Among the invited speakers are: * Miller Pluckette : http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/index.htm * Roger Dannenberg : http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~rbd/ * George Tzanetakis : http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~gtzan/ * Ross Bencina : http://www.audiomulch.com/~rossb/ * Xavier Amatriain : http://www.iua.upf.es/~xamat/ * ... The hands-on part of the day will be an informal workshop at the MTG, guided by the invited speakers. Attending this workshop is free of charge, but we ask you to register: please send an email to Bram de Jong ( mailto:bdejong@iua.upf.es ) to register. Locations: * morning: Talks and Discussion panel. Auditorium (ground-floor) in the França building of UPF Address: Passeig de Circumval·lació, 8 08003 Barcelona. * afternoon: Hands-on Workshop MTG Address: Ocata, 1-3. 08003 Barcelona http://www.bcn.es/cgi-guia/guiamap4/cgi-guia/?scl=5&cnt=31959.37%2C81960.18… If you have any more questions, feel free to contact Bram de Jong ( mailto:bdejong@iua.upf.es )

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-dev] WXWidget/Portmidi cross platform dev

by Dubphil

Happy new year 2005 to all LA fellows ! Recently I have contacted a manufacturer (WaveIdea) to help them adapting their hardware (a great midi Interface unit http://www.waveidea.com/en/products/bitstream_3x/) on Linux and they are very opened to collaborate with the community. They are developping with the cross platform libraries WXWidget and Portmidi, libraries used for example by "Audacity". they have two softs. - a proprieritary soft : the firmware upgrader, I have compiled it on Linux and it looks like it will work very well on this platform. - a "future" open source soft (I succeed in convincing them to make it open source) that has not been developped completely. It is the configuration tool of the unit. The developpment should consist in : - linking the UI action to the low level functions that should send/receive Sysex between the soft and the unit. - Improve the UI itself. Anyone interested to help finishing this open source soft is welcome, just contact me. Philippe

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-dev] Re: Need tips to get OSS midi configured

by airplays55＠yahoo.com

Thanks for the responses - the reason I didn't give more details is mainly because I don't know where to begin troubleshooting. Firstly let me explain why I need this to work on knoppix. I boot knoppix from a customized image on a compact flash card, so I've been able to add and customize a lot of software, and it runs all sorts of things for me like a webserver, proxy, browser, etc etc. I have a dedicated computer at my house that is always running knoppix (without harddrive) which is always on since there is no harddrive to eventually crash. For my serious audio work I have another computer that runs midi software I've been using since the late 80's (Dr. T's) in an Atari ST emulator, and this system does everything I need for now. Although I've been dabbling with Agnula and ALSA (with no luck yet), I still need to get the knoppix system working with rosegarden2 so that we will have a midi scratchpad to save song ideas with, to be later imported into a different system with rosegarden4 or cakewalk sonar or whatever. OK here are some details on my system. The computer is a gateway P2/266, and I have three soundcards (and a usb interface) that I've tried booting with, but knoppix doesn't autoconfigure the midi ports on any of them, although knoppix is able to identify and configure the audio portion of the soundcards. My hunch is that I should be able to manually get the midi portion to be recognized if I knew what to do. The soundcards I've tried are 1) a digital research ESS1869 ISA card, 2) an AVANCE LOGIC als-100 ISA card, 3) yamaha YMF-724 PCI card, and 4) a midiman midisport 1x1 USB interface. When I run rosegarden2 (that comes included in knoppix), the midi setup has /dev/null as the midi device. If I change it to /dev/midi, or /dev/sequencer, it says "device invalid or busy" when I run sndconfig with the yamaha pci card installed, it says "the yamaha corp ymf-724 (pci) is not currently supported" although I still hear audio through the wav output. when I run sndconfig with the ESS1869 ISA card installed, it says "no PnP or PCI soundcards were found - choose from list" then I choose "ESS1868 audiodrive" from the list, then I get a segmentation fault. I checked my /etc/modules.conf - I don't see an entry "snd-seq-oss", but the top of the file says run "update-modules" instead of editing modules.conf directly. So thats where I am now; I don't know what modules I need loaded (snd-seq-oss?) and I don't know where to find or how to add modules (yet). What can I try next? Any tips will be much appreciated! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

20 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-dev] UPnP AV Media Server for Linux ?

by Andreas Kuckartz

UPnP (http://upnp.org) seems to have been adopted by many/most producers of audio streaming devices. I am looking for Open Source Media Server software for Linux which is accessable by UPnP AV Media Renderers. Any suggestions? Interesting material which I have found so far: Overview of UPnP AV Architecture http://www.intel.com/technology/upnp/download/UPnP_AV_Arch.pdf Linux SDK for UPnP Devices 1.2.1 (libupnp) http://upnp.sourceforge.net/ LINUX UPNP INTERNET GATEWAY DEVICE http://linux-igd.sourceforge.net/ CyberLink / CyberMediaGateway http://www.cybergarage.org/net/index.html Intel(R) software for UPnP technology http://www.intel.com/technology/upnp/index.htm Cheers, Andreas

20 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-dev] need tips to get OSS midi configured

by airplays55＠yahoo.com

I am in desperate need of advice! I don't know if this post is appropriate here but for months I have been seeking info from different linux audio forums/lists, and have gotten nowhere. I have a knoppix installation that includes rosegarden2 and OSS drivers and am trying to get OSS to recognize the midiports. The midiports are not recognized upon bootup. How can I configure/check the midi port configuration for the OSS drivers? Yes I know that rosegarden4 blows away rosegarden2, and ALSA is the way to go, but since knoppix includes rosegarden2 and OSS, I think it would be easier for me to get this working than switch to ALSA and new software. I have tried several midi interfaces/soundcards which I know are supposed to work (ISA, PCI, and USB) Any advice would be much appreciated! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

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Linux-audio-dev January 2005