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ANN: buzztard 0.4.0 "the light in your eyes"

by Stefan Kost

hi, The buzztard team has released version 0.4.0 "the light in your eyes" of its buzz-alike music composer. All modules got extensive improvements over the last release from a half year ago. It is usable now and fun to play with. Give it a try and report bugs. bml -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Major addition is wavetable support for tracker plugins. Besides that the new release improves buzzmachine compatibility, performance and has a better build setup. bsl -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Major addition is wavetable support. Several bug fixes and build system cleanups. buzztard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As planned, main focus for this release was the wavetable support. Its done - buzztard can load what gstreamer can decode. The wavetable view has a nice waveform widget. Related to that buzztard has a new song-format that bundles the XML together with external files in a zip archive. Also the UI has seen a lot of improvements. The machine view looks nicer - Marc drew spiffy machine icons. In addition they now show real volume meters when playing. All meters are now properly synced. gst-buzztard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- API renaming to cleanup gst namespace usage. Now includes former gstbml module. project-page: http://www.buzztard.org screenshots: http://www.buzztard.org/index.php/Screenshots downloads : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55124 buzztard core developer team -- http://www.buzztard.org

16 years, 7 months

musicxml question

by Nathanael Anderson

I'm considering using music xml for a project i'm working on, does anyone here know how useful it is for guitar tab, where the same note can be played in multiple places on the fretboard, but postioning is important so the player doesn't have to move too far on the kneck. Thanks for any feedback, Nathanael

16 years, 7 months

Jack MTC/MMC slaving

by Alex Montgomery

Hello, I'm guessing from the research I've done online and from the lack of responses to my LAU message ( http://www.nabble.com/Slaving-jack-to-MMC-MTC-to20357929.html ) that JACK does not currently support slaving to external (or internal?) devices via MMC/MTC. I'm a C/C++ developer by trade, so I'm happy to get my hands dirty, but I wanted to know what other work, if any, has been done on this front. I've been told that both Rosegarden and Ardour can sync to MTC, but that they cannot then drive JACK transport in that mode. Would it be difficult to move this code over to JACK? Is there a reason this in't desirable? There's a small program called jackctlmmc that seems to do want I want, but it's a bit limited (seems pretty hardcoded) and I think that such a desirable feature should be integrated into a more widely used program. Any thoughts? Thanks, -- Alex

16 years, 7 months

problem with scheduling alsa events

by nescivi

Hiho, In the Midi output code of this opensource project I am working on, there is a problem with the timing when alsa events are scheduled in the future. The events take much longer to arrive (sometimes almost minutes later!). Below is the code snippet. Can anyone see what is wrong in here? Let me know if you need more code... sincerely, Marije int SC_AlsaMidiClient::sendEvent(int outputIndex, int uid, snd_seq_event_t* evt, float late) { snd_seq_real_time time; if ((outputIndex < 0) || (outputIndex >= mNumOutPorts)) return errIndexOutOfRange; snd_seq_ev_set_source(evt, mOutPorts[outputIndex]); if (uid == 0) { // send to all subscribed ports snd_seq_ev_set_subs(evt); } else { // send to specific port int cid, pid; SC_AlsaParseUID(uid, cid, pid); snd_seq_ev_set_dest(evt, cid, pid); } // late is the latency value in seconds in floats if (late > 0.f) { // old time calculation: // time.tv_sec = (unsigned)(late * 1.0e-6f); // time.tv_nsec = (unsigned)(late * 1.0e3f); // new time calculation. The old one was not correct time.tv_sec = (unsigned)(late); // seconds time.tv_nsec = (unsigned)(late * 1.0e9f) % 1000000000; // nanoseconds // should these be (long) instead??? } else { time.tv_sec = time.tv_nsec = 0; } post("MIDI (ALSA): sending event, time %i, %i, late %f\n", time.tv_sec, time.tv_nsec, late); snd_seq_ev_schedule_real(evt, mQueue, 1, &time); snd_seq_event_output_direct(mHandle, evt); return errNone; }

16 years, 7 months

jackctlmmc (kinda sorta) release

by Alex Montgomery

Hello, We'd like to announce a new release of jackctlmmc, a command line tool for driving JACK transport using Midi Machine Code that you can download here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=245788 or get the code here: http://repo.or.cz/w/jackctlmmc.git The program is still in its infancy but it should work for most MMC devices. It currently supports the following MMC commands: Play / Deferred Play - start transport Stop - stop transport Rewind - go to time 0 Goto: go to the specified SMPTE time It's a pretty simple command line utility for now, but we'll be working on a QT front end soon. To use jackctlmmc: 1) start the program on the command line: ./jackctlmmc -f <your device's SMPTE frame rate> -t <jitter tolerance in milliseconds> You can also specify -v if you want it to output messages in the console for all MMC commands it's handling, which is useful for testing. 2) connect your midi port to jackctlmmc using either aconnect or JACK's connect (you will have to specify JACK's midi driver as "seq" if you want to connect using JACK). For the goto command to work, jackctlmmc needs to know your device frame rate which you can specify with -f, or use the default 30 fps. Some MMC devices (like my BR900CD 8-track) are awfully spammy with their goto messages, so we've implemented a jitter tolerance (specified in milliseconds on the command line with -t, defaulting to 50) so jackctlmmc will ignore goto commands that are already close enough to the current JACK transport time. There's still a lot of work to do on the application, but we've been getting emails asking for progress updates, so we decided to do a quick release now. Hopefully it's useful to people other than ourselves. -- Alex

16 years, 7 months

SC3-- Help !

by Fons Adriaensen

Hello all, (Hoping there's SC3 expert on the list) I haven't been using SC3 for some time, but now I have to revive some of my work from years ago. As before i'm controlling it from Emacs. The current release refuses to run my old code, apparently because it loads/stores synthdefs from/to ~/share/SuperCollider/synthdefs instead of ./synthdefs. Re-running all the definitions stores them in the new place and then things work. But the last thing I want is to have all synthdefs in one giant heap. They are always very specific to a particular composition, and I want to keeo them together with the other files for each work. Is there confituration option to make SC3 revert to the old behaviour ? More generally, I deeply dislike apps creating non-specific directories such as ~/share. If SC3 wants a per-login directory it should be ~/.SC3 or something like that. Ciao, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Wie der Mond heute Nacht aussieht ! Ist es nicht ein seltsames Bild ?

16 years, 7 months

JACK -d alsa -C hw:0,0

by Jens M Andreasen

When I connect to hw:0,0 the first application will grab hw:0,0,0 the next application will grab hw:0,0,1 and the third application will grab hw:0,0,2 ("mic", "front mic" and "line in" assuming this is the order they are selected in the mixer app) How do I do to make jackd understand that it should open all three of them instead of only one?

16 years, 7 months

Problem with g++, please please help me

by Christian

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I normally have no problem with c++ programming and am really ashamed to post it here, but I just can't find the bug and spent the whole day finding it and I'm really fed up. This is the error messages I get: ../src/Gui.cpp: In member function 'Text* Gui::createText(std::string, std::string, int, int, int, int, std::string, std::string)': ../src/Gui.cpp:65: error: no matching function for call to 'std::list<Text, std::allocator<Text> >::push_back(Text (&)(std::string, std::string, int, int, int, int, std::string, std::string))' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/include/g++-v4/bits/stl_list.h:875: note: candidates are: void std::list<_Tp, _Alloc>::push_back(const _Tp&) [with _Tp = Text, _Alloc = std::allocator<Text>] You can either get the sourcecode from: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/ksseq2008/ksinternalgui/?root=ksseq Or use this: /*************************************************************************** * Gui.h * * Nov 10, 2008 6:11:08 PM CET 2008 * Copyright 2008 Christian Loehnert * krampenschiesser(a)freenet.de ****************************************************************************/ /* * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ #ifndef GUI_H_ #define GUI_H_ #include <lo/lo.h> #include <string> #include <list> #include "Box.h" #include "Menu.h" #include "Control.h" #include "Text.h" #include "Button.h" using namespace std; class Gui { public: lo_address address; string sIp; string sPort; string sTextInputElement; string sTitle;//replaces applicationtab string sFocusBoxId; void init( list<Gui> *_guis ); /** * creates a new box and adds it to the list boxes * @param _name the name of the box * @param _superBox the box it corresponds to, empty if there's none * @param _x the x position * @param _y the y position * @param _w the width * @param _h the height * @param _shortCut its shortcut */ Box* createBox( string _name, string _superBox, int _x, int _y, int _w, int _h, string _shortCut ); /** * creates a new button and adds it to the list buttons. * @param _box the name of the box, the box must exist!!! theres no check * @param _caption the caption of the button */ Button* createButton( string _name, string _box, int _x, int _y, int _w, int _h, string _shortCut, string _caption ); /** * creates a new menu and adds it to the list menus * @param _caption the caption of the first menuitem * @param _value the value of the first menuitem */ Menu* createMenu( string _name, string _box, int _x, int _y, int _w, int _h, string _caption, int _value ); /** * creates a new control and adds it to the list controls * @param _min the minimum value of this controller * @param _max the maximum value of this controller * @param _increment the amount of steps which shall be incremented * @param _value the initialization value */ Control* createControl( string _name, string _box, int _x, int _y, int _min, int _max, int _increment, int _value ); /** * creates a text and adds it to the list texts */ Text* createText( string _name, string _box, int _x, int _y, int _w, int _h, string _shortCut, string _caption ); /** * Returns a pointer to this box. * @param _name the name of the box * @param _superBox its super box if exists * @return a pointer to the box */ list<Box>::iterator getBox( string _name, string _superBox ); /** * Returns a pointer to this button. * @param _name the name of this button * @param _box the box this button corresponds to * @return a pointer to the button */ list<Button>::iterator getButton( string _name, string _box ); /** * same as getButton */ list<Menu>::iterator getMenu( string _name, string _box ); /** * same as getButton */ list<Control>::iterator getControl( string _name, string _box ); /** * same as getButton */ list<Text>::iterator getText( string _name, string _box ); /** * Removes the give box * @param _name its name * @param _superBox its super box */ void removeBox( string _name, string _superBox ); /** * removes a button * @param _name * @param _box */ void removeButton( string _name, string _box ); /** * removes a menu * @param _name * @param _box */ void removeMenu( string _name, string _box ); /** * removes a control * @param _name * @param _box */ void removeControl( string _name, string _box ); /** * removes a text * @param _name * @param _box */ void removeText( string _name, string _box ); private: list<Gui> *guis; list<Button> buttons; list<Control> controls; list<Menu> menus; list<Box> boxes; list<Text> texts; }; #endif /* GUI_H_ */ /*************************************************************************** * Gui.cpp * * Nov 13, 2008 10:09:18 PM CET 2008 * Copyright 2008 Christian Loehnert * krampenschiesser(a)freenet.de ****************************************************************************/ /* * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ #include "../incl/Gui.h" Text* Gui::createText( string _name, string _box, int _x, int _y, int _w, int _h, string _shortCut, string _caption ) { Text text( string _name, string _box, int _x, int _y, int _w, int _h, string _shortCut, string _caption ); texts.push_back( text ); return &texts.back(); } Control* Gui::createControl( string _name, string _box, int _x, int _y, int _min, int _max, int _increment, int _value ) { Control control( _name, _box, _x, _y, _min, _max, _increment, _value ); controls.push_back( control ); return &controls.back(); } I don't get it, please help me! Christian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkomDYACgkQVC26eJ+o0+1FpACfaJFZuL1fP8HpfoWoX25SsbM2 yBoAn1Xif9SYLW/jpElBYYXHVInI88qv =HtHw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

16 years, 7 months

Re: [LAD] Merging alsa subdevices into multichannel

by Eliot Blennerhassett

On Thursday 20 November 2008 13:45:41 Jens M Andreasen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 09:00 +1300, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > > Hmmm. Sorry I can't help further, I only know how to set it up when it > > does work ;) > > Your code actually works just fine when used directly at the C-level. > Any chance of an annotated version - that reads a little like a brief > tutorial - of the 4 channel merger? I added a section here. http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/.asoundrc#Joining_devices_to_make_multich… My code is derived from the documentation of multi plugin found here http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html except instead of defining separate route and multi plugins, I nest all the plugin defs so that only one set of $CARD,$DEV,$SUBDEV parameters are required. As you see in the above example, if you have fixed devices the setup is much less verbose. regards -- -- Eliot Blennerhassett www.audioscience.com

16 years, 7 months

Re: [LAD] ALSA doumentation

by Hannu Savolainen

Dan Mills kirjoitti: > On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 14:54 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote: > > >> Audio (or MIDI) applications produce and consume audio streams. All they >> need to do is to tell what kind of stream (rate, format, etc) they want >> to play/record. They can also adjust their input/output volume or select >> the recording source if necessary. In this way the 'system tools' (or >> any application dedicated for these purposes) can be used to route and >> mix the >> > > That is a very simplistic view of audio applications, and while it fits > simple media players and even simple audio editors, it fails horribly in > a large and complex environment. Even something like a jack client > (which is superficially your produce and consume audio streams example), > often needs significant information about timing, DMA sample position > and the like to be able to do its thing. > Getting DMA sample position fits in the picture. You get it from the 'audio stream'. You don't need to bypass the 'system' and to talk directly to the device. > Clock source is certainly something that some subset of applications > should be legitimately concerned with, as are things like head amp gain, > phantom power switching and so on. By no means every app needs to care > about this stuff, but that is policy and should not be the business of > an API to define. > > The point is that this kind of details should be handled exclusively by programs dedicated for this kind of purposes. You may also need to go deep inside the hardware clock/timing if you are doing very special things like correlating measured brain/EEG signals with acoustic stimulus played through the sound card. >> However if the application also tries to interact with the hardware (by >> opening /dev/mixer in OSS or by doing similar things with ALSA) then >> shit will happen. This kind of interaction with hardware may mean that >> the application refuses to work with a pseudo/loopback device that hands >> the signal directly to Icecast server. >> > > That is what jackd or similar (that happen at a higher level then the > driver) are for, trying to do this at too low a level is always going to > cause pain and compatibility issues as the low level stuff needs to > support all the warts the hardware has. > > Consider also that not everything output from a soundcard is > automatically PCM audio, both AES3 and spdif have non audio modes and > both are useful upon occasion. > These too are attributes of the audio stream. The application simply needs to tell that it has an AC3 stream. >> All this just because the >> developer of the application wanted to add nice features to wrong place. >> > > Or because the developer NEEDED the audio interface in a particular mode > for anything to work (A digital surround encoder would be a reasonable > example - it needs to set the 'non audio' flag in the serial data stream > as otherwise the data makes no sense. > It's responsibility of the system to ensure that integrity of the stream is preserved (by telling it has a digital bitstream). However the application should not try to access the actual device to turn the audio/data bit on or off or to reconfigure the signal path to unity gain. > >>>> Equally well an audio player application should just open a connection >>>> to the audio device, set the rate/format and then just start to play. >>>> They should not try to do things like automatic unmuting the sound card. >>>> > > That is a policy issue and is probably untrue for at least some > applications and use cases: A softphone that 'just works' for the common > cases is impossible without the ability to set microphone routing and > gain (Otherwise you end up with a lot of faffing about to get the thing > to work). > There is nothing wrong with this. For example the _audio_ API of OSS has ioctl calls for selecting the recording source and level. In addition the sofphone may need to open the microphone (audio) device so that virtual mixer is bypassed (also for security reasons). > Now I may take the view that ideally the softphone should stay out of > setting that sort of thing, but if I was distributing one, I would like > to have the thing work out of the box in the common cases (it cuts down > on support calls). > Not at all. The application just needs to use the right API (subset) instead of trying to peek/poke the hardware in some random way. OTOH a softphone application that always wants to switch the input/output to microphone/headset may be a pain in the ass. > > The thing is, in professional audio (I do theatre sound for a living), > the sort of thing fons in doing is just not that uncommon, lots of > speakers (on delay lines), lots of dynamically changing routing, a feed > to the OB truck (at a different sample rate), positioning audio with > dynamically changing delays and levels, hundreds of cues (that can > dynamically reconfigure routing and desk setup).... Being able to > control the interfaces at a low level (and on the fly from automation > scripts) is **IMPORTANT**. > IMHO it's important that applications developed for given tasks are kept focused on the that particular task only. An application that takes care of automation can trigger other applications to do the right things at the right moment. For example to send SMS to your wife just before the final curtain (so that she can turn the coffee machine on just before you arrive). It can trigger sound/light effects or run scripts that reconfigures this and that between acts. It can send MIDI messages to move the sliders on the mixing console. However it's not a good idea to stuff this application with all possible functionality such as audio players/recorders, EQ, limiters/compresors, audio analyzers and so on. If they are in separate programs you can use the best available programs for each purpose instead of sticking with some sticky secondary tools of othewise fine automator program. Best regards, Hannu

16 years, 7 months

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