Hi all,
a short announcement for those who might plan to do a presentation at the
next Linux Audio Conference in April 2005 in Karlsruhe: The paper templates
for OpenOffice and LaTeX are now available at:
http://www.zkm.de/lac/downloads.shtml
We are a little late with this for which I am sorry, but I hope you were not
blocked in writing your papers. Reminder: The deadline for paper submissions
(as well as music, workshops, project notes, posters) is January 10th, 2005.
For more details about the conference and the calls for paper etc, please
visit the web page at http://www.zkm.de/lac.
Greetings,
Götz Dipper
Matthias Nagorni
Frank Neumann
Hi (Takashi?)!
The OSS emulation in ALSA is slightly wrong regarding number of
requested buffers. To quote from my own "notes to self" from own source:
/** Setting up the soundcard for CD-HiFidelity Stereo
*
*/
audio.path = "/dev/dsp";
audio.speed = SAMPLERATE;
audio.format = AFMT_S16_LE;
audio.is_stereo = TRUE;
// 3 buffers of 256 bytes == 3 * 64 (16bit) stereo samples
// 0x0002 buffers == n - 1, although Alsa (mis)interpretes oss buffers
// == n!!! Use 0x0003!
//
// 0008 bytes == log2(number of bytes in buffer), 2^8 == 256 == 64
// stereo samples;
audio.bufsize = 0x00030008;
... so ALSA UNDERSHOOTS the number of buffers BY ONE (which of course
will not work for RT-people on the edge.)
mvh // Jens M andreasen
PS: Thanks to the mdk10.1 beeing distributed on DVD by LinuxFormat this
month, work is ongoing for a clean alsa solution of my handyworks ...
DS
On Monday 22 November 2004 18:07, Hans Fugal wrote:
> Is there an app that will dump midi events in human-readable format to
> stdout (or a file, or gui window, whatever)? Preferably it would work on
> SMF as well as realtime (ALSA), and have filters to filter out
> undesirables (e.g. active sensing or perhaps sysex).
The following utilities are included on newest alsa-utils packages. Both can
print the incoming MIDI events as human readable text in realtime.
amidi (using ALSA raw MIDI interface)
amidi is a command-line utility which allows to receive and send SysEx
(system exclusive) data from/to external MIDI devices. It can also
send any other MIDI commands.
-d, --dump
Prints data received from the MIDI port as hexadecimal bytes.
Active Sensing bytes (FEh) will not be shown, unless the -a
option has been given.
arecordmidi (using ALSA sequencer)
arecordmidi is a command-line utility that records a Standard MIDI File
from one or more ALSA sequencer ports.
-d,--dump
Shows the events received as text on standard output.
For SMF files, both Fluidsynth and Timidity can do so.
$ timidity -idvvv music.mid
$ fluidsynth -v music.mid
You can also try my little utilities in C and Pascal, including a midi monitor
utility with GUI interface for Kylix that you can find here:
http://perso.wanadoo.es/plcl/
Regards,
Pedro
Is there an app that will dump midi events in human-readable format to
stdout (or a file, or gui window, whatever)? Preferably it would work on
SMF as well as realtime (ALSA), and have filters to filter out
undesirables (e.g. active sensing or perhaps sysex).
If such a beast doesn't exist, I'll probably hack something up for
myself. If I do, would there be interest in my releasing it?
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Hi,
Another RTC question that is absolutely unrelated to the other one
(promise ;-).
Been poking at a PPC based linux system lately. Now, if I've been correctly
informed (and my photagrafik memory isn't playing tricks on me) the Apple PPC
platforms lacks an RTC compatible device.
Major stumbling block... how does one accomplish an high resolution timer in
this environment, any ideas?
What does a Mac use?
Regards,
Robert
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Hi!
I am proud to announce Polypaudio 0.7. Changes are too many to count
(nearly every single file was touched since 0.6)
An excerpt:
- ability to publish credentials in X11 root window (like arts does)
- IPv6 support
- Esound backend (use polypaudio on top of an esound daemon)
- excessive commenting
- new tool pacmd
- integer only resampler (use this if you have a slow CPU without much
FP power. The quality is quite bad, but it is fast)
- real support for ulaw/alaw
- tons and tons of cleanups and fixes
- new command "load-sample-dir-lazy"
paman 0.6, pavumeter 0.4 and xmms-polyp 0.5 have been released as
well.
Drivers for libao, Xine, MPlayer, GStreamer are available in their
respective upstream CVS or SVN servers.
The PortAudio driver is still in the works.
Lennart
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Hi everyone,
Simply put:
QjackCtl 0.2.13 has been released!
This is yet another dot-release, nothing outstanding. Taken straight from
the ChangeLog:
- Main window is now properly minimized instead of simply hidden when the
system tray icon is not available nor opted in (as suggested by Florian
Schmidt).
- Some informational status items are now updated 10 times less frequently
(e.g. CPU Load, Sample Rate, Buffer Size, Realtime Mode, etc.), lowering
the CPU burden of most probably redundant status updates.
- XRUN detection and statistics are being conditionally included if
jack_get_xrun_delayed_usecs() is available (as of JACK 0.99.7+ CVS).
- Fixed ancient bug on client shutdown event handling, which was invoking
the xrun notification handler by mistake.
- Support for maximum scheduling delay status added (EXPERIMENTAL); this
relies on jack_get_max_delayed_usecs() function availability at configure
time, depending on a Lee Revell's non-official JACK patch.
- Patchbay Activate button is now a toggle button widget, allowing the
deactivation of the current patchbay profile.
- Reset-status icon has been changed to a simple red circle instead of
previous one which was much like a power-switch symbol.
- Preset selection has been added to the context menu.
Check it out from the usua place:
http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
Enjoy.
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Greetings:
I've added another recording to my "music made with Ardour" page, a
guitar duet this time. It's a performance of an old Jimmy Dorsey tune
called Maria Elena, you can check it out here:
http://linux-sound.org/ardour-songs.html
Best,
dp
Hullo, there,
I've got a Tascam us428 audio/midi interface/control surface, and
I've had a heck of a time trying to get it working. It seems to
work alright if I use the device directly with xmms, but when I
try to start jack, my system hangs. Sometimes it waits a while
before hanging, sometimes it stops immediately when I start jack.
I happed to have a tail -f of syslog running this most recent
time, and noticed that at the same time it stopped working, the
message:
kernel: ALSA: ../../alsa-kernel/usb/usx2y/usbusx2yaudio.c: \
205: -11
came up. Looking at that file in the source, the error happens in
function usX2Y_urb_submit(). Here's the line:
...
if ((err = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC)) < 0) {
snd_printk("%i\n", err); <-- This is line 205
return err;
}
...
I have only basic programming skills, and to me it seems like the
function is doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing, and
printing the error code -11. But I have no idea what that means,
or I could be completely wrong. I'm using kernel version 2.4.26
with the low latency and preemption patches. Thanks for any help.
spencer
Hi guys,
Trying to move to a 2.6 kernel here. More specifically I've tried the kernel
bundled with Mandrake10.1. I'm not expecting any lowlatency miracles but I
was expecting it to "work".
The error I get is (when starting MusE which needs RTC):
cannot set tick on /dev/rtc: Inappropriate ioctl for device
rtc is there. Apparently something is wrong with it. I googled a bit and it
seems this has been up here before, with other kernels, so it doesn't seem
like an Mandrake issue.
Anybody know what this is and what to do about it?
/Robert
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