Hi!
This already went to the LAU list, please ignore if you are subscribed
there, too.
This is a call for contributions. Take your chance of becoming part of
a crowd of people all around the world, counting to the rhythm in
several languages!
Contributors will be credited in order of their submissions and this will
also likely influence the order of use in the track ;)
Besides recording yourself and family and friends and pets (if they are
able to count), you can help by spreading the word.
What I'm after are recordings of one person at a time, saying:
A: "One Two Three Four"
B: "One and Two and Three and Four and"
C: "Beat" (to be translated to whatever makes sense 4 times in one measure
at 4/4. A single utterance is enough, as I want to use these as accent.)
- Translated in a native language and any language spoken without much
of an accent. If there are special ways of counting to the beat in a
language, use those (only or even better additionally) and inform me.
- With a tempo of 110 beats per minute (to be very clear, the "and" has
to be between beats ;).
- A and B should ideally be recorded with about 4 iterations (4 measures)
Don't think that your language will already be well-represented without
you. Others might think the same ;) Also, the more I can layer in one
language, the better.
All files should be:
- ideally wavpacked, or plain WAV as second choice
- 32 bit float, 48 KHz
- Trimmed
- Normalized
- Dry
- Explicitly licensed as http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
or released to the Public Domain
_Only_ if you don't record with a JACK application, 16 and 24 bit integer
formats are also acceptable.
Please name the files as follows:
- firstname_lastname_language_count.wav for "One Two Three Four"
- firstname_lastname_language_count_and.wav for "One and Two ..."
- firstname_lastname_language_beat.wav for "Beat"
Email attachments are no option for such large files, so only send
links to uploads. Consider using http://www.getdropbox.com/ if you have
no other space. Please mail me off-list for submissions and on-list for
questions.
I'm also available as thorwil in #lad and #ardour at irc.freenode.net.
My intention is to offer the result and the material on archive.org.
This is an open-source project ;)
I also want to submit a version to the
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase
I can't promise to use all contributions. I will sort out ones that
sound suspiciously different from others claimed to be in the same
language ;)
However, all serious contributors will be given credit.
Deadline:
I will start to work with the material as soon as I have enough, but
will accept more until the 23rd of January.
Thanks!
--
Thorsten Wilms
thorwil's design for free software:
http://thorwil.wordpress.com/
Hi all,
My name is Daire O'Neill. I've just joined the list to hopefully begin my
learning on audio development and possibly to contribute to some current
projects. As a beginner, I have only basic C/C++ skills, and have never
worked on any major project before. I do have a good knowledge of audio
technology and some basic DSP concepts, its the programming side of things
that lets me down! I'm currently working my way through 'Accelerated C++' by
Koenig and Moo though, so I'm learning every day. I really want to learn
about audio development and become involved with an audio project,
particularly a multitrack recorder. I would like to be able to write my own
simple multitrack recorder eventually. Anyway, if anyone has any tips or
suggestions, or can recommend a project where I could be of help, then
please let me know.
Regards,
Daire
I tried to install Express Scribe, but it wouldn't install under Ubuntu.
It has the features I'd need.
The features I need in such a program is a way to "remotely" signal to
it to pause, rewind five seconds then unpause. A desired feature would
be some way to speed up and slow down the audio stream without altering
the pitch.
Do I need to program a transcription program for the Open Source world,
or is there one already?
I worked in the past on FreeBSD audio drivers, and have done some simple
audio applications under Linux, such as a text to morse-code generator.
I have a lot of transcribing to do, so writing such a program may be
worthwhile if it isn't already done yet.
Ted
--
There's a party in your skull. And you're invited!
Name: Ted Walther
Phone: 604-625-7635
Email: ted(a)reactor-core.org
Address: 26337 64 Ave, Langley, BC V4W1M3
Hi,
A couples months ago we started a forum at linuxmusicians.com . Our aim
is to bring Linux musicians together and help each other to make music
on the Linux platform. We want to promote FLOSS software for making
music. We also want to make making music on Linux more accessible for
newbies and less computer minded people. We think a forum is a good
platform for this.
For making music on Linux, we need of course good software. To
inspire and help people to become a Linux audio developer, we launched a
special part for developers on our forum, which you can find here:
http://linuxmusicians.com/viewforum.php?f=44
As mentioned before, this should be a good and accessible place for
newbie programmers. But we also like to invite more experienced
developers to share their stuff, knowledge and help some newbies with
their first steps. Would be cool if some of you guys will visit the
forum sometimes a month (for example) and give some feedback to newbie
programmers or projects. If someone like to write an article about how
to become a Linux audio programmer and how to start, you're very welcome!
We are aware of the fact that there is also a linux-audio-dev
mailinglist and IRC channel. We also think the Linux audio development
community should operate as centralized as possible. So people can learn
from each other and make a good interaction between different apps and
projects as good as possible. That's why we wrote a short introduction
in which we make new developers aware of the existence of these places.
http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=780
We hope we can inspire young and talented people to become a Linux audio
developer. We hope that you guys will support this initiative and are
willing to help new developers find their ways in the world of Linux
audio development.
Kind regards,
\r
Hello All!
I am just starting to use JACK and trying to run some of the example
clients. I am able to hear audio from the metronome example by connecting
the metronome output to the system playback ports.
However, when I connect metronome output to the simple_client input, I do
not hear any audio output. Since the simple client copies data from the
output port to the input port, I notice that the it should work in the same
fashion. Would anyone have any suggestions as to what could be possibly
wrong?
I am using qjackctl to launch the jack server and view the connections
between the different readable clients and the connections seem to show up
fine.
Thanks for your help. Happy New Year!
Regards,
Gopal
gopal.e(a)gmail.com
Merry season greetings!
After a very long quarantine period, and while after the last Flirty
Ditz romance, this pet has calmly bumped a few more steps ahead. Please
welcome, my Christmas present to y'all,
Qtractor 0.3.0 (fluffy doll) has been released!
Same old intro follows:
Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application, written in
C++ on top of Qt Software's Qt4 framework, having JACK and ALSA as its
main infrastructures and Linux as native and exclusive platform.
Specially suited to the lone-wolf composer, arranger and (re)creative
music-maker personal home-studio, it still hopes to evolve as a fairly
featured desktop audio/MIDI workstation or at least, a prototypical part
of it ;)
Release highlights:
* Paste-Repeat command. (NEW)
* Punch in/out recording. (NEW)
* Session/project template support. (NEW)
* Current track auto-monitoring. (NEW)
* MIDI buses now supporting multi-timbral instrument plug-ins. (NEW)
* Individual clip gain/volume, normalize and audio/MIDI file export. (NEW)
* Copy/paste to desktop environment clipboard. (NEW)
* and many, many fixes and new bugs ;)
Website:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
- source tarball
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.3.0.tar.gz
- user manual
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.3.0-user-manual.pdf
Weblog (think upstream support):
http://www.rncbc.org
License:
Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Features:
- Multi-track audio and MIDI sequencing and recording.
- Developed on pure Qt4 C++ application framework (no Qt3 nor KDE
dependencies).
- Uses JACK for audio and ALSA sequencer for MIDI as multimedia
infrastructures.
- Traditional multi-track tape recorder control paradigm.
- Audio file formats support: OGG (via libvorbis), MP3 (via libmad,
playback only), WAV, FLAC, AIFF and many, many more (via libsndfile).
- Standard MIDI files support (SMF format 0 and 1).
- Non-destructive, non-linear editing.
- Unlimited number of tracks per session/project.
- Unlimited number of overlapping clips per track.
- XML encoded session/project description file.
- Point-and-click, multi-select, drag-and-drop interaction (drag, move,
drop, cut, copy, paste, delete, split)
- Unlimited undo/redo.
- Built-in mixer and monitor controls.
- Built-in connection patchbay control and persistence (a-la QjackCtl).
- LADSPA, DSSI and native VST plug-ins support.
- Unlimited number of plug-ins per track or bus.
- Plug-in presets, programs and chunk/configurations support.
- Audio/MIDI clip fade-in/out (linear, quadratic, cubic).
- Audio/MIDI clip gain/volume, normalize and export.
- Audio clip time-stretching (WSOLA-like or via librubberband),
pitch-shifting (also via librubberband) and seamless sample-rate
conversion (via libsamplerate).
- Audio/MIDI track export (mix-down, merge).
- Audio/MIDI metronome bar/beat clicks.
- MIDI clip editor (matrix/piano roll).
- MIDI instrument definitions (a-la Cakewalk(tm))
- JACK transport sync master.
- MMC control surface enabled.
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts.
Change-log:
- Almost complete rewrite of the plugin configuration and parameter
initialization logic.
- MIDI bank/program selection is now taken into account on plugins
initialization and replication.
- Fixed initial parameter values for native VST plugins.
- Track form plugin lists are now properly (re)initialized when track
type changes.
- Generic plugin forms now have the option to show/hide the parameter
widgets through the new "Params" button.
- New auto-monitor toggle option (menu Track/Auto Monitor): the current
selected track is now set on monitor and MIDI channel omni-mode
automagically, as a convenient workflow feature (kindly suggested by
Holborn).
- MIDI clip editor Tools menu is not disabled anymore when there's no
selection, drop-down menu items are instead.
- Make all recorded clips to honor either the punch-out or play-head
accumulated position; resolve all pending MIDI sequence note events on
record stop/close.
- Major silent move: audio plugins chain are now applied in a
pre-fader/meter basis as is usually implied from the mixer strip layout
ie. signal flows from the top to the bottom.
- All MIDI buses may now have plugins inserted so that multi-timbral
synth/sampler plugins get driven to their fullness.
- MIDI track plugin's dedicated audio output bus may now be effective,
as it seems, good old master audio output bus was being used, no matter
what.
- Paste-repeat command has been introduced, now allowing to replicate
and concatenate the clipboard contents over the time-line, with a given
repeat-count and optional period (see menu Edit/Paste Repeat... on the
main and MIDI clip editor windows).
- Normalize tool on MIDI clip editor got rewritten from its previous
brain dead, useless and utterly wrong operation.
- All time offsets and lengths are now zero-bar/beat based when
displayed in the BBT (bar.beat.ticks) format.
- MMC STEP gets adjusted to current snap-per-beat setting.
- Fixed broken initial buffering that was randomly crippling those audio
clips that fit integrally in cached and while on playback.
- Fix initialization of multiple instances of DSSI plugins which
implement run_multiple_synths (eg. fluidsynth-dssi), preventing an
instant crash on activation.
- Exclude deprecated VST elements from compilation.
- Export tracks dialog has new punch in/out range option.
- Somehow realized that looping and punch-recording are two mutually
exclusive states, at least until loop recording (ie. takes) gets real.
- Fixed bug #2249291 - Crash on tempo change; affecting the WSOLA based
time-stretching on all non-stereo audio clips.
- Incomplete audio peaks were being cached prematurely, fixed.
- Make way for paste/dropping items from the system clipboard over the
main track view. Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete of file items have now this
workaround fixed, wrt. Files widget keyboard shortcuts, respectively.
- Clip gain/volume propriety is now in place and reflected in audio clip
waveform drawing in particular.
- A new hideous progress bar is now lurking in the main status line, as
found convenient to display progress of the also new clip tools
(normalize, export, etc.).
- Clip normalize tool is now available (Edit/Clip/Normalise).
- Audio and MIDI clip file export is now available as a tool (see
Edit/Clip/Export...).
- Punch in/out (range) recording is now in experimental shape, with
minimal settings and functionality, already accessible through the main
menus, transport toolbars and visible on main tracks view and MIDI
editors as magenta colored line markers.
- External MIDI control events for channel volume (7) and channel
panning (10) are now handled properly through session tracks.
- Session file templates make its debut with new usability option, on
whether new sessions are created based on existing template file (see
View/Options.../Display/Session/New session template; nb. session
templates are just regular session files but loaded and saved with no
media content (no clips nor files).
- Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
- Implicit attempt to flush all pending notes for some, if not most
plugin instruments (eg. VSTi), on playback stop.
- Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
- Internal refactoring alert: Session and Options instances are now
being redesigned as singletons, preparing to get out of the way from the
master GUI/MainForm instance.
- Clip drawing methods refactored so let the fade-in/out handles get
seen with transparency over the clip graphics content.
- Reset and continue looping even still when continue past end transport
option is not set and playback is rolling.
Hope it makes through a Happy New Year with flying colors ;)
Cheers && Enjoy!
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Hi,
this mail is a short reminder that the LAC2009(1) Call for Papers is currently
active and awaiting your papers at (2).
The paper submission period ends on
Thursday, January 15, 2009, 24:00 UTC
so use the (hopefully) free time of the Christmas holidays to get your paper
into shape and upload it in time!
Hope to see you there,
Frank, on behalf of the LAC2009 organization team
(1) The LAC (Linux Audio Conference) is an annual event where developers,
users and composers from all around the world come together for 4 days
to present current developments, new compositions and other news to the
public, listen to concerts, and generally have a good time together.
The LAC2009 is taking place at the Casa della Musica in Parma, Italy,
from April 16th to 19th, 2009. The conference homepage is at
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2009/.
(2) Paper submission information:
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2009/call-for-papers/
Paper submission upload form:
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2009/openconf/openconf.php
"God does not play dice" said Einstein, but the assignment of IRQ's at
boot surely seems to be a bit of a random game (which only proves that
Linus isn't God, I suppose ...)
I would like to automagically increase the priority of the IRQ
associated with my soundcard - peek at "the dice" before placing my bet
so to say - how do I do that?
I used to have:
chrt -f -p 80 `pidof IRQ-20`
.. in rc.local, but sometimes the relevant IRQ changes to 19 (giving
IRQ-20 to something else), which may or may not cause a hanging system.
from (todays) /proc/interrupts:
[...]
19: 49 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1,
uhci_hcd:usb2
20: 8416716 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi firewire_ohci, HDA Intel,
uhci_hcd:usb5
While attemting to install alsa1.0.18a on a system based on Linux2.6.24,
I am stuck with:
alsa-kernel/core/hrtimer.c:29: error: implicit declaration of function
‘hrtimer_forward_now’
This function was introduced with kernel 2.6.25 - which also happens to
be the first kernel where RT-patches breaks for midi.
Anybody has got an idea for a workaround?
