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[linux-audio-dev] "Borealis" desktop sounds theme v.0.8 now available

by ico＠fuse.net

Hi all, Just wanted to let you know that the version 0.8 of the "Borealis" desktop sound theme is now available. For more info and for downloads please visit the usual place: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=12584 Also, for those of you who like desktop eye-candy ;-), more stuff can be found here: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=13876 (superkaramba desktop monitoring tool with minimal cpu footprint) http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9049 (improved klaptop icons) Best wishes, Ico

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Jackit-devel] qsynth and qjackctl both freeze

by martin rumori

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:33:30PM +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > martin rumori wrote: > >> Is anybody out there using an ATI Radeon card with DRI and DRM ? > > > > jackd with realtime-lsm from the cmdline is fine, with qjackctl it > > fails. qjackctl with realtime but no-mlock works fine. > > > > Either with no-mlock, LD_ASSUME_KERNEL or whatever switch I've been trying > to reproduce those nasty lockups some of you are suffering. > > Using qt-3.3 on kde-3.2, it that matters. > > I think we're narrowing around drm, realtime mode mlock and the 2.6 > kernel, are we? appears like that. as soon as i switch to the vesa driver (direct rendering off) there is no problem. no problem, too, on my other machine with nvidia binary driver. on my machine, it's qt-3.2.3(-mt) from debian unstable. bests, rm -ri

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-dev] How does ASIO work?

by Maarten de Boer

Hello, I am preparing some slides about Linux audio, and while comparing Linux with Windows, I have been wondering how the ASIO drivers manage to obtain low latency on MS Windows, an operating system that does not seem capable of low latency in any other way. So what tricks did Steinberg come up with to get around that? I'd like to be able to say why the Linux approach is better/cleaner. Maarten

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-dev] snd-hdsp oddities

by ico＠fuse.net

Hi all, I am using the latest 2.6.7 kernel (tried also 2.6.5) but with hdsp I cannot select anything lower than 1024x2 buffer settings in jackd without having massive xruns. Asoundrc is fine, modprobe.conf is fine too. The hdsp runs fine with the aforementioned settings but anything lower simply is horrible. The kernel is patched with all kinds of mm patches but I am not currently using -r option nor the realtime module (a bit scared of freezing my machine :-). Is this the best one can do in user-space? Any help is greatly appreciated! Best wishes, Ico

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-dev] LSM 2004 music theme: July 8th/9th

by Paul Davis

I thought it might worth mentioning 2 days of intense LAD-friendly talks at the Libre Software Meeting on July 7th and 8th. The program will include: Dave Phillips on "The Scene" Yann Orlarey on Faust Takashi Iwai on ALSA Steve Harris on RDF & Audio Julien Villain on Gestural/Listening training Paul Davis on Ardour (talk + 2hr workshop) Julien Ottavi on APODIO Damien Cirotteau on AGNULA If you're in the Southwest corner of France and want to come and fill the rooms just a little more, not to mention sample of the "young upstart" red and white wines of the region (quite a political battle in the region, apparently), check with lsm2004.abul.org. A glass of decent wine will be considered partial downpayment on your copy of the Ardour manual :) --p

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-dev] ANNOUNCE: qjackctl 0.2.9 released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi everyone, It's been a while, although this time there's not much. Just minor fixes, nothing very outstanding. However here it is, a new public release for QjackCtl, the little Qt (cutie:) application to control the JACK sound server daemon, specific for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure. Check it out from the usual place: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net >From the changelog: - Patchbay socket dialog client and plug list option items are now properly escaped as regular expressions. - JACK callbacks are now internally mapped to QCustomeEvent's instead of using the traditional pipe notifications. - The system tray popup menu is now featured as a context menu on the main application window too. - The reset status option is now included in the system tray popup menu. - Server stop command button now enabled during client startup interval; this makes it possible to stop the server just in case the client can't be activated for any reason. - Top level sub-windows are now always raised and set with active focus when shown to visibility. Hope you enjoy. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-dev] Traps in floating point code

by Erik de Castro Lopo

Hi all, People who play around with floating point code (especially on x86) quickly learn about the evils of comparing the equality of one floating point value with another. There are other related evils with floating point one of which I was bitten by just recently and I thought I'd share it with y'all. If it helps just one person from spending 20 odd hours chasing an elusive bug like I did, I will have acheived something. The evil I speak of is the difference between 32 and 64 bit floating point representations (types float and double) and the x86 CPU's internal 80 bit representation. The most common trap is something like: if (x == y) do_something (); where x and y are say double flotaing point numbers. Also lets just say that the value of x is already in the CPU's FPU register as a result of a previous operation and the other y, is not. What happens is that the result of the previous operation can have a full 80 bits (part mantissa, part exponent and a sign bit) of precision while y, loaded from memory does not have this extra precision. The comparison therefore fails, even though when printed out (or when compiler optimisation is switched off) the two values are equal. This is the reason why the above if statement is better written as: if (fabs (x - y) < 1e-20) do_something (); The reason I am writing this email is that I was recently bitten by a similar problem. I was keeping a running index into a table, and keeping the integer part separate from the fractional part which was kept in a double floating point: double fractional = 0.0, increment = 0.1; int integer = 0; for (;;) { /* Bunch of other code. */ fractional += increment ; integer += lrint (floor (fractional)); fractional -= floor (fractional); } The above code can produce very odd results for certain values of increment. The problem in this case manifested itself in the integer/fractional losing counts when compiled with gcc-3.4 while the same code had worked perfectly with previous versions of the compiler. The problem seems to be caused by the fact that the other code in the loop was pushing at least some of the relevant values out of the FPU stack into double floating point variables and that when they were reloaded they had lost precision. The fix in this case was this: for (;;) { /* Bunch of other code. */ fractional += increment ; rem = fmod (fractional, 1.0); /* floating point modulus */ integer += lrint (round (fractional - rem)); fractional = rem; } which is far more robust. HTH, Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo nospam(a)mega-nerd.com (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "The X-files is too optimistic. The truth is not out there." -- Anthony Ord

21 years, 4 months

Re: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] snd-hdsp oddities

by ico＠fuse.net

> > From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai(a)suse.de> > Date: 2004/07/02 Fri PM 01:15:46 GMT > To: <ico(a)fuse.net> > CC: <alsa-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, > <linux-audio-dev(a)music.columbia.edu> > Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] snd-hdsp oddities > > At Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:56:06 +0000, > <ico(a)fuse.net> wrote: > > > > > Shouting "DON'T USE 2.6" isn't a good solution. Though, we need to > > > inform to "set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL as a workaround"... > > > > Pardon my ignorance but how does one do this? As a part of the > > config before compiling kernel or? > > No, just set the environment variable like > export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 > (better globally) and start jack. That's all. > > In this way, glibc chooses LinuxThreads instead of NPTL. > > > Also, any ideas on the odd behavior of the hdspmixer? (see my other post) > > Not checked yet... Did hdspmixer work on any versions correctly on > your system? > Well not really since this notebook is only a couple months old so I never had the chance to test anything pre 1.0.2. But anything 1.0.2 and greater behaves the same. Ico

21 years, 4 months

Re: [linux-audio-dev] snd-hdsp oddities

by ico＠fuse.net

> Shouting "DON'T USE 2.6" isn't a good solution. Though, we need to > inform to "set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL as a workaround"... Pardon my ignorance but how does one do this? As a part of the config before compiling kernel or? Also, any ideas on the odd behavior of the hdspmixer? (see my other post) Ico

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-dev] Utility for recording audio track with midi clock

by Gerrit Niestijl

Hi, A friend of mine owns a Roland vs-1680 harddiskrecorder. It has a feature that allows for recording and playing back a midi clock signal alongside the audio tracks. This makes it possible to create a tempo map with a (hardware) sequencer, record it on the vs-1680, and use it to keep the sequencer in sync with subsequently recorded audio tracks . We work together on a project, and i would like to be able to record and play back the audio mix from the vs-1680 to my computer together with the midi clock data (he takes his machine home to work on the audio part). That way i can work on the sequences on my mpc1000, and play back the audio whith the sequences synced midi clock slave. I believe there is currently no linux app that can do that, so i am considering to try to create a utility for it. But i have little programming experience and none regarding alsa and jack, so i would like feedback on my ideas. My plan is to write a little program that opens 2 midi ports (in and out) and 2 jack ports (in and out). The program wil monitor the midi input port for midi clock messages. It will write zero's to the jack output port but when it recieves a midi clock message it will write a value of 1 to the jack port. This way i can store the midi clock signal in a audio file, for example with ecasound. I know, this is ugly! For playback i would have the program monitor the jack input port and output a midi clock message when a sample value of 1 passes by. I hope this explains my plan clear enough. I have looked at the example programs for alsa and jack and to me it looks like i could copy and paste something together, that could be my lack of experience. What do you think? Is this possebly going to work or do i overlook major difficulties? Any advice would be very welcome! -- Greetings, Gerrit

21 years, 4 months

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