Linux-audio-user December 2003

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[linux-audio-user] Suitable distro for audio works

by Olivier

first post (or so) here so Hi everyone. Is there a distro out there that is best suited for audio work ? I am currently downloading agnula's work but was wondering was you guys were using. As an all purpose desktop system I use mdk 9.2. There is a large number of audio apps contributed for it but before going down that route or another, I thought I'd take some advice. I'd like to use software synth and a sequencer with a midi keyboard I have got at home. Thanks all ! Olivier

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[linux-audio-user] Getting cs46xx to work

by David Baron

Alsa recommnds this one with a DMan2044 PCI card (4-in, 4-out). The insmod fails with "no such device" Autodetections call for AGOPO Maestro or es1968, also Maestro. If I accept these, they install but naturally do not play.

21 years

[linux-audio-user] Announce: Gnomoradio 0.7

by Jim Garrison

Hello, Last night, we released the first development release of Gnomoradio. Gnomoradio is a peer-to-peer music playing system that can read Creative Commons licenses and legally share files based on them. It can play mp3 files as well as ogg's. The program is currently available in source form for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. http://gnomoradio.org/ Download URL: http://gnomoradio.org/pub/devel/gnomoradio-0.7.tar.gz Jim

21 years

[linux-audio-user] Audio cd recording "on the fly"?

by Emiliano Grilli

Hello, I wonder if anyone has a quick solution for recording audio data directly to cd writer... Bye -- Emiliano Grilli Linux user #209089 http://www.emillo.net

21 years

[linux-audio-user] Some questions

by David Baron

1. Are alsa drivers multi-client? (Two applications can read/write simultaneously to the in or out--i.e. a patch controller and a sequencer doing notes). 2. Can dummy MIDI devices be installed (virmidi?) to be used for pipelining midi-out from one program to midi-in to another or for overcoming single-client problems (Windows examples MidiYoke, MidiMatrix, Hubi's). 3. Seeing as wine sessions successfully enumerate the MIDI devices and actually played to one! but no native program such as Rosegarden has--KDE has a MIDI-mapper dialog similar to windows. Must they be set up there from /dev/ mid0 .... references? 4. Jack has been recommended. What precisely is this and how does this work? 5. Can the recommended Ardour/Jack rpm for Madrake be used on Debian?

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[linux-audio-user] Ardour/Jack package

by David Baron

OK, got it. Install fine with the same locale error but it's all English anyway. I have no working audio right now. When I do, what do I do with jack?

21 years

[linux-audio-user] Re:Compiling!

by David Baron

While the audio and MIDI still do not work on my linux, I downloaded a few packages to look at them. Gmorgan, Audour, etc. Once they FINALLY untar, the seemingly simple and by now familiar: ./configure; make; make install. NO GO. 1. Configure--usually looking for a certain automake version. This test is in error, but easy enough to fix up. The version string is defined up front. Edite to what you have on your system. Now, if you've installed any needed libraries, configure should run. 2. Make--complains about locale, defaults at least, requesting en_us, etc. Only problem with this is that my environment IS set that way. Then it complains about recursive directory references and aborts. A subdirectory with the same name of one of its ancestors is not necessarily a recursive reference so this is also a programming error. So I rerun with a do-it-anyway option -B. Still gets to some point and aborts. 3. Make install--actually the same comments apply. After that, obviously will not install what was not compiled.

21 years

[linux-audio-user] Mandrake 9.2 and kmix

by Howard Sanner

Greetings, I didn't see anything about this in the archives. For about two I've been using Mandrake 8.1 with Kmix 1.90, Broadcast 2000, and an Ensoniq ES1370 sound card to make audio recordings. It has worked fine. Over the weekend I installed Mandrake 9.2 on a fresh hard disk. Then I installed Broadcast 2000 from the Mandrake 8.1 distribution. Sound playback works fine. I can also record. However, nothing I do with Kmix will change the record level, up or down. The default level is quite low, with peaks hitting around -25 dBFS or so. The source is an FM broadcast from a consumer receiver (i.e., -10 dB output). I logged in as root, set all sliders to their maximum, and saved that as the default level. I'm sure I'm doing something very simple and stupid wrong, but I can't figure out what it is. Many thanks. Howard Sanner flagstad(a)mindspring.com

21 years

[linux-audio-user] Re: Fwd: [sos] Linux audio apps in the real world

by Daniel James

> Apparently there is a studio called Mirror Image that is using > Ardour to record with, and I was wondering if you had specific > details... Yes - I've written a feature on Mirror Image which I'm told should be in the February issue of Sound on Sound, which will actually come out around the second week of January. The interview is with Ron Parker, who is responsible for the Linux setup there. Mirror Image is in Minneapolis, Minnesota - I don't know how far that is from you. > I'm building my next computer, and I'll be getting a small digital > board... either the Yamaha 01V96 or the Tascam DM-24 (I'm stuck on > that choice, but leaning towards the 01V96). If I knew for sure > that Ardour worked well, I may give it a try, but if all I could > expect were alot of time consuming problems, I'd go with something > else... What I hear from regular Ardour users is that the program is approaching the stability required for day in day out use, but some tweaking is still required. Building a Linux audio workstation yourself is a learning experience, and if you don't want to invest the time to learn about the technology then it may not be for you. However, Linux audio systems may require a smaller financial investment than proprietary solutions, by way of compensation. I'd say going down the DIY route is great for people who want to learn and can invest the time but don't have so much money. If you have money but no time, you can pay a consultant to build any system you want. If you have no time to spare and no money, then I guess you need to sort that out first before you can do any kind of recording work, because any solution is going to require an investment of both time and money. Personally, I find that I get a lot out of my interaction with the Linux audio community that I wouldn't get from a traditional software vendor. I recommend that you join the Linux Audio Users mailing list as a first step to find out the kind of things that people are doing: http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/subscribelau.php3 Cheers Daniel

21 years

[linux-audio-user] Recommendations for Low Latency Kernel

by The Other

12/26/03 Hello All, I'm currently running Mandrake 9.1 on a PII-350MHz with 128MB RAM box. If you have any suggestions for a low latency kernel geared to music applications, please provide them. My background is WIN95B running Cakewalk Pro Audio 8.04, Harmony Assistance (latest version) from Myriad-Online, and SEKd's Samplitude Studio 4.0 through a Sound Blaster Live! Value card. Nearly all of this hardware and software is circa 1998. In addition to the low latency kernel, I would like to have Linux software for MIDI sequencing and score printing. My printing needs will be very special later on as I would like to use TeX or some variant to print non-Western European notes, such as E# or A##. If you also have recommendations for MIDI sequencing with audio recorded tracks in one program (like Cakewalk) and software that will take MIDI input to generate a score, please provide them as well. Thank you for your help, 'The Other' Stephen Stubbs.

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Linux-audio-user December 2003